CANDIES Stocks Earnings Review

Mad Money host Jim Cramer has previously highlighted a list of high-growth stocks that he believes will perform well in any market. These stocks are affectionately known by their acronym CANDIES and include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG: 374.02 0.00%), Apple (AAPL: 476.68 0.00%), Netflix (NFLX: 124.00 0.00%), Deckers (DECK: 87.25 0.00%), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG: 491.915 0.00%), Express Scripts (ESRX: 50.78 0.00%) and Salesforce.com (CRM: 123.80 0.00%).

As investors have flocked to industrials stocks like Caterpillar (CAT: 114.04 0.00%) and United Technologies (UTX: 81.74 0.00%) in recent weeks, Cramer’s CANDIES stocks have underperformed the S&P 500. In fact, Chipotle is the only stock to have outperformed the S&P 500 index since Cramer announced this list of CANDIES stocks on June 3rd.

Cramer is still very committed to these seven stocks and believes they are resilient enough to bounce back from their recent subpar performance. On yesterday’s Mad Money show, Cramer reviewed the earnings performances from the five CANDIES stocks have reported so far.

Chipotle
Cramer called Chipotle’s second quarter results “absurdly unbelievable”. Rising Same-store sales (SSS) and a phenomenal growth rate has this stock primed for further gains.

Apple
Apple reported an “insanely great beat” driven by strong Mac, iPod and iPhone sales. Even in Europe, Apple saw sales jump 66% despite many people writing off Europe as a “challenged area”.

Deckers
Deckers reported earnings that were $.13 above Wall Street’s expectations driven by a 34% growth in revenues. Cramer believes this demonstrates that the bull market is alive and well in the shoe sector.

Intuitive Surgical
ISRG reported similar strong growth with revenues up 34% and earnings $.15 higher than the Street was expecting.

Netflix
The one CANDIES stock that disappointed investors was Netflix. However, Cramer believes that investors over-reacted to NFLX’s earnings. “’m standing by it because of its stable and growing subscription business” said Cramer.

Netflix did beat consensus estimates and raised their guidance, but they also reported a 7% decline in revenue per customer. Cramer believes that Wall Street analysts are too focused on the declining revenue per customer at Netflix and ignoring its fabulous subscription growth. The number of Netflix subscribers reached 15 million this quarter, and increase of 42% from last year.