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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: Eli Lilly & Salesforce 2/27/24

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Jim Cramer discusses the Club’s recommendation to buy Eli Lilly. Cramer also says there’s a ‘red flag’ for Salesforce ahead of earnings. 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

Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's CNBC Investing Club

0:06.3

morning meeting.

0:07.3

Now, what is the single biggest theme that we're seeing in the market?

0:13.5

I think it's a little behind in the scenes, it's a little subtle, but it's cybersecurity.

0:17.8

I mean, right now, there's apparently a very big hack.

0:19.6

I don't use United Health

0:21.1

anymore. But if you're opt-in, apparently there are people who are having trouble getting

0:25.2

their prescriptions fill. Well, that's obviously a negative. And since we're in a business

0:30.0

where you can switch from United Health to Eumana very easily or another company, it's very bad

0:36.1

for, it's very, very bad for United. I bring all this up because

0:40.3

it shows you every single week there'll be a hack that makes it so you should be long Palo Alto.

0:45.3

And that was why we aggressively recommended it over the weekend or a meeting. It's why I think once again it is up.

0:52.3

The history of these cybersecurity stocks is they'll have a

0:55.9

glitch, the stock will go down, and you have to buy the glitch. And that's what happened

0:59.2

Palo Alto. Now, there's an entrant for the GLP-1, which we know are the wonder drugs

1:05.2

that Eli Lilly and Novo had. There's a Viking therapeutic. You'll see the stock is up huge today.

1:11.1

That's a competitor. They have a phase two trial, which looks like it's a Viking therapeutic. You'll see the stock is up huge today. That's a competitor.

1:12.3

They have a phase two trial, which looks like it's a little bit better in terms of the

1:16.7

speed to weight reduction than Eli Lilly.

1:20.0

What the press doesn't seem to understand is that Eli Lilly has a phase three, this is

1:24.6

phase two, to make it so it could go faster and lose as much weight

1:30.0

as this one. Viking, to me, represents, again, without the major backing of a pharmaceutical

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