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Squawk on the Street

Cramer’s Morning Take: Corning 1/27/26

Squawk on the Street

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Business, News, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Cramer says don’t sell this stock because it could reach $200 per share. Become a CNBC Investing Club member to go behind the scenes with Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks as they talk candidly about the market’s biggest headlines. Signup here: cnbc.com/morningtake CNBC Investing Club Disclaimer

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0:00.0

I'm Jim Kramer and you're about to hear a sample taken directly from today's

0:06.5

CNBC Investing Club morning meeting.

0:10.0

Let's talk about Corning next because I think there was a big validation of our thesis today.

0:15.0

This was news.

0:16.0

A CNBC exclusive, META is paying Corning $6 billion through 2030 for fiber-optic cable and AI data centers.

0:24.5

Corning, they're also going to expand a facility in North Carolina to accommodate growing demand from

0:29.1

meta and other big spenders like NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, the big hypers.

0:35.5

And when complete, this is going to be the largest fiber optic cable plant in the world.

0:40.3

Company reports tomorrow, stocks up huge, 15%.

0:43.3

It's the biggest gainer in the S&P 500 today.

0:46.3

But yeah, it's exactly what we've been waiting for these deals because copper is too expensive,

0:52.3

it runs hot.

0:53.3

And I don't think people realize that if you go into a data center like I have, it's

0:59.2

just filled with copper.

1:00.9

There's copper within the chips that's still going to be there, but there's copper

1:04.1

that connects the different ones.

1:05.9

So there'll be, let me just be a little.

1:08.1

So you have these racks, okay, server racks, and they're connected,

1:14.1

and this is all copper. All these connections are copper. And they are going to be pulled out,

1:22.4

and fiber will come in. Copper is really expensive. Fiber is very cheap. Fiber burns much cooler than copper.

1:29.7

So if it's good for meta, it will be good for every hyper-scaler. Don't sell the stock,

1:35.6

except the fact that, like I was saying with Starbucks yesterday, when it goes up like this,

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