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Cramer’s Speculation Friday picks over the past five and a half months have beaten the important benchmarks, he told viewers today, even during a period when “the market shot the lights out.”
The top performers? Advanced Micro Devices [AMD
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] and Starent Networks [STAR
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], which are up 164%, 52% and 80%, respectively.
Cramer first blessed AMD on Nov. 14, 2008, and then again on May 19 of this year. The stock shot up on Thursday after news hit the wires that Intel [INTC
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] would be paying AMD $1.25 billion as part of an antitrust settlement. Investors who followed Cramer’s advice from the start earned triple-digit returns.
The Mad Money host gave a nod to 3Com, a networking-equipment company, back on Sept. 25. Then just this week Hewlett-Packard [HPQ
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Lastly, there’s Starent Networks, which Cramer recommended in May. On Oct. 13, Cisco Systems [CSCO
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What’s the takeaway?
“It pays to take a chance on broken stocks,” Cramer said, “as long as the companies behind them are intact.”
That’s the essence of speculation, and he recommended that every investor give it a try.
As long as they do the homework first.
Crame's charitable trust owns Cisco Systems.
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