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Oct.23
5:36 PM ET
Tuesday, 23 Oct 2007
Stop Trading!: Mortgage Insurers 'on the Ropes'

Mortgage insurers like MGIC Investment MTG and PMI Group PMI were down about 10% with an hour left in trading on Tuesday. Cramer said these stocks “give the appearance of going down every day.”

That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise after a Lehman Brothers report saying, “credit is clearly unraveling,” “delinquent loans are worrisome” and “the estimates are for big losses.”

“These companies are on the ropes,” Cramer said.

MGIC [MTG  Loading...      ()   ] and PMI [PMI  Loading...      ()   ] have “sliced through their book value,” which is usually a bottom for these stocks because they’re supposed to be cash. Now with lowered earnings, they’re expensive on a multiple basis.

Cramer’s solution? These companies need to issue equity.

Cramer also admitted his latest buy call on Coach [COH  Loading...      ()   ] was off. COH just reported a disappointing quarter. “Something’s wrong,” Cramer said, and the blame can’t be placed on sectorwide problems in the retail.

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