CNBC Investing Club: Cramer’s Morning Take on Amazon 5/5/26
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Jim Kramer here to share a short preview of my take on the market from today's |
| 0:06.4 | members-only CNBC Investing Club morning meeting. Join the club for full access to the morning |
| 0:11.6 | meeting every day at 1020 a.m. Visit cnbc.com slash morning take to sign up today. That's one word |
| 0:20.8 | morning take. I think the most important thing |
| 0:25.7 | is that there's a near-term profit coming. I think a lot of the naysayers are either |
| 0:32.6 | doomers, people who believe that we're all going to be working for machines, or people who |
| 0:37.4 | think that there's no payoff. |
| 0:39.2 | Now, I think that those people were not inside where I was. |
| 0:43.3 | They didn't see the things that I did. |
| 0:46.0 | They don't recognize that the payoff is imminent. |
| 0:49.3 | And that if you think it's going to be far out, |
| 0:51.7 | then you're really going to end up not spending. |
| 0:53.9 | And if you're not going to spend, you're done. |
| 0:57.0 | And I think that Alphabet understands you have to spend. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm not sure Microsoft understands. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm not sure meta understands because it doesn't have a cloud. |
| 1:06.1 | But Amazon understands more than anyone, which is why this stock is that after being dormant for a long time, |
| 1:11.7 | is going to run for a long time. Yeah, that's interesting, because we are seeing a boost to |
| 1:16.4 | revenue from their AI spend, but he's talking about monetizing the big cash outlay for a long |
| 1:24.2 | period of time. I mean, 30 years they could monetize some of these data centers |
| 1:28.5 | for, which will be great for margins, great for free cash flow over this long-term horizon. |
| 1:34.3 | Project Rainier, which is huge, is being viewed as being not a cost, but it's being viewed as a profit. |
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