Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the stock market Thursday

Cnbc · 🇮🇷 public Iran · May 28, 2026 · 755 words · By Jim Cramer

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What to know about AI Market Optimism

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the PCE index, matched expectations with a 3.8% year-over-year increase.

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What happened

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the PCE index, matched expectations with a 3.8% year-over-year increase.

Why it matters

Yes, it's a high number but at least it wasn't hot.

Common ground

I talked about all 33 of our Investing Club stocks on yesterday's May Monthly Meeting , and even a few data center-tied ideas outside the portfolio.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that D.A. Davidson hiked its Micron price target to $1,500 from $1,000?
How does this story connect AI Market Optimism with Stock Market Speculation over the next few days?

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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 80% confidence

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Why it matters: Recognizing exaggeration / hyperbole helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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Claim 1: “D.A. Davidson hiked its Micron price target to $1,500 from $1,000”

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Multiple sources (Yahoo Finance, Reddit, and a stock quote page) confirm D.A. Davidson raised its Micron price target to $1,500 from $1,000 on May 28, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_500_companies

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stephenson 2 DFK 1, also known as RSGC2-01 or St2-18 or better known as Stephenson 2-18 , is a red supergiant (RSG) or possible extreme red hypergiant (RHG) star in the constellation of Scutum. It lie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson_2_DFK_1

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Claim 2: “The stock is down over 1.5% around $174.”

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While evidence mentions Salesforce stock prices and fair value estimates around $174, there is no specific evidence confirming a drop of 'over 1.5% around $174' on the specific date of the report.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that has been active since 2019 and is said to have been involved in a significant number of data breaches. ShinyHunters has utilized c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Salesforce, Inc., is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is primarily known for its customer relationship management software and related applicatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Salesforce Tower, formerly known as Transbay Tower, is a 61-story supertall skyscraper at 415 Mission Street, between First and Fremont Street, in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisc…
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Claim 3: “CEO Mark Zuckerberg said a Meta cloud computing business is "definitely on the table" if they have excess capacity.”

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Claim 4: “Meta is starting to sell subscriptions for its AI chatbot... Basic tier for $7.99, with a premium plan costing $19.99.”

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Claim 5: “Wells Fargo cut its price target to $200 from $210.”

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Three independent web sources explicitly state that Wells Fargo lowered its price target for Salesforce from $210 to $200 on May 28, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentinian and American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Three of his most notable b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States, that serves as its main central business district and had 372,829 jobs according to U.S. census tracts as of 2012–…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of companies based in San Francisco, California. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses, based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies in 2024.
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Claim 6: “Shares are up another 9%-plus after already doubling over the past three months.”

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Claim 7: “It's doing so by forming alignments with Amazon Web Services and just inked a $6 billion spending deal.”

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Three independent web sources confirm Snowflake signed a $6 billion spending deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) over five years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A flame graph is a software profiling visualization technique that allows for the rapid identification of hot spots in computer programs from stack trace data. Flame graphs were created by Australian…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park. It operates a platform that supports data analysis and simultaneous a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets (overlay networks) that use the Internet, but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark…
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Claim 8: “JPMorgan took HP to $26 from $22, while Citi raised to $25 from $20.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding JPMorgan or Citi's price targets for HP.

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Claim 9: “They're also rolling out their Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp subscriptions globally.”

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Claim 10: “Mizuho upped its price target to $350 from $300 ahead of the release.”

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Claim 11: “TD Cowen hiked its price target on the laptop maker to $26 from $20 on its better-than-expected second quarter.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding TD Cowen's price target for HP.

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Claim 12: “Dell shares are up more than 4% to around $318.”

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Claim 13: “Snowflake... Shares are soaring more than 35% this morning.”

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Web search results from May 27 and 28, 2026, report Snowflake shares 'soaring' and 'surging 36%' following an Amazon deal and earnings beat.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is because the many small cry…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Snowflake data breach refers to a large-scale cybersecurity incident in 2024 involving unauthorized access to customer cloud environments hosted on Snowflake Inc., a cloud-based data and AI platfo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_data_breach

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Claim 14: “The Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the PCE index, matched expectations with a 3.8% year-over-year increase.”

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Multiple independent web sources (Trading Economics and a news report from May 28, 2026) confirm the PCE price index rose 3.8% year-on-year in April 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Core PCE year over year is forecast to rise 3.3% in April after increasing 3.2% in March. PCE Price Index vs. Core PCE Price Index.
https://www.morningstar.com/economy/april-pce-report-seen-sh…

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web search NEUTRAL — United States PCE Price Index Annual Change. Summary; Forecast; Calendar; Alerts. The US PCE price index rose 3.8% year-on-year in April 2026, the highest since ...
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/pce-price-index-a…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index rises 3.8% on year-over-year basis in April · Core PCE inflation advances 3.3% on year-over-year ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-pce-inflation-firmer-apr…

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Claim 15: “Shares are up 3.5% on the print.”

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Different sources report different percentage increases for Marvell shares: one reports 2.76%, another nearly 5%, and another nearly 10%. None specifically confirm exactly 3.5% on the print.

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web search NEUTRAL — The stock’s performance followed its Q2 2026 earnings report, where it met consensus estimates with $0.67 earnings per share (EPS) and $2.01 billion in revenue, a 57.6% year-over-year increase.
https://www.ainvest.com/news/marvell-shares-rise-2-76-q2-ear…

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web search NEUTRAL — April 20 (Reuters) - Marvell Technology's shares jumped nearly 5% on Monday following a report that Alphabet's Google is in talks with the chip designer to develop two new chips aimed at running AI mo…
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-04-20/mar…

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web search NEUTRAL — Following the news and its quarterly earnings report, Marvell’s shares rose nearly 10% in premarket trading on Wednesday, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
https://news.az/news/marvell-shares-surge-on-325b-celestial-…

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Claim 16: “Oppenheimer upgraded Quanta Services to buy from hold”

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Claim 17: “a hedge found founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner disclosed a 5.6% stake.”

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Claim 18: “Salesforce showed strong growth in Agentforce and strong earnings growth last night”

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Web search results confirm Salesforce reported record results for FY2026 and that the Agentforce platform is gaining momentum with nearly $800 million in ARR.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 27, 2026 ... “We remain confident in delivering organic revenue acceleration in the second half of FY27, driven by growth in Sales, Service, Slack, ...
https://investor.salesforce.com/news/news-details/2026/Sales…

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 25, 2026 ... Salesforce Delivers Record Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results ; GAAP ; Revenue. $11.03 - $11.08 billion ; Revenue growth · 12% - 13% ; Revenue growth ...
https://investor.salesforce.com/news/news-details/2026/Sales…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 25, 2026 ... Salesforce's Agentforce platform is gaining solid momentum. Agentforce's annual recurring revenues (ARR) reached nearly $800 million in the ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/agentforce…

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