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Against the pandemic and when were losing, we buy the cramer covid19 index. Oh, i wish there were more to it than that. But when the virus seems unstoppable. You go back to the wealth and buy the stocks of the companies regardless of valuation. Thats how the dow gained 236 points today the s p advanced 2. 7 . And winners surge 1. 47 . This rally was extra infuriating to anyone who thinks the market should be linked to washingtons inability to pass another stimulus bill now that the 600 a week benefits have expired the rising case counts in so many states, california over 500,000 that forced closures of flagging businesses. So let me give you the guide to the perplexed. Because when you go to the tape and look at whats winning, its actually very straightforward. Theres nothing counterintuitive about this move. Its not crazy its not illogical in fact, it makes perfect sense. Lets do this. Lets consider the 15 best performers of the covid19 index. First, theres fastly. This is a platform that provides stability and support to tens of thousands of websites. They handle everything from news to ecommerce these guys work with shopify, new york times, slap, Microsofts Github as well as pictures. Fastly thrives when everyones stuck at home. Were totally stuck at home. Were totally relying on the internet second, chegg, the internet learning platform. 45 with so many colleges moving courses online, of course their stock is soaring this company, its a dream come tr true for stayathome students and chewy. Again, this is another company that would have been doing fine but is now on fire thanks to covid. Its a pandemic playground fourth is peloton. Oh, theres nothing like a pandemic to turn exercise into an ecosystem when the gym is closed you stop using your peloton bike as a clothes rack and prepare to sweat it off her digital coaching is like the flywheel this spinning brick and mortar competitor. Regardless of who comes up with a vaccine, were going to need billions of files. That means we need Emergent Biosolutions theyre the contract manufacturer for a number of Drug Companies working on vaccines they have the capacity and the capability and skillset to help. The worse the outbreak gets, the higher the stock goes. Six, diabetes is a huge risk factor for covid its much more lethal for diabetics. So no wonderer Livongo Health has become a total juggernaut. It doesnt get more pertinent than that. When you hear the disease is raging, you know everything tied up in the workfromhome complex is headed higher how do you stay in touch when you cant go to the office zoom video this ones so obvious that its already become a verb. Believe me, zoom doesnt run like this when people are confident about the future number eight, etsy, the online marketplace for all sorts of handcrafted stuff including masks. They let you build a whole business from your Kitchen Table or your garage we love it in our restaurants. We bought beautiful aprons for our waiters and waitresses and thats how well well do when were actually able to serve customers in the restaurants ninth, whats a hot 100 list without shopify . Which helps hundreds of thousands of Small Businesses go digital. Its also become a Growth Engine for Large Consumer product companies. People dont realize like that its the largest business in canada it used to be a fraction of that tenth is the trade desk which helps Companies Manage Advertising Campaigns especially against streaming content. If microsoft tiktok, it makes it more advertiser friendly 11th, you need a web presence, right . Come, you need one, probably dont have one well, if you do, you need to go to wix. Com again, this is another company thats essentially for Small Businesses that are trying to survive this stayathome economy. Notice i didnt say pathetic Small Businesses Small Businesses number 12, microsoft, which is all about the tiktok fire sale president trumps threat to shut down the chineseowned tiktok in america if they dont find a u. S. Buyer means that microsoft could get it for a fraction of what its worth. Thatd be a houge coup for a company. No other company can compete with them except for maybe verizon. Honestly, anyone who can afford it should be going after tiktok. Believe me, i would have i could put together a consortium, but i get it goes under microsoft because it isnt under scrutiny like amazon, facebook, or apple. Right now the white house seems to favor microsofts lowball bid, i dont know. 13, nvidia is more of a rebound play ive heard rumors that they might pay billions of dollars, a Semiconductor Design company with a ton of apple exposure i have so much confidence in their ceo that im good either way. If he decides not to buy, same thing. Hes more than earned the benefit. Plus, nvidia is a huge beneficiary of their stayathome economy because of their gaming exposure. How about the 14th beyond meat this was already in costco which reports monthly numbers on wednesday. But their plantbased burgers were just picked up by b jim cramer js and sams club if you get more people to buy the product, if you can make it cheaper than real meat, thats a gigantic win theres also a pandemic connection as meat packing plants keep turning into covid hot spots, making plants more attractive this is all about a major increase in distribution finally, 15, how can you have a list about covid19 top performers without salesforce . They are digitizing all over the place because they have no choice which means more work for salesforce this is the single best way to figure out how to open up your business safely, not stupidly like so many people do i wish more people would use it. And all the stocks that work today do better with the pandemic than without it they arent automakers they arent banks. They arent smokestack industrials or even Drug Companies. They are enterprises that have huge demand because the virus has fundamentally changed the way we do things you Better Believe the cramer covid19 index will lead us higher and, yes, these companies are absolutely big enough to drag the averages with us and amazingly go much higher still lets go to jeff in georgia. Jeff hey, jim. How are you doing . I hope youre safe down there, man you as well, sir. Thank you. Hey. Youve mentioned several times in the recent past that you like proofpoint i own it at 113. And do you see any idea why they dropped 12 on friday after they have reported beated earnings on friday a bunch of us were trying to figure that out. And we all concluded when we were completely dumbfounded that the stock was wrong, not us. I think proofpoint is a buy. I want to go to al in South Carolina hey, jim. Whats going on i bought zillow about a year ago. And its doing pretty good so i just wonder if i should take them off the table or buy youre just fine. Hold onto zillow its got that great new Management Team and they are doing things right i think that you are in very good shape with zillow never thought id say that, but, holy cow, you change your model and it works there you go right now were not winning the war against the pandemic so what do you do . Well, you buy the cramer covid19 index these are the top ones today pretty easy to figure out. More mad money tonight how is the covid19 pandemic impacting pinterest . I am talking with the ceo. See if you can pin it to win it. And a clean break in stepping down as ceo. Im talking with him about the move in the companys quarter. And while some companies met heightened earnings expectations, simple team wasnt so lucky stock took a tumble. But could it be a buying opportunity . 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All those Big Tech Companies reporting last thursday night, you mightve missed a company that reported blowout numbers on friday morning thats pinterest and when i say blowout, i mean one of the best quarters weve seen this earnings season, maybe this year. Results so incredible the stocks surged 36 on friday and another 5 today when the pandemic hit there was a lot of confusion surrounding pinterests virtual pin board platform slashed to 10 turns out those sellers made a huge mistake pinterest has regained all that lost ground. Now its 36. Thats a new high. While the Company Posted a substantial beat, the headlines were just the tip of the iceberg. Pictures had 416 million Monthly Average users when it was only looking for 380 million. Thats monumental. They did tell us that revenue was up 50 year over year in july and 30 revenue growth, thats astonishing. I got a chance to check in with the cofounder and ceo of pinterest. Ben, welcome back to mad money. Thanks for having me, jim how are you doing today . Well, ill tell you, im terrific because it looks like the good guys are winning you have the cleanest, most fun and inspirational site and it looks like the advertisers have figured out that this is the brandsafe place to be well, weve been really happy that so many businesses have been able to find success on pinterest over the last few months it has been a fabulous thing for Small Businesses because theyve been able to be found. One of the things i really loved in your Conference Call was you said ecommerce is great when you know what you want to buy. But if you want to browse and discover what is inspiring, pinterest is the best place to go yeah. I think that people have always come to pinterest first to get inspirations, to get an idea for anything it could be redecorating their home or finding a home workout and then they think about what they need to do to make that inspiration into reality so that just presents a great opportunity for businesses who know there are customers out there who are looking for their products but they might not have heard of the specific product name or brand. It does seem that the advertisers also like the tabs for instance, you have one that my daughter looked at for glamping what a great place to reach the people because otherwise its too diffuse. You dont exoefrp where to go. Yeah. I think that if you can reach people who are actually there looking for inspiration. They havent decided what they want but they know that they want to do something new in their life, thats a golden opportunity for any business todd had a great point on the Conference Call talking about how the boycott of others that are controversial did help you and i know that the big spurt in july traffic 50 helped too. These are huge tail winds that do you think that they have any sustainability well, i think that weve seen great growth amongst our user base all over the world. Weve seen that now for several quarters in a row. So to me what that says is that that need to get inspiration and to plan what you might want to do in your future, thats something thats pretty global and that sits alongside other needs people have to connect with their friends or read news. And i think that that tail wind will continue. As for advertisers wanting a place that they can inspire people and that feels brandsafe, its hard to say how long the Current Movement will last but we think over the long term, advertisers will always want a place where they can inspire their customers. So were laser focused on providing just that. Now the International Growth was really extraordinary you made the point several time on the Conference Call that its englishspeaking it seems like its got to be more than that what countries obviously the uk is very important but the growth is so stunning internationally that im trying to figure out which countries have been so important you know, the great thing, jim, is we are seeing growth all over the world and so we have seen great growth in western europe and latin america and brazil and parts of asia and over time whats wonderful is we are starting to see Business Results follow. International revenue only comprised about 9 of overall revenue last year at this time now its up to 15 so were starting to see the same formula thats working really well for businesses here in the United States also work well for advertisers around the world you have said over and over again that when you do these Great Technology leaps, its going to pay off you did them, and yet wall street seemed to be completely unaware that they had kicked in. What do you think was the disconnect because youve been very open that when you finished this great r d effort, its going to lead to extraordinary readership well, jim, i think that were at the company just very focused on what we think will in the long term best serve our customers and best serve advertisers. And sometimes there is time for those results to actually show up in financial results. But we try to look out 12, 18, 24 months and think what are the Big Technology investments that we need to make to help deliver inspiration to people all over the world. And thats the approach that were continuing to take so while weve turned down spending a little bit, as every business has kind of going into the pandemic, we still are investing heavily into the long term, machine learning, Computer Vision and other Technology Elements that we think will fuel growth over the long term. Ben, a lot of companies at the end of their Conference Call mentioned and also we believe in Racial Justice and were giving x, and thats it. Clearly, you put it at the top of your Conference Call in your letter, which was excellent. How do you avoid being socalled controversial and yet doing the right thing because the site is the least toxic site in the world, but there are people who regard Racial Justice, believe it or not, as polarizing you know, we really believe firmly that our company has a culture and our product should be one thats inclusive for everyone so theres been national and an International Movement for Racial Justice pinterest has not been left out of that. And its been an opportunity for us to look within and also to the investments and think how do we do better so inside the company were renewing kind of our obligations to improve representation at Senior Leadership level to build an Inclusive Culture but we also want to make sure that when you use pinterest regardless of your background, you can see yourself in it you can find something inspirational. We dont think thats going to be something controversial over the long term. We think thatll make the product better for everyone. And we inspire to build a product no matter what your background is, no matter what country you live in, no matter what your particular interest is i wanted to point it out if youre just looking at it from the stock, go to the site and youll see how inclusive i find it one of the things i find most inclusive is that you have been able to span the generations you have resurrected users but you have young users, gen z that you call them that seem to have been lost in the fray and youre either in tiktok in kind of a mindnumbing experience or youre all the way in facebook and you have decided already that youre going to use colgate and not crest. How are you able to attract a gen z crowd that no one else has been able to reach we were really proud to see that the population of users under the age of 25, which we call gen z grew at twice the rate of other groups and when we looked at what they were doing, they were looking to pinterest to get inspiration in their everyday life. Some of those use cases are exactly the same as all age groups people thinking about how to make their living space more liveable, thinking about their personal appearance, their personal health and wellness habits we also saw a particular strength in creative activities. So people that wanted to try something new just for themselves i think what it reflects is that a lot of young people, they sort of have their fill when it comes to social content and news content. Thats really well served by other platforms. But when they look within about what can i do that will make me feel good, theyre looking for inspiration and pinterest can serve to help if ill that gap. I think thats the perfect way to leave it because you have succeeded beyond everybodys wildest dream except for your team you all knew that youre doing the right thing. And the right thing definitely wins out in the end. Thank you, ben great to see you again, sir. Thanks, jim thanks for having me and hope youre staying safe and healthy. You too okay i like the stock, but i want you if you like it to go to pinterest, look up your favorite categories so you know whats behind this. Its not just a stock thats doing well stick with cramer. Welcome to kram america. You can see more of me on peacock, the new streaming service for nbc universal. Go to news on peacock to stream mad money tips and get tips for free learn more at peacocktv. Com. What the heck just happened to the stock of clorox after months of outperformance courtesy of the pandemic, it got clocked today in the wake of a seemingly Strong Quarter their cleaning products are exactly what you need to protect yourself from the virus. Sure enough the companys doing very well. They posted a monster 42cent earnings beat with substantially higher than expected sales with 24 organic growth ive never seen a number like that its insane. But clorox also gave us some guidance for their next fiscal year and it was conservative i think maybe its just underpromising so they can overdeliver . I dont know we also learned that longtime chairman and ceo ben would be relinquishing the ceo to the current president linda. And thats effective september 14 i would not be at all surprised. Given how much the stock had run going into the forecast, thats why the stock tumbled 2 by talking to ben, he is the clorox chairman and now outgoing ceo to get a better sense of the quarter, ben welcome back to mad money. Thank you well, first, before we get into the formal part about clorox, i just want to congratulate you for a great run. Very few people finished on top. You decided to do that i know youve got great things you want to do in your life. And you have a terrific successor who i had the good fortune of meeting so i think youre leaving the company in great hands i sure hope so. First of all its been a great honor and privilege to be the ceo of this great company. And its a good time for a tradition, which was strategic and well planned we have so much momentum on the business we have a strategy that we believe in and, as you note, we have a great successor. And, importantly, we want to continue to take a longterm view of this pivotal opportunity that we have now and for that its a really great opportunity and thing to have, to have a ceo at the helm who has a long runway. I think there was way too much attention and for people at home theres a Conference Call that went on and most people are focused on the forecast. Im not necessarily as focused on the forecast because i have it tell you i have no idea whether itll cure this thing or not cure it. But what i do want to talk about is the Tremendous Energy you have brought and the new formation of the different divisions and what it means. Because as far as i can see, its everything from kingsford to your salad dressings to your litter box to the bags and of course to your probiotics. There really wasnt a division besides clorox that wasnt on fire you know whats great about this last quarter with 24 organic sales growth and this last fiscal year which we just closed with 10 sales growth, which, by the way, is the highest organic sales growth we have had in modern history, is that all four segments grew double digits. So we are seeing broadbased strength and its certainly in part a function of the fact that our products and brands are serving so many more consumers today in the face of the pandemic with people staying at home but we also are seeing much improved core health fundamentals we are seeing growing market shares we are seeing growing household penetration. We are seeing the percentage of our portfolio that is seen superior in value by our competitors at an alltime high. This is a time when consumers are in need of brands that they trust. As the clorox company, we have so many of these brands. I see the different surveys which talk about the trust and we had adam aaron on from amc. I know the uber people very well i know the United People very well they chose clorox to partner with and i know why they did it because with clorox we feel safe that is a great honor. How did those deals come about they came to us because they know that we have not just the most trusted brand in cleaning and disinfecting in the united f knowledge from being in this business for many years about cleaning and disinfecting protocols that are effective so, this is an emerging strategy for us to help the country reopen whenever hopefully we are ready to fully commit ourselves to doing that. We need cleaning and disinfecting protocols in public spaces that keep people safe and protected. And, importantly, we need people to feel confident that they can come back out. And thats where we can make a difference and the partnership weve had with uber, united airlines, amc theaters, and recently also the Cleveland Clinic, attributed to that now, to me the Cleveland Clinic was a sign that your company is now about hygiene and good health. And the hygiene is in secular increase, not cyclical so, i separate hygiene from a recession and you talked about what happened in the recession, although i think as you said, trusted brands gain in a recession. But i think your companies reposition on the fly. And it didnt necessarily start out as a Hygiene Company but it ended with clorox as a Hygiene Company. We are certainly a health and Wellness Company at heart. It is a big part of our history, and it certainly is a big part of our future. As i think about the growth unity that we have is to help serve the public in the face of the pandemic but certainly also well past that we expect that consumers and institutional customers will engage with disinfecting products in much more significant ways for a very, very long time and thats why were investing one of the things that led to, you know, an outlook for this coming fiscal year that some people view to be as conservative, we view to be as appropriately balanced in the face of uncertainty, is aggressive stance to investing we are investing in Advertising Sales promotions to engage with consumers. We are investing in building capacity to take advantage of Growth Opportunities around the world, around cleaning and disinfecting and were investing in our people and business transformation this is a time for our business to play offense and thats exactly what we will do. Now, i noticed in lindas background, she has a lot of international. And i know that she also worked at procter, which is an International Company like you i was thinking the clorox brand resonates more internationally i spoke to the lysol people the other day. Clorox, premier brand. Its got to be in the same in europe they have to view it that way, but thats expensive to take over europe, but you got to take them on. Yeah. We are known to be very disciplined when it comes to making expansion decisions and thats not going to change at all with linda. So we have so much Growth Opportunity here in the United States, and that will be our core focus Going Forward but it is very true that we also are looking at a lot of Growth Opportunities internationally, whether thats europe or in asia or in the middle east. Weve Just Announced that were taking over the majority in a joint intelligenture that weve had for the last 50 years in saudi arabia giving us an opportunity to serve our consumers in the gulf region so we will pursue these Growth Opportunities. But, again, we will pursue them with discipline. Do you think your legacy is the fact that youre the first ceo of a Major Company that ive met who put more emphasis on compensation, on doing the righ thing for the planet no one else is doing that and it was your idea. Uh, thats given me a lot of credit, and thats very kind i dont know if thats true, but if i can have contributions, then im certainly happy i think my legacy is hopefully the position that were in as a company today. And thats one of opportunity. Thats one of fundamentals that are healthy. And importantly thats one of a Management Team. And a new ceo, a female ceo, might i say, a first female ceo in our 107 years history, its her and what she will be able to do Going Forward with hopefully a little bit that ive been able to contribute. If thats my legacy, ill be very proud you should be thanks again my trust as a big shareholder, thank you for everything youve done for all your shareholders thats the chair and ceo of clorox, a fundamentally reinvented company we didnt even get to the probiotics division. What a great job district to work in. Mad moneys back after the break. Nasdaq reaching alltime highs. Which companies are fueling the record run what the milestone signals for the investors. Squawk on the street tomorrow 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Tada did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . Given my unique lifestyle, thatd be perfect let me grab a pen and some paper. Know what . Im gonna switch now. Just need my desk. My chair. And my phone. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Like i said in the top of the show, were in a covid bull mark right now the big winners here are generally the stocks that benefit from the pandemic economy. But not all of them are benefitting equally. Take the company that makes cloudbased Collaboration Software that has been so strong for so long. Last thursday night, at last scene, lets call it mixed quarter. While the headline results were solid, they added fewer new customers than the analysts expected maybe more worrisome it was complicated and wall street likes simple everyones used to simple from atlassian. In response the stock got eviscerated on friday. I think that can be an overreaction so is this a rare buying opportunity that never seems to stay down for long or maybe we should be more concerned. We are going to get a better read on the companys prospects. Welcome back to mad money. Hey, jim, how are you doing all right, well, mate, as you like to say to people in the Conference Call, we are all so used to atlassian shooting the lights out are you surprised that your stock dropped post earnings given that heritage . Look, i think we delivered a really solid quarter we had a great year. Revenue up over 1. 6 billion, 30 Free Cash Flow margin. We continue to be a longtermfocused company, as you can see in our results were focusing on building the best business for our customers in the long term and we believe that will have the returns for shareholders in that period of time. But you too have a lot of supporters covid19 challenges, especially april, may, moderation of new customer additions mightve been affected i have to believe that covid19 did slow some of the purchasing or the integration that atlassian needed uh, a little bit. Its actually more on the churn side so its certainly we saw more t smaller customer we have 174,000 enterprise customers. So, a lot of those are small and Small Business was really, really hurt by the economic churn that happened in april and may. And, hence, we saw some of that in the customer numbers. And, at the same time, it was our highest ever quarters for new ads. So the number of new customers that we brought in was our highest quarter ever so we continue to be bullish so perhaps it is wrong to look at the aggregate numbers and better to look underneath and see the large deals. Sure. Were doing very well on that front. We passed a hundred customers. Thats been more than a Million Dollars a year, which is up 74 year on year so at the large end of town we continue to do really well as we get greater and greater. Enterprise penetration in the fortune 5000 when i first saw atlassian, i thought what you guys were was just communicating with people in the organization. Then i got in charge of a Major Software overhaul. I realized that atlassian is the only way to be able to control the cost of a Major Software overhaul, particularly one that is going to the cloud. Uh, we should put you on our marketing, jim, thats a great way to explain what we do. For sure were obviously an incredibly powerful force in the Software Development agile and Devops Movement and increasingly so in the i. T. Market as people who build software and people who run software are increasingly working together or becoming one team we do think we have the only platform that spans across all of that work that is incredibly complicated for teams to do inside of companies and incredibly important as the world continues to digitize and Software Becomes evermore important as a competitive advantage to every single business out there. Now, you do make a lot of acquisitions and im not good enough to be able to keep up with other than to say they got square, they got ebay, they have spotify, cisco, airbnb, nasa, toyota, they must need these things in order to be able to please their clients for sure. Mineville added an Asset Management capability. You have tens of thousands of assets from laptops to services to Different Things you have to track and manage and support the number one request from our i. T. Customers in that market was, as i mentioned, the capability is the native part of the platform and were super thrilled to bring on the mindville team so i think that will be great. And help is about providing service. So when people want a legal contract or an image for marketing or need a new laptop and how thats provided is a native slack application, one of the largest applications in the slack ecosystem, which obviously as people move to messagingbased work flows, its incredibly important area. Now, you have a big fan in a company that i follow. Brilliant managers there they can get anybody they wanted this is a hedge fund that has phenomenal longterm performance. I imagine they evaluated everyone, including github because they know microsoft very well and chose atlassian and thats a great plum for you. They did. They moved from a very large legacy itsm solution across to a much more modern desk and confluencebased solution. You know, super great, on point i. T. And Engineering Department there. And were thrilled to have them as a customer and even more so to have them move off an alternate solution so when i look again, im stuck with this darn research. Weve got jeffrey saying even super stars need a break and we have bmo saying time for a pause. I mean, to me this means youve got to buy because if it is just a pause and you need a base, atlassian is going to roar ahead it sounds like the cadence of the months was good. And your stock is a very expensive stock but for a lot of good reasons absolutely. Look, weve been very clear in our shareholder letter and in our communications were a longterm thinking business were going after the fortune 5000 in three or four giant market areas and were taking this opportunity, this economic challenge and turmoil period to really invest and double down in our strength areas we are going to hire 1,000 people in the next 12 months we are not slowing down the r d and the products we are building we did this in 2008, 2009, and we came out really strong from that period and set up a decade worth of growth. Thats exactly what were communicating that were going to do this time around but youve still got that lowprice offer. You can go to the website. I was always intrigued you can actually get for like 7 bucks you can still get atlassians firepower . Even more so now. So we just in the last end of the quarter before this, but the first full quarter that weve had free offerings of our Major Applications so Dura Software and service desk and confluence now will have entirely free offerings for less than 12 people. We unleashed the potential of every team so to get your whole team running for free, if it works and provides value and the Software Manages your cost, as you say, then youll add another team and once you move to 11 years, then you become a customer congratulations on your success. I think its just a pause thats refreshing i know you guys are too good at what you do. Cofounder and ceo of atlassian, see you soon mad moneys back after the break. I think for me its always been about not letting the pandemic kill your vibe. I wanted to be able to provide a space for people, to spread the love and to support our community. At this point, peoples livelihoods are at risk. What can we do to support each other . Theres no room for competition. Were so much stronger than if we were to stand on our own. Lightning round is sponsored by Td Ameritrade it is time and then the lightning round is over are you ready . Well start with mark in wisconsin. Mark hey, jim. How are you . I am good how are you . Im doing great thanks hey, jim, Health Insurance is essential. Ehealth sells it online. Profits and revenues beat expectations they raised guidance, but the stock has been sick. Short interest is high what do you make of it yeah. I think its just a big, big raid on these guys i want to get them back on we had scott demanders on. I thought he told a very important story. If they come back on maybe we can duke it out with what the shorts are saying versus what scott says lets go to ryan in new york ryan jimmy, booya im chilling. Whats going on . Thanks for making us all smarter investors. Just wanted to give a quick shoutout to my bro marcus. Been watching this since february religiously lets get into it. Playing off your California Gold rush theory. What do you think about you got it perfect. Thats exactly what it is. When you go to a doctors office, you go to the hospital, there it is. They own whole parts of the real estate in hospital i think its a buy even though it just roared lets go to kurt in tennessee. Kurt jim, how are you doing . Im doing well, kurt. How about you . Good. I want to ask you about alexion pharmaceuticals. I think theyre terrific. Ive liked them for a long time. They do a lot of stuff its very complicated stuff. I thought they were going to be in the running for whats going on with covid. You know what, i do think that the problem with them is that everyone always thinks its going to get a takeover bid. They always think so and thats what causes the stock down some fluff. Lets go to ashton in texas. Hey, jim, big fan i really enjoyed your commencement speech. Thank you i got some nice words on that. I appreciate that. Thank you. My question to you is regarding its been an alltime high levels since may do you think theres still more upside yes, i do because as long as this pandemic rages, there are very few things you can do outside and golf is one of them. You can also do croake, not as fashionable. Lets go to roger in california. Sorento therapeutics. I know its gone up significantly over the past few months my wife and i were talking about it we said why is someone doing a saliva test for the virus . And sure enough, they did. I was skeptical but its now moved up quite a bit i know there are a lot of shorts so far so good lets go to sean in rhode island sean hey, booya thanks for having me thank you i wanted to talk to you a little bit about the company zale trades pretty low at about 11 a share with a 2. 50 dividend. In the Current Crisis now were in having a small percentage of my portfolio no bigger than that because they are a company that is so up or down. 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You see so many vacant or boarded up storefronts and you recognize the names, lots of venerable institutions the survivors pointless and endless Bank Branches that only open during the week, making the neighborhood feel even more desolate over the weekend. And clothing stores, how long before the formally well situated loft closes its stores . At least that particular stretch in midtown is a little too upscale for lord taylor and mens wearhouse. These were in the death spiral before the pandemic hit. The Movement Just pushed them over the edge. Who needs a suit if you never leave the house . Other than me, of course i was born in a suit we wear ones on weekends people mock me for my saturday night french cuffs lord taylor got sold to latote for 100 million back in september. That was a very smart sale and a very dumb acquisition. Truth be told it actually came as a surprise because i forgot that lord taylor was still in business they had been tore to pieces ive been thinking about this, the advised nature of that maybe they had a wayback machine like mr. Peabody because there was nothing short of time travel was going to save that business. In the end, the whole Department Store category may be vanishing. We know that the much fancier Neiman Marcus has too much debt. Department stores are highly cyclical beasts, always have been they were always going to struggle in a recession. But a recession where their core whitecollar customers work from home 42nd street had a lot of restaurants. New york citys been hostile to Small Businesses any downturn wouldve crushed some of these smaller players. But social distancing is absolutely deadly for nearly all of them. A handful of tables on the sidewalk outside the capital grille seemed like some sort of weird outpost. 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Im jim cramer and i will see you tomorrow welcome to the shark tank, where entrepreneurs seeking an investment will face these sharks. If they hear a great idea, theyll invest their own money or fight each other for a deal. This is shark tank. Who believes his business could be the next big thing in fashion. My name is craig french from long island, new york. My partner deniz and i came up with a Clothing Company called crooked jaw. I came up with the name after breaking my jaw playing college lacrosse