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CNBC analyst Jim Cramer is once again being bashed on social media after a clip resurfaced showing the “Mad Money” host recommending viewers buy shares of Silicon Valley Bank’s SVB parent company, which owns the tech-driven commercial lender that collapsed on Friday.
“The ninth-best performer to date has been SVB Financial (the bank’s parent company). Don’t yawn,” Cramer told viewers during a Feb. 8 episode of “Mad Money.”
Cramer listed SVB Financial among his “biggest winners of 2023 … so far” alongside blue-chip stocks such as Meta, Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Norwegian Cruise Line.
“This company is a merchant bank with a deposit base that Wall Street has mistakenly been concerned by,” Cramer said in the clip. (Watch below).
One month ago, Jim Cramer urged investors to buy Silicon Valley Bank stock $SIVB, saying it was "still cheap" and has "room to run."
The stock's value has since dropped by 66% following concerns that the bank is on the brink of collapsing. pic.twitter.com/5jgjqTGxld
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) March 10, 2023
Cramer touted the fact that the bank was “less dependent upon private equity and venture capital offerings.”
He said the stock was the “fourth-worst performer of 2022” though it was worth buying because “being a banker to these immense pools of capital has always been a very good business.”
“The stock is still cheap,” Cramer said. At the time, SVB Financial was trading at $320.40 a share.
On social media, critics of Cramer made sure to remind others of the now-ill-fated stock tip.
“One month ago, Jim Cramer urged investors to buy Silicon Valley Bank stock,” one Twitter user observed, adding: “Today, the bank was closed by California regulators, making it the 2nd largest banking failure in US history.”
Another Twitter user wrote: “At first it was funny that Jim Cramer was always wrong.”
“Now it’s extremely sad how many people and families he’s destroyed by always being wrong.”
“The guy needs to be taken off the air for good.”
Genevieve Roch-Decter wrote on Twitter: “Jim Cramer said a month ago Silicon Valley Bank was a buy.”
“He also said Bear Sterns (the investment firm that collapsed in the subprime mortgage crisis) was fine in 2008. This man deserves an Oscar.”
Cramer is a frequent target of scorn and ridicule on social media, where observers point out some of his market predictions that fail to materialize.