We recently published a list of Jim Cramer Answers If the Market Has Bottomed and Weighs In On 11 Stocks. In this article, we are going to take a look at where American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ:AAL) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer discusses.

On Monday, Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money, highlighted how the market has turned upside down, with investors now buying stocks that they used to dislike, saying:

“If you told me this is where the market was headed two or three months ago, I would have thought you were insane, even crazier than I am. This radical transition over the past few weeks has just been frankly unfathomable. We’re now buying stocks we hated and we’re despising, and guess what we are now selling short the stocks that we used to worship. And it’s all happening on the fly. […] You can’t tell what’s underneath though but that makes it much easier for those real seekers who want to surf the Trump ‘stock wave’.”

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Cramer centered the episode around the question on every investor’s mind: has the market finally bottomed?

“Fresh off a turbulent week for the tape, I’m opening up the phone lines and answering your most pressing questions because are we at a bottom? That’s what everybody wants to know. […] Well, the tariff exemptions, it looks like they’re coming. Market was eager to take a sigh of relief. I’m not so sure where we are with them, but the major indices jumped higher on President Trump’s announcement of temporary exemption on tariffs for phones computers and semiconductors, and really, I guess the subtext is for Apple. But in a tape this volatile we have headlines dropping left and right, I’ve got to tell you, I spend so much time trying to figure out what’s going on, but I think that periodically I nail it. So tonight what I want to do is open up our phone lines to hear directly from you, from the people of America.”

Our Methodology

For this article, we compiled a list of 11 stocks that were discussed by Jim Cramer during the episode of Mad Money aired on April 14. We listed the stocks in the order that Cramer mentioned them. We also provided hedge fund sentiment for each stock as of the fourth quarter of 2024, which was taken from Insider Monkey’s database of over 1,000 hedge funds.

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American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ:AAL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 59

A viewer asked whether American Airlines stock could ever “take off again.” Cramer was pessimistic, citing its weak share performance and noting it’s back at pandemic-era levels.

Here’s his reply:

“You know what I am I’m bummed about American Air. Do you know that it’s back to where it was during COVID times? And it- it’s really a shame because they’re a better company than that.”

Last month, Cramer expressed his opinion on travel and leisure stocks. Here’s what he said about American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ:AAL)’s earnings outlook then:

“And several other airlines mainly followed suit. American slashed revenue outlook for the first quarter and guided for much larger than expected loss… But honestly, these names have already come down dramatically over the past few weeks. This makes them very interesting to me. After this week’s blood bath, you got a lot of them are down 35 to 40%.

So given all the newfound negativity, why on earth would I stick my neck out and recommend some cheap travel plays? Look, as tough as these airlines, the updates were, the collective news, frankly, it wasn’t that horrible, at least not if you listen closely.”

Overall, AAL ranks 6th on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer discusses. While we acknowledge the potential of AAL as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than AAL but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.