Nov 12, 2026 · 44 min
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AI infrastructure faces its profitability test
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 11/11/26
The episode weighs whether surging demand for computing capacity can justify heavy debt, infrastructure spending, and uncertain margins across the AI economy.
- 1AI infrastructure demand remains strong, but debt, politics, and hardware economics complicate the investment case.
- 2Anthropic’s adjusted profitability looks stronger than OpenAI’s, yet enormous infrastructure commitments could pressure its long-term margins.
- 3Restaurant stocks show improving momentum, while Teva pursues a higher-value drug pipeline beyond generics.
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The brief
Cramer argues investors should not abandon AI and data centers despite turmoil around NVIDIA, but says diversification remains essential as the theme’s risks become harder to ignore.
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator makes the infrastructure case: demand for computing capacity exceeds supply, while debt, customer prepayments, pricing power, and political opposition complicate the outlook.
Anthropic’s adjusted profitability compares favorably with deeply unprofitable OpenAI, but its massive future infrastructure commitments raise a harder question about durable margins.
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What was said on this episode
31 statements · 24 positive · 5 negative · 2 mixed
Abandoning data-center stocks may cause investors to miss substantial upside.
“giving up on the data center stocks entirely may cause you to miss a good amount of upside”
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The AI investment theme has substantial further upside.
“we think the AI theme has much more room to run”
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Strong compute demand enables CoreWeave to raise prices and expand gross margins.
“That insatiable demand has allowed him to raise price for his services pretty consistently, which expands his gross margins”
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Nvidia will continue being a strong partner for CoreWeave.
“They will continue to be a great partner for us.”
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Nvidia chips will retain economic value.
“I think the chips are obviously going to be worthwhile”
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Meta is attractive at its current price.
“I like Meta here.”
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Investors should buy Meta if its price falls.
“you get a chance to buy it cheaper, I would go do it”
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Jersey Mike's stock is inexpensive relative to Charlie Morrison's potential impact.
“I think it's an inexpensive stock. Relative to what I think Charlie's going to be able to do”
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Jersey Mike's performance can improve under Charlie Morrison.
“I think they can get better because Charlie's that good.”
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Anthropic first became profitable on an adjusted operating-income basis in Q2 2026.
“Anthropoc became profitable for the first time in the second quarter of 2026.”
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OpenAI remains deeply unprofitable, with a negative 109% adjusted operating margin.
“it is still deeply unprofitable with an adjusted operating margin of negative 109%”
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Anthropic's profitability is substantially better than OpenAI's.
“Anthropic is doing much better on the profitability front than OpenAI.”
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Anthropic is not yet profitable under GAAP accounting.
“Anthropic is not yet profitable.”
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Anthropic's non-cash securities charges should not be completely ignored.
“I'm not sure they should be ignored entirely.”
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Anthropic must continue growing substantially to support its infrastructure commitments.
“you've got to assume that this company is going to continue growing substantially”
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Anthropic must grow rapidly to outrun future costs and remain profitable.
“it needs to continue growing rapidly to outrun those costs and remain profitable”
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Retail and food-services sales grew sequentially in August and September.
“We had sequentially positive retail and food services sales growth in both August and September”
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Investors should continue buying Darden Restaurants.
“I think you should continue to buy the stock.”
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Darden Restaurants' stock will rise further.
“I think it does go higher.”
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Olanzapine is regarded as the most efficacious schizophrenia treatment.
“olanzapine as a molecule is regarded as the most efficacious treatment for schizophrenia”
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Psychiatric professionals and patients have responded positively to Welltrusa.
“the reception we received from the psychiatric community and the patients has been really, really positive”
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Teva's Ajovy sales will exceed $900 million this year and peak above $1 billion.
“This year, we're going to do over $900 million. And we've got peak sales of over a billion dollars.”
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Teva has increased Ajovy market share consecutively.
“We have grown our market share consecutively.”
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“We'll launch Ikepaipan, a treatment for Tourette's syndrome.”
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Alibaba is the only Chinese stock Cramer would potentially buy.
“I think Alibaba is the only Chinese stock that I would possibly buy.”
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Cramer no longer recommends gambling stocks.
“I no longer can possibly recommend any of these gambling stocks”
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Investors should buy Origin Bancorp.
“I think you got a good one, and I actually would encourage you to buy it.”
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Palantir stock is worth $200 per share.
“I think that Palantir stock is worth $200”
Listen at 37:03
The caller should buy more Energy Transfer shares.
“for you, I want you to buy more”
Listen at 37:39
A ten-year-old's portfolio should include higher-growth investments.
“you have to buy something that has more growth to it”
Listen at 37:45
Investors do not need another cloud-security platform beyond CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks.
“we don't need any more beyond that”
Listen at 38:32
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