Cramer Loves Dolby

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On tonight’s MAD MONEY show on CNBC, Cramer had a new pick that is up and heading higher.  He said he was blown away by Dolby’s (DLB) 45% move up lately.  He said it is everywhere and in everything you hear. Cramer calls it "the Microsoft of the digital experience."

It closed at $28.95, up from $23 recently and up from $a low of well under $20 over the last year.  He thinks the past doesn’t matter and this is going higher.  The stock soared after its last earnings after beating by $0.11 and guiding higher, but he doesn’t think it soared enough.  The new information they divulged signals to Cramer that the estimates are too low and need to go higher.  The estimate is $0.83 to $0.92 projected for next year, but Cramer said he would eat his yellow hard hat if the company doesn’t earn $1.07 next year (he then said he thinks they’ll do $1.00 next year).

He thinks that on top of the music, but this is also a stealth play on the new flat panel TV’s because the HD requires to have new Dolby compliant specs.  The company has a huge margin on its licensing, and the company has even been able to squeeze royalties out of Microsoft.  It has $4.55 cash.  It trades with a lower multiple than its growth rate.

For a reference DLB has been public less than 2 years and it came public at just under $25.00 in early 2005.  DLB has trailing EPS of $0.80 and has a 36 P/E ratio.  Now at $30.00 this is a new all-time high.

Jon C. Ogg
December 7, 2006

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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