Jim Cramer Says "The Trade Desk Still Needs to Figure Out Where It Fits in the World"

The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) is one of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks Jim Cramer commented on. Cramer highlighted that the stock had a “brutal year,” as he stated:

“Now, who’s on the losing side of the ledger? Actually, some very famous companies that we used to talk about all the time. The worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 last year was The Trade Desk, jeez, that was the formerly beloved digital advertising play struggling to adapt to the AI era, with its stock down almost 68% in 2025. The Trade Desk had a brutal year. This was a tough period for what’s known as programmatic advertising generally, and it’s where they… there’s a lot of buying and selling by machines, frankly. They’re seeing more competition from players with deep pockets like Amazon, and the company dropped the ball more than once. They had a pretty bad rollout for their own AI offering. At the end of the day, advertising is one industry that has genuinely been turned upside down by AI, and The Trade Desk still needs to figure out where it fits in the world. Look, when they do that, it could make a difference, but right now, they haven’t.”

The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) provides a cloud-based platform that helps advertisers plan, manage, and measure digital ad campaigns across different formats and devices.

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