Cramer's Lightning Round: Merck is a buy

• 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.

Corning's year-to-date stock performance.

Corning: "They reported a disappointing quarter. In this market, it stays disappointing, there's just no bounce, maybe next year."

Vertiv's year-to-date stock performance.

Vertiv: "I think it's a buy."

Texas Instruments' year-to-date stock performance.

Texas Instruments: "Just hold to it. Now, they are very shareholder friendly, but then again, they do have a lot of industrial that is not doing that well...You can hold onto it, but understand you're not going to make a lot of money in it right not because that was a really terrible last quarter."

Merck's year-to-date stock performance.

Merck: "Yes it is...I think Merck is doing very, very well."

Algonquin Power & Utilities' year-to-date stock performance.

Algonquin Power & Utilities: "Yes, the answer is yes. I see a lot of stocks that have come down to the point where I think that the utilities are buys."

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