With the stock market deeply oversold this week, we put money to work by picking stocks across a variety of sectors including energy, technology and materials. We also added a former Club chipmaker to our Bullpen and upgraded a premium beer name to a buy rating. Finally, Friday’s market reversal helped us make good on a pledge to trim a once-downtrodden health-care stock. Here’s a day-by-day take a look at our portfolio moves in a choppy week of trading, undergirded by investor concerns over the state of the economy and rising bond yields. Monday Early into Monday’s session, we scooped up 200 shares of Coterra Energy (CTRA) – the primary time in roughly two months that we added to our position within the oil-and-gas producer. With the market oversold, per the S & P 500 Short Range Oscillator , our investment discipline called for us to go looking for any dislocations inside the portfolio. And Coterra fit the bill because its stock price didn’t appropriately reflect the recent rally in natural gas, one which has only gained steam throughout the week. On Friday, natural gas futures jumped 5%, to trade at roughly $3.33 per million British thermal units, or MMBtu. Tuesday The market entered Tuesday’s session at its most oversold since March, so we once more searched for places to strategically deploy a few of our money. That led us to coffee giant Starbucks (SBUX), which has been dogged by investor concerns over the health of its business in China. At the identical time, we also added Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to the Bullpen , our repository of stocks into consideration to affix the portfolio. Later in Tuesday’s session, as market declines mounted, we nibbled on Broadcom (AVGO) stock. China’s slower-than-expected post-Covid economic recovery has been a thorn within the side of many U.S. stocks, including Starbucks. After closing at $114.46 per share on May 1, the stock began to drift lower for months, closing at its lowest level of the 12 months Tuesday, at $89.48 per share. But the explanation we stepped in to purchase 50 shares Tuesday is because risks stemming from China – the coffee maker’s second-largest market, behind the U.S. – have mostly been factored into its stock price. We’re giving AMD a re-evaluation lower than two months after exiting our position within the chipmaker — swapping in rival Broadcom as an alternative – because we have developed a greater understanding of its role inside the broader semiconductor space. To be certain, we have not taken further motion on AMD stock, but usually we’re warming to it and closely watching the corporate’s standing in the factitious intelligence race. Tech stocks remained under pressure Tuesday afternoon, giving us a possibility to purchase 7 shares of Broadcom and lower our cost basis. The acquisition also served to grow our position in Broadcom before its megadeal for data-center software maker VMWare (VMW) is accomplished. Management has said it expects to shut the deal by Oct. 30. Thursday We sat on our hands Wednesday, as Wall Street rallied after payroll processing firm ADP reported private sector job gains in September well below expectations. But stocks returned to the red Thursday, and the market remained firmly in oversold territory. We made two separate buys against this backdrop, starting with 65 shares of DuPont de Nemours (DD) and later returning to the beaten-down tech sector to buy 75 more shares of Oracle (ORCL). And we upgraded beer maker Constellation Brands (STZ) to a 1 rating — denoting that we could be buyers at current levels — as its stock slid 3% despite releasing better-expected quarterly results and raising its full-year guidance. Thursday marked the primary time since Aug. 18 that we added to our position in chemicals giant DuPont and just our third trade within the name overall. We initiated a position on Aug. 7 for its robust capital-return potential and its exposure to the semiconductor-and-electronics industry. Oracle’s stock remained trapped in its post-earnings malaise Thursday, amid a broader tech slump. But, as we argued in mid-September within the initial aftermath of the report, we remain confident in the flexibility of Oracle’s cloud business to profit from growth in AI workloads. That belief undergirded our small purchase Thursday afternoon, just because it did Sept. 18 and Sept. 26 after we bought Oracle into weakness. Oracle still trades at an undemanding valuation relative to its tech peers. The strength of Constellation Brands’ beer business – led by Modelo and Corona – was on display in its fiscal 2024 second-quarter print Thursday. That did not stop its stock from declining for the past two trading sessions. But, as Jim stressed Friday, a significant catalyst looms for Constellation: an investor day on Nov. 2, during which we hope to listen to a technique update influenced by activist investor Elliott Management. Friday A stronger-than-anticipated September jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department initially took stocks lower Friday, as bond yields popped on the news. Nonetheless, the market reversed course in midday trading, with all three major U.S. stock benchmarks trading sharply higher. The strengthening market helped push shares of Humana (HUM) back above the $500 level – our cue to ring the register on 15 shares . We would been eyeing the $500-per-share level for a while, as Humana’s stock began to get better from an 18% fall in early summer over fears about higher medical costs. Eventually, sentiment began to show around, and Humana’s earnings report on Aug. 2 offered more assurances to investors that earnings would remain resilient. We remained aboard despite the turbulence and made one purchase into the June weakness. While the stock is not back to its May highs, it still made sense Friday to lock in hard-fought profits. We also downgraded the stock to a 2 rating, meaning we might wait for a pullback before buying up more shares. (Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust is long CTRA, SBUX, AVGO, ORCL, DD, HUM and STZ . See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you’ll receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. If Jim has talked a few stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. 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With the stock market deeply oversold this week, we put money to work by picking stocks across a variety of sectors including energy, technology and materials. We also added a former Club chipmaker to our Bullpen and upgraded a premium beer name to a buy rating. Finally, Friday’s market reversal helped us make good on a pledge to trim a once-downtrodden health-care stock.
