Cramer is Taking a Break on Google (GOOG, YHOO)

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On tonight’s MAD MONEY show on CNBC, Cramer said he is taking a break on Google (GOOG-NASDAQ).  He has noted that it was a tech exception before, and he said he is not backing away from his $600 target.  What he did say is that it is right now acting as a marked-time stock and it needs to fall down to $450.00.  If you hold it right now he thinks you won’t have much upside in the immediate future.  He still thinks it is the best web search company out there, but he thinks there are 3 Internet stocks that can offer more upside from the Google withdrawals.  If you have been reading about Cramer or watching him regularly, you will know that he sort of started changing his wildly bullish stance early in February. GOOG fell 0.3% in after-hours after falling 1.2%.

His #3 pick is Yahoo! (YHOO-NASDAQ) with better upside. Panama is working well for the company, and Cramer was showing this after the comScore data this morning.  He admitted that the YHOO stock is a lot hotter than the company.  YHOO shares gained 0.8% to $32.40 in after-hours trading.  As a reminder, this is roughly $10.00 higher than its lows.  Cramer also thinks that the company warned twice and it can actually beat the lowered estimates.  Cramer said that if Semel would resign, this stock could still rise  big if he stepped down.  He is still on our list of CEO’s that need to go, now we’ll have to see if he stays.

Cramer will have his #2 pick you can use instead of GOOG, but he won’t give the real #1 pick until later this evening after the lightning round.

Jon C. Ogg
February 26, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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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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