$WMB Williams Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $WMB Williams Tape Reports — 3 podcast mentions across 3 podcasts (30 days), latest 2026-08-24 23:15 UTC.
Companies that work for the moment. PepsiCo is one. That's kind of what I'm thinking. It's real down. It's got 4% yield. Unexciting. I don't care. Stay tuned to see what we do with it for that trust. Mad Money tonight, Salesforce is on the move after earnings. I'm going one-on-one with the CEO to find out the latest on the quarter. Then, as I mentioned, the most important company in the market just reported earnings. I've got an exclusive with CEO Jensen Huang. I don't think you want to miss that, do you? And Williams-Sonoma has been one of the best-performing retailers this year. How's that happening? I'm going to find out when we talk to the company's top brass. So stick with Kramer.
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26The Lightning Round is sponsored by Charles Schwab. Coming up, was William Sonoma able to design a beautiful quarter? Kramer's asking the CEO, next.
Speaker A — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26At this point, we got results from one of the best performing retailers of the year. It's Williams-Sonoma, which is also the parent company of Pottery Barn and West Elm, among others. They posted a healthy top and bottom line beat, raised full year forecast across the board. But initially the stock sold off hard. That was wrong. It opened down 5%. That was stupid because the stock was already up 31%. Maybe that's what's going on. Or maybe somebody didn't understand the noise from tariffs. Eventually, though, buyers came around. Stock finished up 1 1% for the day. So let's take a closer look with Laura Albrecht, the president and CEO of Williams-Sonoma, to learn more. Ms. Albrecht, welcome back to Mad Money.
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26All right. So, Laura, I was going to ask you, like, what— how's Williams-Sonoma doing during these headwinds and broad-based strength? Now I'm going to cut to it. I think I need you to speak to something I've never point-blank asked about. Isn't it because— doesn't everything start because the quality is the best?
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26I think for everybody in business. Now, we know Pottery Barn, we know Williams-Sonoma, we know West Elm. Maybe it's a parlor game, but non-GAAP, my wife, Rejuvenation, could that be the next brand that we think of as a major flagship brand?
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26Okay. Well, look, I do hope you see— we see it in stores, maybe Simon Property Group. There's a lot of those great ones around and they do have places to put you. I want to congratulate you again on a great quarter and so far a fantastic year. That's Laura Albrecht, the president of Williams-Sonoma. Laura, I love it when you come on. Thank you so much.
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26It is still earnings season and the retail companies are busy reporting their results. And we've got a read on two different parts of the consumer retail economy. Bath Body Works sales sliding, and that is taking— that is having an effect on the share price certainly this morning. And then you have Williams-Sonoma, whose sales momentum has extended. Bath Body Works for the moment up 3.5%. Williams-Sonoma down 2.5%. Lindsay Dutch is with us right now. She is our consumer hardline senior analyst. And Lindsay, if we just take a step back, first of all, and look at the headlines, look at the numbers out of Williams-Sonoma and Bath Body Works. What kind of story does it tell about consumer spending and the willingness of consumers to spend on little treats and bigger, more expensive investments like cookware?
Scarlett — Bloomberg Intelligence · Meta Says It Will Pay Up to $18 Billion Over Social Media Claims · 2026-08-26Thanks, Scarlet, for having me. Yes, I think that there's two different stories happening here. You know, I think the Bath Body Works, the stock is up, sort of results better than feared. But as you mentioned, they're seeing sales decline. And sort of pressure on profit. If you take out any tariff refunds from the result, that company is going through a little bit of a transformation. They're kind of cutting their SKUs. So some of that decline is sort of a contraction in the assortment that they have going on with this strategy to revive growth. But the other piece is, you know, they generally cater towards, you know, like a broader— like the average US consumer. And you can see, you know, there is some pressure there. Those consumers need big discounts to come and spend even on a lower price item that you'd find at a Bath Body. And by contrast, if we jump to Williams-Sonoma, you know, they had very strong results, sales growth of almost 7% in the quarter, super strong across all of their brands. And I think the bar, you know, for investors for this company is just very, very high. And their guidance raise just didn't meet that high bar.
Lindsay Dutch — Bloomberg Intelligence · Meta Says It Will Pay Up to $18 Billion Over Social Media Claims · 2026-08-26