Cramer’s Picks Time Warner over Comcast

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On tonight’s MAD MONEY, Cramer reviewed some stock basics on risk profiling.  Cramer reviewed non-speculative companies for growth and value.  You go to the most household names in the business:  Cramer noted names that are steady household grwoth companies are Time Warner (TWX) or Comcast (CMCSA) you look at for capital appreciation.

In this growth and "MAD MONEY" group he likes both: TWX has a small dividend but that isn’t the focus of the company and they are trying to boost the share price through buybacks.  Cable is the best asset there and cable will have accelerated revenue growth in 2007.  The growth this year made Comcast the best performer.  He thinks you have to look at the best growth prospects ahead, and Cramer says Comcast has better cable growth propspects.  Cramer also likes the management at Comcast.  BUT…Cramer says he still has to go with Time Warner (TWX) as the pick for 2007.  He said even though Comcast may be better, TWX has more upside because of the negativity still there and the bar for Comcast may be too high. Pasron’s spin-off of cable may be sooner rather than later according to Cramer.  He said this is no offense to Comcast because they are a better company, but they have also had a bigger run in the stock.

TWX shares are up 0.75% at $21.53 after-hours.  If that holds it will be another new multi-year high.

Jon C. Ogg
December 13, 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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