Jim Cramer Calls Boeing (BA) ‘Snake Bit’: “I’m Picking Other Ways to Play Aerospace”

Insider Monkey
18 Apr

We recently published a list of 12 Stocks on Jim Cramer’s Radar Recently. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) stands against other stocks that on Jim Cramer’s radar recently.

On Tuesday, Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, criticized the market’s reaction, or lack thereof, to the recent dip in long-term interest rates. He pointed out that the 10-year Treasury yield had fallen back to 4.3%, yet barely anyone took notice. “Maybe, just maybe, it’s no big deal,” he said.

“Long-term interest rates plunged today, but did you hear a word about it? Nobody paid any attention to the interest rate decline. I never heard anyone talk about it, especially the very people who kept warning that ever higher rates were signaling that our financial system was in real trouble.”

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Cramer said that the same voices who claimed that higher rates were indicative of a collapsing faith in the U.S. economy, a threat to the dollar’s reserve currency status, and harbingers of hyperinflation or stagflation suddenly had nothing to say now that rates were moving in the opposite direction.

He quipped, “Let’s get some ex-Federal Reserve people or even some live ones to tell us that the party’s over.”  He called out what he sees as an eagerness among some to spread gloom whenever it suits their narrative. When the rates drop, he noted, the reaction is indifference. He added:

“That’s how this issue’s been covered for ages, but it’s only gotten worse since Trump has sworn in.”

Cramer acknowledged the seriousness of the United States’ $36 trillion national debt and said he does not blame people for being concerned about Treasury yields. However, he insisted that if people are going to sound the alarm when yields rise, they should at least acknowledge or feel some level of reassurance when they decline. Cramer admitted that the political climate in Washington is confusing and, at times, legitimately troubling for markets. He added:

“But like yesterday, when I opined about the chicken littles who tell us that a weak dollar means a weak country and a terrible stock market, I’m going to demand that people stop making Treasury mountains out of Treasury molehills.”

Our Methodology

For this article, we compiled a list of 12 stocks that were discussed by Jim Cramer during the episode of Mad Money aired on April 15. We listed the stocks in ascending order of their hedge fund sentiment as of the fourth quarter of 2024, which was taken from Insider Monkey’s database of over 1,000 hedge funds.

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The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 103

A caller asked Cramer’s assessment of The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) over the next 12 to 18 months. This is what Cramer had to say in response:

“I just think that if we don’t respond correctly to help Boeing instead of just picking on all the time, and then the old regime did do some things wrong, then Boeing’s going to be a tough stock to own, but they do have a lot of cash. They don’t have great cash flow. I think it’s okay. I’d rather, I’m picking other ways to play aerospace now because Boeing seems to just had, it’s snake bit. What can I say?”

Boeing (NYSE:BA) is engaged in designing, building, producing, and promoting a range of products. These include commercial jets, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense systems, and projects related to space exploration. Sound Shore Management stated the following regarding The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:

“The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA): A detractor for the period was global aerospace leader Boeing. We were able to purchase the stock at a prospective 10% free cash flow yield on a normalized scenario. Over the past couple of years the stock rebounded from operational challenges and had surged on improved free cash generation from increasing order activity, driven by global demand for aircraft. It was one of our best performers in the fourth quarter of 2023 after its November plane deliveries increased. When additional manufacturing issues surfaced in January 2024, we believed it would push restructuring efforts back enough to warrant a review by our team. Reacting quickly, we sold our position at a gain in the first quarter, albeit less than before the news.”

Overall, BA ranks 3rd on our list of stocks that on Jim Cramer’s radar recently. While we acknowledge the potential of BA as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than BA but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

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