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Jim Cramer says these stocks show why you need to trade on fundamentals, not fear

Cnbc · · 676 words · By Alexa LoMonaco
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13 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“all three major U.S. averages fell roughly 0.6% [on Tuesday]”
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The provided web search results discuss various market movements (Sensex, Nifty, Berkshire Hathaway), but none specifically confirm that the three major U.S. averages fell roughly 0.6% on the Tuesday in question.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sensex Today, Stock Market Live Updates: Sensex, Nifty up as market nears close. Sensex rallied over 1600 points while Nifty was up by 503 points at 1.35 pm on Tuesday, a day after recording a major d…
https://indianexpress.com/article/business/market/stock-mark…
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web search NEUTRAL — Both descents represent the quickest 20% and 30% respective declines in the history of the U.S. stock market.Since the stock market peaked on Feb. 19, Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio has lost approxima…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/02/these-5-stocks-hav…
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web search NEUTRAL — Overvalued Stocks. Major World Market Indices. Real-time major world indices live - including the latest price, daily high, low and percentage change for each index.
https://www.investing.com/indices/major-indices
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“CrowdStrike... saw its shares plunge in 2024 after a faulty software update disrupted millions of Microsoft systems globally.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources (Fortune, The Register) confirm that CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update on July 19, 2024, causing global disruptions to Microsoft Windows systems and causing shares to plunge.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 19 July 2024, the American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers runn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In July 2024, Delta Air Lines, a major U.S. carrier and one of the largest airlines in the world, experienced an operational disruption following the 2024 CrowdStrike incident including the cancelatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Delta_Air_Lines_disruptio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike
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“The stock [CrowdStrike] lost more than a third of its value within a month”
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While evidence confirms the stock plummeted and there was a global outage, none of the provided sources specify that the stock lost 'more than a third of its value within a month'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 19 July 2024, the American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers runn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In July 2024, Delta Air Lines, a major U.S. carrier and one of the largest airlines in the world, experienced an operational disruption following the 2024 CrowdStrike incident including the cancelatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Delta_Air_Lines_disruptio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike
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“By the end of 2024... the stock [CrowdStrike] was back above its pre-outage levels”
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The evidence mentions the stock dropping and subsequent legal battles, but no source provides the specific price recovery data to confirm it was back above pre-outage levels by the end of 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 19 July 2024, the American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers runn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In July 2024, Delta Air Lines, a major U.S. carrier and one of the largest airlines in the world, experienced an operational disruption following the 2024 CrowdStrike incident including the cancelatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Delta_Air_Lines_disruptio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike
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“Anthropic recently touted its new Mythos model, with the AI startup highlighting its effectiveness at spotting software vulnerabilities.”
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Web search results explicitly mention Anthropic's new AI model 'Mythos' and its claims regarding cybersecurity and spotting vulnerabilities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. [7] .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 4, 2026 · Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company that recently fought the Pentagon over the use of its technology, has built a new A.I. model that it claims is too powerful to be released …
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/anthropic-clai…
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“KeyBanc upgraded the stock [CrowdStrike] to a buy-equivalent rating”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm KeyBanc upgraded CrowdStrike to 'Overweight' (a buy-equivalent rating) on Tuesday, April 21, with a $525 price target.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bonds
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The detention of Mahmoud Khalil (March 8–June 20, 2025; 104 days) was the US federal government's incarceration and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia University and a lead…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Midway Blitz is an operation by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted in and around Chicago, Illinois, starting on September 9, 2025. The United States Depart…
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“The stock [CrowdStrike] soared 3.8% even as the broader market struggled.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Earlier this year, CrowdStrike acquired Flow Security, expanding capabilities in data observability and governance, which adds up to list of reasons to own CRWD shares in the second half of 2025. Crow…
https://www.barchart.com/story/news/33964062/google-is-ditch…
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web search NEUTRAL — On June 3, CrowdStrike reported its results for Q1 of fiscal 2026. Here are the highlights: Total revenue was $1.1 billion, a 20% increase from $921 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2025.
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/crowdstrike-stock-tumbl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Finally, CrowdStrike's forward price/earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio, which takes into account the company's impressive growth trajectory, is 1.88, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.Stocks Me…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/08/18/2-nasdaq-stocks-to…
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“Microsoft... setting an all-time intraday high above $555 in late July, the stock dropped all the way to $356 by late March”
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The provided evidence for Microsoft consists of general company descriptions and product pages; no specific stock price data for July ($555) or March ($356) is present in the evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Word, or simply Word, is a word processing program developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the original name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent ve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft AI, a division of Microsoft. Based on OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-5 series of large language models, it was launched…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot
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“Microsoft... closed Tuesday at $424.16 a share.”
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“Blackstone... the stock slid from around $130 to near $100”
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“It [Blackstone] ended Tuesday at $128.50 a share, though it traded as high as $133.25 during the session.”
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“the return of former CEO Stephen Hemsley in May 2025 helped restore investors confidence [in UnitedHealth Group].”
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“Cramer's Charitable Trust... owns shares of CrowdStrike and Microsoft.”
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