Monday, October 19, 2009
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Stock Smackdown: Cramer vs. CAPS
by Rich Duprey
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There's no denying that Mad Moneyhost Jim Cramer is entertaining, popular, and passionate. On many occasions, he's even right. So he's smart, funny, and the closest thing to a stock market rock star-- but is he smarter than you?

Cramming for Cramer
The Fool's free investing community, Motley Fool CAPS, aggregates the opinion of more than 140,000 members to assign ratings for each stock's likelihood of outperforming or underperforming the market.

Below, we look at some top stocks that Cramer picked and panned during last week's "lightning rounds," and compare them to the CAPS community's opinion of their future.

Stock

Lightning Round Show Date

Cramer's Rating  

CAPS Rating (out of 5)

American Express (NYSE: AXP)

Monday

Bullish

***

Chevron

Monday

Bullish

****

Celgene (Nasdaq: CELG)

Tuesday

Bullish

****

United Parcel Service

Tuesday

Bullish

***

Huntington Bancshares (Nasdaq: HBAN)

Wednesday

Bullish

**

Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX)

Wednesday

Bullish

****

Suntech Power (NYSE: STP)

Thursday

Bearish

****

Wendy's/Arby's (NYSE: WEN) Continued...

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