Unfortunately its not all earnings weve got to deal with next week. So whats your game plan . Let me show you mine. Ive been saying that the fed is prepping us right now for a december rate hike, a big reason why this market cant get out of its own way and feels so sloppy. More on that later. Now, fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer will speak monday, and hes been a major rate hike proponent. I bet his new speech will cause this market to get hit. Time hes opened his mouth in 2016. But fischers words will inevitably help some stocks, notably the banks, which benefit from higher rates, and bank of america reports monday morning. The stock has been advancing of late, was up nicely today. Even though its still dirt cheap, i have to wonder if bank of america has gotten ahead of itself thanks to the excellent earnings today from jpmorgan and citigroup. Some terrific pin action in all the banks today. If bank of america gets hit, it might be the perfect way to play that rate hike that does come in netflix. And unlike the last few times that this company has reported, the expectations have at last been ratcheted down to where i think they can be beaten. Longer term i remain a believer in netflix but i accept there could be hiccups along the way. Ibm reports too. We need to see some Revenue Growth there, not just earnings growth. Thats what would break the stock out of its slump. Again, cheap stock but no catalyst without top line, not bottom line increases. Earlier today bank of America Merrill upgraded dominos from sell to buy. My view . v 140 points when patty doyle came in as ceo. And this particular analyst has been fighting the stock with a sell rating. I say ill advised. When we get results from dominos on tuesday, i think it will deliver, as it so often has. But the fact that the stock has moved up well in advance makes me concerned that it might not rally too much on a good number. And this johnnycomelately analyst to the story, he could end up being disappointed. Goldman sachs reports tuesday morning. Its been trading up because, again, part of the pin action of corporate finance, they did well. Those are golden sweet spots. Ive been saying this stock and frankly the whole group are cheap and should be bought. Candidly, it hasnt worked out that way. Ive been too bullish in the group. However, i still think that goldmans value is both compelling and worth waiting for when the fed finally does raise rates. You know i adore johnson johnson. I talk about it all the time. Its a conservative, well run institution. Its been a fabulous win every time you bought the stock at a discount to its all time high. I like that j j is down over 8 bucks from its high, most consistent of the drug companies. So i suggest you buy some j j, maybe into the Stanley Fischer selloff, and then if reports are good on tuesday, buy some more. Intel has been a remarkable performer of late. The stock has been great. The company itself is just doing okay. That is in no small part because Ceo Brian Krzanich is working hard to ensure that you get some value out of this company, and its levered more than just to the personal computer. The stock is up nearly 9 for the year. I still think theres even more value to be unlocked, and i close. Im looking forward to it. Ive got my eye on a bunch of companies wednesday like abbott labs and morganstanley before the opening along with American Express and lam research after the close. Abbotts closing in on the st. Jude med acquisition, and i think its solidifying its position in the medical device space. I expect ceo miles white should have a lot of good things to say about the new abbott labs after the acquisition and margin upside from that st. Jude deal. Next up, morganstanley has gone out of favor among the financials of late even though its so well run. Ceo james gorman is doing a good job. It reports and the other banks have continued to run, morganstanley might be a steal here, but thats only if that other scenario plays out. After the close, weve got American Express and lam research, and both have become very controversial of late. One of the things i like best about citigroups quarter today, a terrific one by the way it really had the stock running until a lateday turn was the growth of the costco credit card franchise that it got from American Express. I think it was a huge mistake the Company Needs to get with the times, start spending more money on tech, keep up with all the great payments and Credit Companies coming out of silicon valley. American express has been a dreadful stock. I dont see what can turn it around shy of warren buffett, who already has a substantial position, buying more. However, i dont think thats in the cards. I know it seems cheap. Not biting. Lam research was trying to merge with kla tencor to create a semiconductor powerhouse recently, but the deal was blocked by the government. So what does an independent lam look like . Samsungs woes on lams book of business given that samsung is the largest buyer of Semiconductor Equipment . Were going to have to listen and find out. The airlines came alive this week when delta announced it would not allow a lot of new capacity next year. American immediately jumped on that news, but i wonder if it will pledge not to expand its fleet too when we hear from it on thursday. If so, that stock is going to continue to rally. But remember i like luv, luv, southwest. The most consistent industrial we follow is a company we dont thursday. I think its worth buying this one if it falls before that quarter on a fischer selloff. We have reiterated several time its so consistent. Next up, my charitable trust, which you can follow along at actionalertsplus. Com owns a substantial position in the drugstore walgreens. Oh, boy, its been a huge disappointment lately. Some of that is because its so in limbo as it tries to buy rite aid, symbol rad,and it looks like the federal trade commission might block the deal. At this point my hope is actually that the company walks away and starts buying bacs it is time for walgreens to fish or cut bait. Steady eddie verizon also reports thursday morning and we want to hear what its plans are for yahoo, which i still think it will buy despite this email security breach. And we want to know more about aol. Nothing ive heard so far moves the needle. Its still just a Telco Company in my eyes. But in my eyes, verizon is an Interest Rate play too. I dont expect it to rally as we get closer to the fed meeting because when you raise rates, the stocks that pay good yields nevertheless, it does represent a compelling value with a safe 4. 5 yield. No one ever got hurt on a verizon. After the close, we get results from two giants, microsoft and schlumberger. I expect both to give you some good news. Microsoft could have some expanding margins. I want to hear much more about the business of the cloud now that they bought linkedin. How do they intend to monetize linkedin . I keep hearing about great things from azure. Thats their cloud platform. I feel like the more we hear, the more well want to buy. Theyre going to give us a great read on whether this oil rally at 50 bucks is for real. Theyve been downbeat about the short term price of crude. Could schlumberger turn a little bit more bullish . If they do, expect oil to break out. But the inverse could be true too. Friday is tad worrisome frankly. We get earnings from two companies with sagging stocks of late, mcdonalds and General Electric. We know that mcdonalds, its kind of become a what have you done for me lately stock, and the answer is maybe not that much. That said, with a Balance Sheet yield, i wouldnt give up on mickey ds. We own General Electric for the charitable trust, and it too has turned into a very tough stock save for that 3 yield. G. E. Has not one but two challenged businesses of late, aerospace and oil and gas. I hope the company can talk more about returning capitalist shareholders and less about the weakness in either end market. I believe the latter awaits, and i wouldnt be surprised if g. E. s forecast causes analysts to cut numbers. We like it longer term more than short term. Finally theres honeywell. Ceo dave cote told us that 2017 is looking like a good year. I would buy honeywell if it goes down ahead of the quarter just based on what we heard last night, especially since its among the cheapest of the industrials after that brutal selloff. So the bottom line, let the wife complain. Next week is heavy lifting. I got my alarm set for 3 30 a. M. And my work cut out for me. Lets go to jeremy in maryland. Jeremy. Caller booyah, jim cramer. Booyah. Caller how are you doing this friday . Im doing all right. I just want to say good luck this weekend. Ill be wearing my burgundy and gold. Im not too far from fedex field. But i wanted to say good luck. In fairness, i want to tell you i will be at the game, but i will respect the house. I will wear a muted green shirt. I already picked it out. Its a tulane shirt. No one will think im wearing eagles clothing at fedex field because i respect the house as people should when they come to the lake. They should respect oh, im sorry. Whats the stock . Caller my question is with the merger of Johnson Control and tyco now complete under stock symbol jci, where do you see this company and stock going in the future . I like this. We got to surrender the short term. The short term, it is adjusting to the idea that the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates. The longer term in this combination is bringing up tremendous value. Ruth in washington, ruth. Caller hi, jim. How are you . Im good, ruth. How about you . Caller good. I want to thank you so much for teaching and helping the small i think youre just brilliant. Wow, thank you. I wish my mom were around. Caller youre welcome. My question is about baby boomers. As they grow older, as they age, they need more joint replacements. And i know that there are some Strong Companies like zimmer and others in this group. Yes. Caller but recently you spoke about conformis, and this company uses a customized fit of the joint, which sounds very good to me, but the stock has not done well. No. Ruth, its too speculative. It didnt have that great a quarter. Zimmer biomed is the one weve been focused on. We understand 127 stock can go in and go out, but i do think longer term that zimmer is a safer stock to own, and i think thats what we really should have in mind. I want to go to mark in wisconsin, please. Mark. Stock i owned, roserock mid stream, Ticker Symbol rrms, was acquired by semgroup, Ticker Symbol semg. I was wondering what your thoughts were on the acquisition and Going Forward is semgroup a buy, sell, or hold . Its actually good. Its got a 5 yield. I like it. I like the pipeline stocks here as oil stays around 50 and natural gas around 3 bucks. We need more rbn, which is my goto organization for info. Talking about how we need so much more pipeline to go to natural gas. I think youre fine in that stock. Lets go to joe in my home state of new jersey. Joe. Caller how are you doing, dr. Cramer . I am doing fine. How about you . Caller good. Jimmy, i want to first thank you for all the continued good insight and leadership you provide to the individual. Thank you. Caller its worth its weight in gold. More importantly, i wanted to talk to you about your outlook on t. Rowe prices equity over the next six to nine months. Year, but its a good time to take a second look at it and say i think people are getting very concerned that actual stock picking funds and companies that are in the business of anything other than just pure index funds arent doing that well. I think t. Rowe is a fabulous longterm holding. I do believe that equities will one day come back into a mode where people think its a Growth Business again. But right now, that stock could be only described as the house of pain. And im going to all right. No sleep till well, it will be a while. We got a huge earnings week coming up, and i got the alarm set for 3 30. Yeah, go ahead and tweet me. Ill be there. Get ready. Big week. On mad money tonight, its the software that helps bring films such as captain phillips, american hustle, gravity to the big screen. Could it also help bring profits to your portfolio . Im talking to the ceo of small cap avid technology. Then it seems like no rally can get you back to even these days, doesnt it . Not quite. Ill explain just ahead. Plus the market seems to have lost its aptitude for the restaurant sector appetite, not aptitude. But does this former ceo of zoes kitchen think theres still heat . I suggest you stick with cramer. Announcer dont miss a second of mad money. Follow jimcramer on twitter. Have a question . Tweet cramer, madtweets. Send jim an email to madmoney cnbc. Com or give us a call at 1800743cnbc. Miss something . Head to madmoney. Cnbc. Com. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. 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Just look at avid technologies, which makes much of the hardware and software used to power the media and entertainment industries. A number of avids digitial tools are used in sports and news production, things like embedding graphics, integrating social media, and even control over the video walls like you see in the main cnbc newsroom. Were a big user of Avid Software here at cnbc. This stock has been on a real roller coaster ride. In 2015, avid shares were cut nearly in half after the company but in 2016, things turned around, and after the Company Reported a very Strong Quarter at the beginning of august, the stock surged to 9 and change to the point where it was up roughly 35 for the year. Since then, though, avid stock has swooned again. Its actually given up all its gains for the year even though nothing much has changed except they realized a Major Contract in the Third Quarter with a Company Providing a great deal of the Technology Behind nbcs rio olympics broadcast. So lets take a closer look with Louis Hernandez jr. Hes the chairman and ceo of avid technology. Mr. Hernandez, welcome to mad money. Good to see you, sir. Have a seat. Thanks. All right. We dont usually talk about real small cap stocks, but it seems like that avid is doing a lot of things right, and this is the first time youve been on. I just want you to explain to people that weve all seen avids work. We just didnt know it was avid. Thats right. Avid is behind some of the Largest Media Companies and major motion films. You know, every grammy awardwinning artist on the music side, sports, gaming. Its really a huge, influential to be an avid editor or actual handheld cameraman, what does that take . Its interesting because on the creative side, how avid began with the editor like your cameraman, by the way, who will earn an average of 44 higher than any other editor over their lifetime, so hell be buying dinner next time. The heritage side both on the editor and the mixer is what our heritage products. Though, and that side of the work flow, is most of the Business Dynamics of the business of media have moved away from the editor and mixer and has to include the entire work flow in order to make money in media. So what avid has had to do was build on its heritage products so that it can participate in the rest of the work flow, and thats what avid is becoming now. I see the company look, the spike in the stock in the 1990s and another spike in 2000, but that was when it was a hardware company. I see you more software and you probably know im a software person in my last couple of companies starting when i was in media when thestreet. Com, the dot com era, i was there too. We were converting media files to the internet and other content to the internet back then with a different company. But, yeah, the issue today is everything about the Media Industry is changing. The digitization, the connection between your story and your consumer can now be entirely digital, and its disrupting everything economically and the work flow and the technologies they use. So what avid is doing is finding a way to participate in the rest. These transformations are never that easy. Thats why both the volatility of the stock and also our own performance as we step through this transition. As youve seen the last couple of quarters, we really seem to be surging in a couple of key areas, namely cloud subscriptions, large enterprise wide deployments, access to the tier 3 market. These are the areas were trying to build on. The company had been delisted at one point. Thats now all behind you, right, the issues that were involved in that . Thats right. Know, we went through a full assessment, created this Transformation Strategy that we said would be over in the Second Quarter of 17. Of course, one of the gifts i got shortly after being there was discovering that we had to restate nine years worth of financials. It had nothing to do with you and i really wanted people to know that. Exactly. Be that as it may, what it did allow us to do is accelerate some of the investments we were making during the time period where we had to go back and restate. So about 18 months or so we got delisted. We had to get relisted. As we came back as a public company, we were kind of halfway into this major transformation. Hard in a public setting for investors to follow all the moving parts. Those moving parts are starting to diminish. Weve said the end of this transformation is 17, midyear. Youre starting to see with every quarter real progress. Youve seen platform sales up last reported quarter up 47 . Youve seen four times growth on our cloudbased subscriptions, and more to come. So were excited about the positioning. Investors have been patient. And when you go through these transformations as a public to predict any quarter to quarter. If i watched the rio olympics on nbc, if you just had to tell me where would i have seen avids work . Where would it be . Ill tell you what. I was at the olympics with dave mazza from nbc, incredible guy and team. Number one, its so inspiring. But if youre thinking about what avid does, we do everything from creating the asset, the story, editing, mixing, storing, archiving, playout, social media distribution, the whole thing. He with do augmented reality, virtual reality. Of the 25 broadcasters there at the ibc, everybody used avid. Everybody . Everybody. And the most incredible thing from the six guys, from the cuban delegation to the largest, which was nbc, the most impressive, and ill tell you, nbc marks the state of the industry. You see, they reduced their staff on the heritage broadcast side because they knew the ad 100 million unique viewers and all the graphics and sports enhancements really saw the xfinity subscribers go up. So nbc, i think, did exactly what the industry is trying to do. How do you make this transition economically . All right. Well, look, youve certainly pulled it off. I want everyone to know that this is a new avid so to speak. Thats Louis Hernandez jr. Hes the chairman and ceo of avid technologies. Small cap stock. You have to do a lot of homework. Stick with cramer. So when we re in the kitchen, we re not worried. About the laundry. So today were going to make their secret recipe. Which is so secret. Even i dont know what it is. Turn it off im trying to this is why i trust tide. It has the power to get out the kind of things we get into. In just one wash. Here you go, daddy ok, lets try it. Mmmhmmm. That is awesome. Removes over 100 stains in one wash. 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Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Now its both the senior growth and the junior Growth Stocks that are having trouble. Even on a fairly positive day like today. Just consider the most visible of these bleeding Growth Stocks. By the way, they may not be at all in sync with the longer term fortunes of the companies they purport to represent, but why dont we start with disney which gained 19 cents today. That gain lately has been followed by a 24 cent loss. Its one step forward and then a step and a quarter back with stocks like disney these days. If you notice there arent any real bad days in the market, disney always looks like its on the verge of a big breakdown. The same exact pattern goes for nike, which presumably must be, i dont know, having problems with its north American Business like last quarter, or starbucks, where the action makes you feel like the u. S. , which was weak in the last quarter, still hasnt come back. Starbucks also managed to rally a little bit today, but in general in good sessions all these stocks seem like theyre inching a little bit higher and on bad ones they erase any gains they might have had and then some. This is torture. They tantalize and then they crush. Then theres stocks like acacia and twilio, the quintessential junior growth names that came both acacia, which is a disruptive telco Equipment Company and twilio, both recently preannounced much better than expected quarters. I mean dramatically better. But almost simultaneously they announced secondary offerings, and while the first was good news, much better than expected earnings, lets call them second. The second was an invitation for a short selling disaster because shorts flew in when they saw the insiders selling. Acacia, the network Equipment Company, ended up pricing its secondary down ten bucks at the same time as this preannouncement last week, and the stock bounced up there a little bit intraday, looked solid, but then just fell apart. It proceeded yesterday to go all the way down to 88 bucks, still above where it was before the previous breakout quarter back in august, before it rallied back to the 90s. Sure enough, today it lost 1. 91, and it looks like it wants to roll over again. It wasnt much different for twilio. Much better earnings. Yet it still cant get out of its own way. The shorts are having their way with twilio these days and its fallen from 68 to 46 in just a few weeks time. Both these 2016 ipos now feel very much like 2014 ipos, when you had lots of sliver deals. Thats what i call them. Both twilio and acacia were very small ipos. They just offered a little bit of stock at the beginning, which then created a pop, and then created further buying as well as intention short selling. You had twilios float is short. 27 of acacias. The stocks roared back and fizzled when the new supply hit the market back in 2014. It does feel like that again. The secondaries rather than creating opportunities for Short Covering for the people betting against these stocks, which is what happens by the way in a healthy market, now look like opportunities for the shorts to double down on their positions, really go down there and give these stocks the business. That could mean no respite for the stock holders in two of the hottest junior Growth Stocks in the market, which have great so the high Growth Stocks and senior Growth Stocks are both heavy. Ulta salon broke the mold yesterday with its 27 run after that great analyst meeting. I think that one can go higher even though it gave back 3 bucks today. More important, it still isnt back to where it was before its most recent quarter, which causes the shorts to get emboldened and try to knock it down. The ground looks solid, and then, boom, theres nothing underneath. Thats whats plaguing the sliver stocks that i just mentioned. It may be whats plaguing the for me as a lover of growth, this is where the rubber hits the road, right here, right now. These stocks are too visible to break down without causing the entire tape to look heavy. Its as if they have a grave responsibility to the entire market, and theyre doing nothing but letting us down, except for an occasional day where they dazzle and tantalize, only to resume their declines a session or two later. Taylor in california, taylor. Caller hey, uncle jim. Just wanted to ask you about verizon, vz, and the merger with its been taking a beating in the past three months. What do you expect . Do you buy, sell . Verizon reports next week. I expect an okay quarter. Yields 4. 59. Lets say you buy a little bit ahead of the quarter. Then you buy a little bit more. Its a great bond market equivalent, doing really well. Im not concerned about the yahoo deal. I think that stock may be a buy both before and after it reports. Lets go to vincent in texas, vincent. Caller booyah from texas. I want to say thank you from o i wanted to ask you about nutanix, ntnx, a tech stock. I know it has a high amount of competitors in the market such as cisco and hewlettpackard. But it also has a good amount of revenue and Gross Margins increasing over time along with a recent positive cash flow. I wanted to see what your opinion. There was an outfit today that downgraded that put a i did not have the ability to get the research of the outfit. I would love to get that research. I have to tell you the stock is too hot. What im talking about lately are stocks that are too hot. Need to give back a little of the gains, cool off, and then recharge. Chris in illinois, chris. Caller booyah, jim. How are you . I am good. How about you . Caller im well. Okay. My question is about trading around a position. You said never pay above your cost basis for something. Yes. Caller i have a Core Portfolio hold it doesnt look like its going to go back down to my cost basis but its taken a little bit of a pull back. Im looking at cisco as a specific example, but what do in get rich carefully, i talk about this notion, discipline, for actionalertsplus. Com, where i just say that far more times when i pay up above my basis, i end up losing. Its very rare that i ever have made money. Is cisco the way to go . In this growth cohort right now are under some pressure. Maybe get a chance to buy a little bit lower. Why dont you wait a little . Even on a positive day like today, it was a shall it seems like none of these rallies can get you back to even. Dont you feel if . Theres much more mad money ahead. Has the fast casual boom changed the restaurant as a whole . 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Were going to prove just how wet and sticky your current gel antiperspirant is. Now, were going to show you how degree dry spray is different. What are we supposed to do with the restaurant stocks now that the group is facing so much competition and theyve been absolutely hammered . The entire industry has been caught in a vicious selloff, cracker barrel, red robin. It feels like nothing in the group is working unless theres thats unlocking value. Chipotle is still struggling to find its footing since being hit with an e. Coli outbreak last year. How about fiesta restaurant group, frgi, Parent Company of taco cabana, which has dropped 35 last year . How about zoes kitchen, the mediterranean themed fast casual chain. Heres a fast growing former darling thats fallen out of favor pretty dramatically in the last few months. When zoes reporteli less than two months ago, the numbers came in a bit weaker than expected. Maybe Something Else is at work here. If it cant beat the numbers, we have to ask is there something bigger going on in the restaurant space . Has something changed when it comes to americans desire to go out to dinner . Lets get a read about this whole industry with john cassimus. Hes the former ceo of zoes kitchen, who took his parents he no longer has a day to day role in the company. Mr. Cassimus, welcome to mad money. You heard the litany, and you know the business. What the heck is happening . I think several things. First and foremost, theres a lot of competition. Theres been tremendous amounts of small fast startups, mom and Pop Restaurants in each market, and i think its grown at a pace as there arent database theres more seats for diners, food trucks, peopta i think really, honestly, Household Incomes have not increased in the last seven years. Theres less cash available for that. And then really, honestly for me, the election, i think, is having a big impact, and i think people are really scared right now. They dont know whats going on. I talk about that because i get the same i hear that ennui, that basically the discourse is very negative and i think makes every american feel ill use jimmy carters word. What happens . Were going to have to find out. It will take some time. The thing thats important to me in talking about the restaurant space, the nimble brands, the brands that can adjust and i think fast casual is poised for that because the small number of people it takes to run a restaurant, they can cut back when times get slow, and they can still remain some sort of profitability to weather the how about the minimum wage for a small place . Does it matter . I think theres always people trying to figure out how to bend those rules, not really bend the rules, but if its a certain time limit people work and then theres indicators that kick in that cost you more money, youre simply going to work people for smaller amounts of time. Restaurants do compete against making food at home. The supermarket, the prices have come down. Thats a very unusual thing. Can people actually make that pivot . Going to go cook something than go out. I think those times are past. Theres nobody going back. People are too busy. Dual income families, soccer, baseball yearround, all those things. Its just cheaper to go to a fast casual restaurant to have dinner than it is to cook it at home. Do too Many Companies get too much capital . Is it possible the venture capitalists backed a lot of chains they shouldnt have . Everybody is not going to make it, and thats a really key point. You look at it, and whos going to make it over the next several years. The ones that have the strongest brand. Listen, when people Start Companies today, what happened to the days when it was nothing wrong with having a quarter or two of bad results because youre building a big brand. Youre building something, chickfila. He had a thing behind the coach that says theres no obstacle too high if you climb with care and confidence. He looked at me and said, dont so people are being knocked for not going fast enough. I look at shake shack, and i know wall street is constantly wants them to put up more stores than maybe they should be able to. Thats a whole nother loaded gun there because theyre in a segment of the fast casual restaurant space that is so theres so many competitors, even from down to qsr and all the way through. Its very difficult to compete. In the time left, what would an investor at home should they stick with the concept they mediterranean casual. Should they stick with it through thick and thin or is that too dicey to do anymore. Theres no question. If youre going to be invested in food and a small cap stock, theres no question in my mind, zoes kitchen is the only one to be invested in. Strong loyalty. Great real estate. Their locations are less susceptible to economic downturns than others. The brand has a cult following, and their runway for growth is there are not that many that are like that. Obviously youre familiar with i think that zoes kitchen, that brand is a first mover like chipotle was and like panera bread was in each of their segments of the fast casual. Zoes has done that with mediterranean, fresh homemade food. Chipotle went public at 300. Zoes went public at 100. Theres room . Theres room. Fair enough. I think thats a great analysis. This group has really been tough, though. Thats john cassimus, former ceo of z k mad money is back after the break. Im dragging. Yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours. Or, take mucinex. One pill fights congestion for 12 hours. No thank you very much, shes gonna stick with the shortterm stuff. 12 hours . Guess i wont be seeing you for a while. Is that a bisque . I just lost my appetite. Why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours . Start the relief. I used to blame the weather for my frizz. Turns out my curls needed to be stronger. Pantenes prov formula makes my curls so strong. They can dry practically frizz free. Because strong it is time rapid fire. You tell me the stock. I tell you to buy, buy, buy or sell, sell, sell. Well play this sound [ buzzer ] and then the lightning round is over. Are you ready, skeedaddy . Its time for the lightning round on cramers mad money. Lets start with madeline in florida, madeline. Caller hey, jimmy. Its madeline. Hey, maddy, whats up . Caller thanks for the scolding this week about not turning trades into investments. I really needed to hear that. I dont know. Someone at the supermarket said i was dead wrong on that but i think he was joking. Whats up . Funny stories you tell about mrs. Cramer. Keep them coming. Shes a riot. Caller anyway, i bought ori a few months ago, and its not doing anything. Im kind of getting tired of looking at it. What do you think . Yeah. No, thats a stay the course insurance company. Its an old good company. Travelers reported this week. I like the dividend. I think youre fine. Thank you for the kind comments. Thank you. Lets go to teresa in florida, please. Teresa. Caller im curious about quest diagnostics. This stock got hit when theranos started to roar, and i think its gone up too much. At this level, dont buy. Marvin in new york. Marvin. Caller booyah. My stock is stm. Its one of those stocks a lot of people think is going to get a takeover bid. It still remains inexpensive. I still like the semiconductor. H that could be an opportunity. Lets go to james in new york. James. Caller hey, jim. How are you doing . I wanted to ask you about pbf energy. Refining, im not there. I prefer to have lets just say i like a yield. Maybe buy a basket. Lets go to vijay in illinois. Vijay. Caller big booyah, jim. Booyah back. All your sincere efforts to help people to make some money and educate them. I wish you and your Family Good Health and happiness always. Wow, thank you. Vijay, same to you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Caller im a long term investor, and what is your take on summer. Im glad you used the word long term because short term i think its a little shaky here. But longer term i really like. Any company that gives you a Health Care Solution that brings bernie sanders, little tweet tonight. Lets go to marva in georgia. Caller hello, there. Hi, marv. Caller all right. The plate depth, is that buy, hold or sell . No. As a matter of fact, weve been talking about you know, the research guy who helped me immensely in putting together the research for the show, and im taking another one. Lets go all the way to arizona to by the way, the cardinals, i got two cardinals playing in the fantasy league. I forget who they play. Lets go to ej in arizona, ej. Caller hey, jim. How you doing . Jets good. Whats up . Very good, man. I was looking to pick your brain on this tech stock thats been pretty hot these past couple months. They just landed a second china deal today and i was wondering what you thought of that and if impactful as their first one. Which is the one . Caller the stock is amd. Oh, advanced micro. They report next week. They did a big refinancing, which i was in favor of. That caused a lot of people to think its not going to get taken over. I dont remember stocks on a takeover basis, i think amd is coming back. Maybe buy some before and after. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round announcer the lightning whatcha got there . New cheezit sandwich crackers made with real cheese ummmm. Sammiches sandwich with a d sammich. Sandwich Sammich Sammich see ahahaha we take time fo r our cheese to mature, i had frequent heartburn, but. 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Their gigantic multiplatform network has 79,000 partners and gets a total of more than 18 billion, with a b, paid views per month. In a rapidly shifting media environment which online video has changed all the rules of the game, this is a company that understands how to grab eyeballs. I got to speak with shahrzad rafati. Shes the visionary founder and ceo of broadband tv last week. I want you to take a look. Shahrzad, you got probably the most exciting background of anyone we spoke to this week. I just want to give you the floor. This story. Thanks so much. Its great to be here. Im a Computer Scientist at heart, and i started my company, broadband tv right out of school, and it really came down to my passion in life. You know, one of the key drivers in my life is, you know, creating jobs on a global basis. When youre looking at every second online, by 2019, there will be more than 1 million minutes deployed across all the ip networks. That means that an average user is going to spend 5 million years watching just content that video content that gets deployed every month. I think the amount of content being distributed across ip networks is growing massively, and this is not just being deployed by large traditional media companies, but its also being created by this next generation of content creators. So really my passion in life is to be able to help these new generation of content creators, to be able to succeed, which is like really helping empower entrepreneurs. But i also have to tell you that youre humble, and i know you want to get your message across. But im demanding that you tell me about your family background because when i first met you, i was in awe. Im still in awe, but im in awe of that part of your personal history. I think my personal history, i grew up in iran. You didnt have access to really it was three tv channels, and because of that, when i as i was growing up, i really wte part in democratizing video content and really empowering storytelling. We live in a day and age where individuals can actually directly impact, you know, an audience, leveraging platforms like youtube, facebook, snapchat. I think, again, leveraging technology, because of the fact that content consumption is unlimited, youre going to be able to actually do that and solve major problems at scale. People may not know you are Different Properties that you own. Just go through the properties because people probably watched them and didnt know it was you. Were the Third Largest video property in the world after google and facebook, which means one out of every three people that are across google sites are consuming our content. When youre looking at our growth rate, h 1 over h 1, we had a 289 growth in views only. Obviously we are private, so we cant disclose our revenue numbers, but similar trends. This has come across all the verticals that we operate. So we are number one worldwide in unique views, and also watch time across our peer group in multiplatform networks, which means were the largest distributor of short form content. But that is also because of the fact that we actually have gone very deep in terms of the verticals that we operate. And this ranges from entertainment to gaming to music, journalism, and recently we formed a partnership with the i didnt know you were a basketball fan when i first met you. Oh, absolutely. One of the things that weve been exploring out here is Artificial Intelligence, machine learning. Even if the time since ive known you, this has now been something thats very important for your networks. It is, absolutely. I think, you know, again its one of my passions to be able to Leverage Technology to solve problems at scale and, you know, whether if its leveraging Artificial Intelligence or other solutions, obviously as a Computer Scientist, ai is a great passion of mine, and this goes from deep learning, which means leveraging deep learning to address big problems in data analytics. Extracting complex patterns across large libraries of content that are unlabeled, uncategorized, to semantic indexing, to data tagging. And really this allows i mean for broadband tv, we have the second largest database of video, and this has allowed us to better understand those be able to better optimize our content, and also help increase the quality of the content. And i think the other thing that is also interesting in ai, and i think we spoke about this, i think last time we met is around emotional intelligence. Right. And emotional understanding. And this is very interesting in a sense that i think as a frontier of ai. In order to be able to actually leverage ai, to understand Human Emotion, because when youre looking at cameras and the level of sophistication in cameras, or when you look at face and voice recognition, the technology has advanced so much to a point that we can actually really detect Human Emotion and the state of the emotion. And i think there is a massive, i think, area of opportunity in terms of us solving depression with medical diagnosis or even education. Thats shahrzad rafati, and something that if you dont know about, you are missing one of the Fastest Growing companies on earth, but it is broadband tv corp. Changed. You wanna check yours . Scores dont change that much. I havent changed. Oh really . Its girlsnight. Ah huh. They said business casual. I love summer weddings oh no. Yeah, maybe it is time. Maybe i should check my credit score. Oh woah. Thats different. Check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. You ready . By their second kid, every mom is an expert, and more likely to choose luvs than first time moms. You know, my buddy scott wapener, his halftime report, its actually going to hit the fiveyear mark next week. Congratulations. Listen to this list of names that are stopping by to pay homage to this incredible achievement. We got next level hitters. David tepper, karl icahn, jeffrey gundlach, marc lasry, nelson peltz, the man who has been an activist. Jim chanos, a short seller, has got some terrific ideas, interviewed him at delivering alpha. And a lot more. It all starts monday on halftime at noon eastern. This market is sloppy. I think this market should sell bull market somewhere. I promise to try and find it just for you right here on mad money. Im jim cramer, and i will see you monday . . Welcome to teen kids news. Im veronique. Lets begin with our top story for this week. . . 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