Tales. They barely come true but yesterday they looked like they could become reality. Nasdaq advancing. 42 . Yet today the market embraced the quarterly reports from cocacola, mcdonalds and yum as legitimate turn arounds. Two others are being reevaluated on the fly and could be considered works in progress despite what some might view as dismal disappointing numbers. Emphasis on some because many believe theres a pulse in both where they would have been down substantially. All five are tales of hope that could lead to big gains if theres real follow through. Lets start with the concept of the turn around and why theyre so difficult and so monumental if they work. The pay off could be huge and failure rates extraordinary as very few are able to pull them off. Wall street is littered with sales turn arounds, resurrections that didnt occur. I cant count the Companies Falling by the wayside. Mainframe companies driven out of bisby mini computers. Personal computers obliterated by handsets. Think of the dot coms years ago and almost none could avoid a wipe out. Consider all the retailers that couldnt avoid demise. Circuit city borders. Many were attempting to turn and plain ran out of cash. Others were destroyed by online competition and then theres the rare companies that figured it out. You can see how bountiful these stories can be when they get it right. Starbucks was in free fall after its founder left the company. It resurrected itself after he returned to the helm. What an amazing come back it was and you can see the stocks tremendous journey from 350 to 48. Tomorrow were going to find out how much higher the stock can go. Ill interview schultz on the closing bell at 4 00 to talk about the quarter. Steve jobs leaves the company goes foul. He returns you get the begin ofgning of the greatest turn around in history. Jobs role undeniable. And theres rite aid. Able to refinance and refurbish its way to 8. It purchased a pharmacy benefit manager. Its leading the status of turn around and becoming an investable situation. Where do they stand in their come backs . Lets start with mcdonalds. Ever since steve took over from don thompson at the end of january theres been widespread hope that the once hypergrowth chain could reignite with bold moves to bring up value. This morning mcdonalds reported a quarter universally panned by the media. I say, wait a second. Mcdonalds did the Revenue Growth number meaning it equalled what analysts were looking for in sales and that in itself is a great sign. Chief reason why the stock rallied almost 3 at 3 . Even better he is work on something bold that will be revealed on may 4th. That was tempting. He gave us numbers that werent horrendous. In the meantime that 3. 5 yield keeps you warm until he really does deliver and the Balance Sheet makes that dividend one of the safest around. Yum brands is easy. When you think yum you have to be thinking kfc and when you think kfc you have to be thinking china because the world other than china is saturated with kfcs not to mention pizza hut and taco bells. When it stumbled it wasnt kfcs fault. The Growth Engine sputtered. Uphill ever since. Almost no chain of any kind has ever been able to come back from minus 20 same store sales declines but yum did just as former ceo and now chairman told me it would. Funny chipotle put up 10 same Sales Numbers and the stock got clocked more than 50. Kfc put up minus 12 numbers and because we were looking for minus 15 it was a Huge Positive and will help contribute to 80 Cents Per Share when wall street was looking for 72. Hence how they rallied 3. Yum intends to put up an additional 700 kfcs in china alone. That means more growth ahead. In fact the company said second half will be stronger than the first and thats a real turn. Stock can go higher. Cocacolas come back its harder to spot. A surprise off a 42 cent basis but unit Growth Numbers are nothing to write home about. It was also aided by additional days. Its focussing on profitability, cash flow, innovation cost cutting, advertising, including on the web. It has time to go but it will succeed on its journey. Im beginning to look at cocacola as a conservative call on the growth of monster beverage which about to be using the quarter and the new soda machine that can come out this fall. Remember cocacola has big stakes in both companies. Youre still early but its a lot better to be early than late. Another 3 plus yield situation where youre being paid to wait. How about the more problematic turns, yahoo and ibm. Yahoo had a big headline miss and terrible advertising numbers. Stock was getting crushed until the ceo revealed she was going to find a way to monetize yahoo japan in order to return more capital to shareholders. When you consider the montie montieizationmontie monitization you have a company at less than 0 after that. You may hate yahoo s progress and think the term which includes transferring most of its business to mobile cant succeed but remember the company has a terrific Balance Sheet and can make money on its own away from alibaba or yahoo japan. How can that company stay independent with all of those paid views . No way i say which is why yahoo is a buy here. For those that want to know who is doing well in the online space, look no further than facebook who reported a terrific quarter tonight although selling down because of a jump in expenses and currency head winds. The expenses is the price you pay when you have more opportunities than a yahoo or any other company has. Heres a company in the race against time to become a business that can compete in cloud, social mobile big data and analytics. I think its making progress. I think the quarter showed real promise and thats why the stock has been rallying although like all Tech Companies ibms legacy business can fall off faster than it can build up to smart strategic good parts. In many ways its like yahoo . That said im sure ibms new patron saint warren buffet had to like the quarter. All of these companies have one thing in common. Theyre hard to kill. I think these can succeed. Some more than others but they all make sense to speculate on even after they made pretty big moves. Heres my bottom line. Mcdonalds, yum, coke cola yahoo and ibm are fighting the way back into investors hearts. These fairy tales can happen to you if youre willing to be less critical that you might be about a once busted investment. Steve in texas. Caller ive got a question for you about walmart stock. Yeah sure. Caller i have quite a few shares in it. Should i hold on or let go . Oh i would hold on. I think walmart is going to be able to turn. Its been trading up a little bit. Im not discouraged but i like target much more. Brian cornell continues to deliver which is why target is in my Charitable Trust. You can follow them. And not walmart. Allen in florida. Allen. Caller jimmy a good tim tebow booyah to you. Hes got the same arm i got which means two completions per quarter but go ahead, thank you. Caller what do you think about the newest offer to sell Cyber Security as a service. Yesterday they announced the big deal with Hewitt Packard and announced partnerships with check points and these companies and others use fireyes data. Cramer what do you think of the ceo and their first to market Cyber Security service. I think the leader remains going to be palo alto then fort net then cyber arc and then fireeye but youre right. The tail winds makes them better than the vast majority of Technology Stocks i fire. Lets go to bobby in florida. Caller yes, sir, booyah mr. Cramer. Excellent. Hit me. Caller yes, sir. Talking about the directv merge with at t. The only shot clock i knew was in basketball. What do you say . Were fine. At t reported a terrific quarter tonight. I like what theyre doing. All of that said verizon had a picture perfect quarter but doesnt have as good of yield. Hard to kill is what im calming mcdonalds, yum, cocacola, yahoo and ibm. These plays make sense to speculate on. On mad money tonight how does a theme park post a record quarter when most of its parks are closed. Ill find out with the ceo of one amazing stock, six flags. And then im celebrating earth day with the green energy place that can help your portfolio shine brighter. Plus chiptole is sliced and diced after earnings. Why dont you stick with cramer. 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. 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Thats why i wasnt surprised at all when six flags the largest regional theme park operator, 18 located throughout north america reported a solid quarter this morning. The erngs miss was entirely because of stockbased compensation expenses. More important revenues came in higher than expected. Up 15. 5 year over year. The number of customers with membership plans increased by 50 . Very encouraging as we head into the summer months for the theme park business. Its given us a quick 8 as we had the ceo on at february. Even trading at less than a buck its still got a 4. 3 yield. I like this one very much in the summer. Dont take it for me. Lets check in with the chairman and ceo about six flags. Hear more about the quarter and where his company is headed. Welcome back to mad money. Its great to be on your show. How is it possible that you have a 53 gain in what i sympathy the most important metric i follow of your company. I think you understand the value offering that our season pass and Membership Program is for our guests and i think our guests have worked that out so we had a phenomenal start to the season with both season passes and Membership Programs kicking in and our sales have been astounding as you have described. Up 53 as we go into the peak season and i feel good about that. What does your model show you about people that get one of these passes . How often do they come back . Its interesting. Both with memberships and season pass we see visitation in any year being in the 3 to 4 range. So 3 to 4 times. And as you know jim, every single time they come they spend money. So that active pass holder is the most valuable sort of guest that we can get because on average theyll generate lets say 100 to 120 per season versus 50 to 60 for a single day guest. So pushing that number up is extremely valuable for the company. And again you always tell me that you add something new so when i go to the park this year i see Something Better than i saw last year. Thats really true. We have something new in every park every year. Innovation is in our dna and this year is no different. We have five world record breaking rides that are coming out that are very exciting and every single park has something. Were not only innovating in the rise were innovating in our all season dining pass and various other aspects in the park so i think our guests will be very pleased with what they see. All right. The year over year obviously the decline in gasoline is very important. When you do your analysis of where people come from they there are a lot of people i go to the jersey one. Theres a lot of people within an hour and a half of there. I mean really major metro areas. They might come in abundance with lower gasoline prices this year. I think its fair to say and i know you love this comparison but its fair to say that six flags is the perfect way to play the north american consumer. You know we drive both growth in the share price but also growth in our yield. We have been really well as you described the 4. 2 yield today. When you look at our consumer we have the whole demographicic. We have 175 million guests within 100 miles of the park and the gas price is low. So it appears to be working in our favor. Certainly in the First Quarter with a 13 growth in attendance. Very Strong Performance overall. One of the things i love is that you innovate and not just in terms of technology but you have this idea those of us involved with High School Seniors we dont want them driving after sometimes they get a little carried away. We want them to be in a safe place. This must be a parents dream. Its an absolute dream and very successful in the parks where we implemented and were expanding the number doing it and its been a huge success and growing rapidly. In addition we talked about innovation and we introduced or were going to introduce holiday in the park at your local park Six Flags Great Adventure this year and that will be a Great Success as it has been at the six other parks that had that program. How much do you think was weather . I dont want people to get too carried away in thinking that year over year the numbers were so good. You know how excited i am about the story but i never want people to feel way too bullish if there was something weather related that helped. I think weather was actually not dissimilar to prior years so maybe it was a bit better. But the single greatest factor has been the approach we took to our season pass and Membership Program and really driving that growth early and that has been a huge success for us and the momentum is very very strong jim. Id also echo for you, you know you love cash erngsarnings per share. I know you do. In this last period were up 28 and if you go back four years, four or five years our average is 23 per year. Were in a position now where were really set up well to be able to achieve these goals longterm. Well, you done a remarkable job and you know i recommend your stock to everybody. Its the ultimate play for america and i love your dividend. Your distribution. Fantastic. Chairman and president and ceo of six flags. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you, jim. Its a pleasure always. Thank you one of the easiest stocks to own for people that want growth and income. This is a terrific stock. Stay with cramer. Coming up holy guacamole. 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Since were celebrating earth week this is the time to take a closer look at whats happening in the Green Energy Space because i think some major deals could be in the works here. First of all we know that solar power stocks have been hit hard along side the traditional dirty energy fossil fuel plays and the etf that tracks the solar stocks it was down more than 23 because when the price of oil comes down so does demand for alternative energy or at least thats how the stock market thinking goes. In short the solar stocks got slammed. Most of them are still way off their highs which makes them much more attractive as takeover targets. Funding for Global Clean Energy companies exploded in the public and private markets. According to Mercom Capital total Corporate Funding for the solar sector including Venture Capital to private equity Debt Financing went from 9. 6 billion back in 2013 to 26. 5 billion in 2014. That was an increase out of nowhere. We saw 58 solar deals. In other words, if the group is larger more deep pocketed players are practically overflowing with cash. That tells me the entire Green Energy Sector is ripe for consolidation. I think were very much in the early innings of this story and i want you to cash in. Because of the linkage with it. A big reason these green energy plays are able to raise so much capital has to do with something called yield cos. This is something we discussed a couple of weeks ago. Remember we recommended sun ed edison. Basically many publicly traded Solar Companies have been transferring their completed solar Power Projects to a dividend paying subsidiary which think spin off as separate vehicles. These are the socalled yield cos and those throw off a ton of cash which include the parent solar power company. Why is this so important . It shows how the solar Power Industry has come up with a brilliant new way to raise bundles of capital. When a company like first solar spins off its yield co via Public Offering