Cramer’s Risky Water Stock

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Cramer on tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC said he got stumped on a question about water holdings when he was at UT in Texas.  He has a stock now called Pico Holdings (PICO-NASDAQ) that could be a winner.  He said he will not endorse it though because it is very small and very thin.  They hold water rights in Arizona.

This one actually holds other investments as well that has rallied 300% in the last few years.  Its water resource and storage unit is the main one that resells water and they are not a regulated water utility; it finished a 35-mile water pipeline last year; it holds real estate and insurance as well.  It priced a secondary at $37.50 earlier in the month and he thinks it can go higher, but because it is so small Cramer says it is very risky and it is only followed by 1 analyst.  Cramer thinks it could be a sleeping giant or it could stay dormant for years and years, so he reminds about the risk.

PICO traded up 3% to almost $45.00 after closing up 2% at $43.61.

Jon C. Ogg
March 22, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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