If you invested $1,000 in Inverse Cramer at the start of 2025, here’s your return now

Jim Cramer, a former hedge fund manager and the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has a long-standing reputation for being wrong.

His consistently off-mark remarks have become somewhat of a meme, resulting in so-called ‘Inverse Cramer’ strategies of investing in equities he warns against and selling those he is fond of.

Quiver Quant’s Inverse Cramer Strategy is built around this exact principle, taking Cramer’s ten most-recommended stocks from the past 30 days, both bullish and bearish, and hedging the position with a long stake in the market index. 

Looking at its performance this year, however, it seems that the strategy is actually validating its namesake, being down 4.99% since January 1. 

In other words, a $1,000 investment in Inverse Cramer at the start of 2025 would have left you with $950.10. 

Jim Cramer’s most recent takes

During the August 27 episode of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Cramer touched on the growing concerns regarding artificial intelligence (AI) in the wake of Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) earnings report.

The host dismissed the fears of the so-called AI bubble, arguing that big tech’s massive spending on the new technology is justified.

“I don’t care about the seemingly sky-high market capitalization that these stocks have. I’m simply trying to put a valuation on a company that makes what you need to become one of the serious players in AI.” 

While Nvidia topped earnings and revenue estimates, its data center revenue fell short of expectations, causing the chip maker’s stock to slip more than 3% in after-hours trading.

Cramer attributed the dip to sky-high expectations heading into the report, calling the quarter positive but “kind of an anticlimax” and adding that the likes of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) would be other likely winners. 

Now it remains to be seen whether his words will come true or once again spell doom for his favorites.

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