Today, Keith Richards and Jim Cramer - Mad Money commented about whether UA-N, TPL-N, ANET-N, LNG-A, NFLX-Q, DELL-N, TMUS-Q, CRWD-Q, CVX-N, LLY-N, AAPL-Q, BRBR-N, MRK-N, CVS-N, AGCO-N, KSS-N, CAVA-N, CSCO-Q, BA-N, NVDA-Q, CAT-N, META-Q, BRK.B-N, LSPD-T, FRU-T, POWL-Q, DOW-N, RCL-N, TSLA-Q, GOOG-Q, EFN-T, ARX-T, TCS-T, MSFT-Q, LB-T, CHE.UN-T, BN-T, CNQ-T, AVGO-Q, CVE-T, CLS-T, BA-N are stocks to buy or sell.
Higher highs so far, and we're testing the last low. Overall trend is good. He's still buying, has done 2 legs of 2% each so far. Yield is 1.5%.
Note that if the market turns down in a big way this will be one of its victims, as industrials will be one of the first to fall.
Macros are really important to his team. His business partner does the fundamentals, but the macros they do are largely technical. It's the way he looks at risk. He tries to quantitatively measure how much risk the market has by looking at market sentiment, market breadth, and other big picture stuff.
When he sees that the market has a higher risk profile, he'll raise some cash and really start paying attention to the trend, expecting it to break down. Once he sees that, he starts moving out very aggressively.
It's been problem after problem for them. Theft is forcing them to lose market share to Amazon. They're closing their worst-performing stores, opening health clinics and double-down on their non-drugstore businesses like Aetna and health insurance benefits manager. They have more than 900 medic clinics and 200 Oak Street health clinics. (Walgreens is reducing their clinics and Walmart got rid of all their clinics, because they can't find workers.) CVS bought Aetna 6 years ago, but managed care providers have been struggling for 1.5 years as people catch on post-Covid surgeries, which means paying out for those procedures. Meanwhile, Aetna dropped the ball on Medicare advantage plans for seniors; the plans were too cheap, which attracted many more customers, so people are using more healthcare services as the government is getting stingier with payments. Poor performance forced the CEO to be fired last October. Shares down -25% in December alone (healthcare stocks have fallen out of favour since the election and the Humana CEO murder). Then, Trump threatens to cut out the middlemen in health insurance. Just two days ago, the Justice Department slapped them with a lawsuit over controlled substances, which he thinks is damning. Their balance sheet is weak.
Good to look at the 1-year chart. A breakout from a base most always results in a nicely trending stocks. Previous resistance will become the new support, and you'd watch to see if it breaks that. Yield is 0.3%.
(Analysts’ price target is $660.50)