Jim Cramer attributes market resilience to Big Tech’s earnings success

CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed Monday’s market action and told investors that stocks’ rebound from last week was lead by positive news from the Magnificent Seven Tech stocks — Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla.

“Now, some of that may be because…the Fed has to cut, maybe even before September — I mean, that’s how weak the employment numbers are,” he said. “But at the heart of the market’s resilience is, well…the Magnificent Seven.”

The indexes closed in the red on Friday as investors worried about a much weaker-than-expected labor report and President Donald Trump’s modification of “reciprocal” tariffs on a number of countries. But stocks reversed course on Monday, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.34%, the S&P 500 added 1.47% and the Nasdaq Composite surged 1.95%.

The market doesn’t seem to be concerned that Trump suddenly fired the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, and accused her of manipulating jobs data, Cramer said. Many of stocks that had been strong on Thursday but sank on Friday proceeded to recoup their losses during Monday’s session, he pointed out.

Cramer reviewed recent earnings from the tech titans, starting with Microsoft. He called the quarter “flawless,” saying the company seems to be doing well in every segment of business. He noted that its cloud infrastructure division, Azure, saw a huge acceleration in growth. Cramer was also impressed with some figures from Meta’s recent report, especially management’s claim that 3.5 billion people use at least one Meta product a day.

Alphabet is seeing success throughout the company, Cramer said, including its Google search business, Youtube and AI product, Gemini. He also said the Waymo business is building a nice lead over the rest of the autonomous vehicle space. Apple had a “tremendous” report, Cramer continued, emphasizing its better-than-expected growth. He was encouraged by management’s comments on artificial intelligence innovations in the future. Amazon also did well, Cramer continued, with good results from retail sales and advertising revenue, as well as decent numbers from the web services division.

While Cramer said Tesla’s vehicle business is poor, he said it’s doing very well as a tech company. He suggested it’s worth owning for its autonomous driving and robots. Although Nvidia has yet to report, Cramer expressed optimism about the chipmaker and demand for its products.

“Even though the Mag Seven has one hand tied behind its back with Tesla, we had tepid reactions to Apple and Amazon’s numbers,” he said. “The fact is that these companies, loaded with cash, not outrageously expensive — nation states, I call them — with multiple revenue streams and tight expenses, just can’t be beat by any stretch of the numbers or the imagination.”

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Disclaimer The CNBC Investing Club Charitable Trust owns shares of Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Alphabet.