Airbnb, Inc. (ABNB) - "Brian Chesky Keeps Selling His Own Stock… Just Stop!" Pleads Cramer

We recently published a list of Jim Cramer Reveals The ‘North Star’ Of Investing & Discusses These 10 Stocks. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer recently discussed.

In a recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer discussed recent employment data which covered nonfarm payrolls,  the unemployment rate, and other details. The figures revealed that nonfarm payrolls grew by 177,000 in April which handily beat economists’ forecast of 133,000. Additionally, despite worries about a growth slowdown, recessionary fears, and high interest rates, April’s unemployment rate sat unchanged at 4.2%.

Cramer gushed about the data and shared that it was the only data that mattered when it came to considering whether there would be a recession. He commented:

“Really strong numbers and it’s one of those this right now the President has that, uh, Truth Social squib, about the Fed should cut. I think the difficulty is a positive difficulty. These are really good numbers and it’s not like they’re red hot in terms of inflation. I like the fact that a lot of them we haven’t seen layoffs yet, from severance, remember from government, that was minus 9,000. The healthcare’s up, it’s just a good number! I mean, it’s a number you expect and like to see when we’re, you know kind of worried about a recession! It’s a take the recession off the table number!”

While the CNBC host admitted that some regions of the economy were weak, he nevertheless remained optimistic:

“We’re supposed to have a pullback. We’re just not getting it. Look there are spots that are weak but they tend to be aligned with outfits that aren’t doing that well. . . I like these numbers, they make me feel like that the President should have said, uh, it’s going to make it so that we might not have to cut rates but hang in there. Maybe things will not be so good so. I mean what does he, don’t box yourself Mr. President. . .”

Another theme that Cramer has discussed quite a lot in his morning show this year is the rally in the European stock market. In an April appearance, he remarked “I think a lot of people say you know what, I keep sending money over there, and I win. So I’m gonna keep sending money over there. Those economies are being juiced by a wartime. . you know they’re spending a lot.” This time around, he pointed out that the US was back. “You know everyone’s still talking about the big European rally, said Cramer. He added: “Hello? It’s been a US rally! Let’s stop it already. That European rally it occurred, dynamite, I’m going over to Europe, I’ll check it out myself.”

Cramer then continued to gush about the jobs report. In fact, he called the reports the North Star of investing:

“I hate to be so simpleminded, but I’ve done, for one of my books I did this thing about what is the one statistic that you need to know. Over the past forty years. And the statistic is, this Friday. Once a month, you need to know this number. And if this number is true, and you have good employment growth, then you can just take it to the next three weeks. . . .take anything negative off the table because this is the number that is the North Star.”

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Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 54

Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB) is a travel accommodation provider that is one of the biggest firms in the business. With the travel market depending on economic activity, the firm’s shares have fluctuated in accordance with these trends in 2025 and are down by 5% year-to-date. Cramer discussed Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB)’s latest earnings call and financial results:

“One of the things that came up on the AirBnb call last night, we’ll see that stock down, is that travel bull market over. I mean we know Booking’s didn’t have a perfect number.

“Okay so Brian Chesky has this annoying habit, I happen to like Brian from 2008, he has this annoying habit of finding something that’s wrong. Let the analysts do it Brian! You don’t have to do it. I liked the quarter. He did have this, you know there’s this, not a lot of bookings done, in this one window, and that indicated to him that something’s wrong. This guy goes out of his way to keep a Sell on his own stock. Brian take your, take your view of AirBnb, take it to a Hold. . . I want to like wring his neck, I like him so much.

“I just think that the issue with AirBnb is just that as long as hotels are very expensive, then you go AirBnb. Brian’s gotta stick to that script. And I like him so much I’m joking about obviously, but he does have this kind of bent about him to find the negatives. I would have come up with the other, which is that boy I’ll tell you, if we do have a slowdown, remember how well we do. And remember even in COVID people used to go from one place to another. My daughter she was teaching English in Spain. On the weekends, she would go from one part of Spain to another cause that’s what you did! That’s gonna come back. Brian’s gotta get a little more positive.”

Overall, ABNB ranks 3rd on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer recently discussed. While we acknowledge the potential of ABNB 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 ABNB but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

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