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Cramer's Lightning Round: Blackstone is 'too much of a black box'

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  • It's that time again! "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he's giving his answers to callers' stock questions at rapid speed.

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Blackstone's year-to-date stock performance.

Blackstone: "I am tempted to say yes because I like Blackstone, but the problem is I don't know what's in the trust. So, therefore, it's too much of a black box for me, so I'm not going to go for it."

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Sunrun's year-to-date stock performance.

Sunrun: "The solar stocks are tricky, and I'm not recommending any stocks on Mad Money of companies that are losing money. It's just too hard these days."

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Extra Space's year-to-date stock performance.

Extra Space: "No, no. If I'm going to be there, I'm going to be in PSA. PSA is the better of those two."

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Fifth Third's year-to-date stock performance.

Fifth Third: "No, we can't. I mean, as good as Fifth Third is, we can't. And the reason we can't is because the regional banks are about to report, and I don't think the numbers are going to go up, I think the numbers are going to go down, so therefore it won't work."

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Dominion Energy's year-to-date stock performance.

Dominion Energy: "You know, look. It's not that well-run to begin with...I am concerned about the dividends, so I'm going to take a hard pass on Dominion."

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FMC's year-to-date stock performance.

FMC: "It's a great ag play, it really is. And I think that it's one of those feed the world plays that is out of step with the market, but we're always going to have to feed the world, I like FMC."

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BP's year-to-date stock performance.

BP: "No, I don't want you in BP...I like the independents in the Permian, that's the way to go."

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Paramount's year-to-date stock performance.

Paramount: "That is the balance sheet from Hades, my friend, and we're not going to go with it."

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