This is our second trade alert of the day

December 17, 2024 | 02:57pm

After taking morning profits, we're afternoon buyers of 2 stocks in an oversold market

This is our second trade alert of the day

We're buying 25 shares of Home Depot at roughly $407 each and 14 shares of Blackrock at roughly $1,041. Following Tuesday's trades, Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust will own 200 shares of HD, increasing its weighting to 2.25% from about 2%. The Trust portfolio, used by the CNBC Investing Club, will own 75 shares of BLK after the trade, increasing its weighting to about 2.15% from about 1.75%. This is our second trade alert of the day. We raised cash Tuesday morning by trimming our position in Broadcom to lock in triple-digit percentage gains into the stock's recent parabolic move; and also by selling Advanced Micro Devices shares on fundamental concerns. Those were sales made out of discipline. But there is another discipline we must honor: the S & P 500 Short Range Oscillator . This technical tool showed that the market became a little more oversold after Monday's session. When the market is oversold, according to the Oscillator, we view broader market weakness as an opportunity to buy stock of quality companies. That's why we are putting cash to work. HD YTD mountain Home Depot YTD One quality stock we're buying into its recent weakness is Home Depot. Shares of the home improvement retailer have pulled back about 6% from its recent high and have dipped slightly since the company reported a better-than-expected third quarter . We were very encouraged by Home Depot's earnings report, which showed the smallest decline in comparable sales in nearly two years. This was a good sign that business is bottoming and will inflect positively next year. BLK YTD mountain BlackRock YTD We're also adding to our position in the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock. Our most recent buy was last Monday shortly after the firm announced its $12 billion acquisition of HPS Investment Partners. This was a great deal for BlackRock because it will make it a leader in private credit, which is one of the fastest-growing areas of finance. Once the acquisition is completed, BlackRock will become a top-five credit manager with about $220 billion in pro-forma private credit client assets. Not only does the deal add to BlackRock's growing fee base, we would argue that the stock should command a higher price-to-earnings multiple in the market as a result. The company's recent buying spree into faster-growing opportunities like HPS and the recently closed Global Infrastructure Partners deal should cause the stock's multiple to re-rate from a traditional money manager to that of an alternative manager, which generally gets a higher valuation in the market. (Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust is long BLK. See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will 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 about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. NO SPECIFIC OUTCOME OR PROFIT IS GUARANTEED.

This story originally appeared on: CNBC - Author:Jeff Marks