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Jim Cramer puts Costco in the penalty box and says he will find out why

9/6/2026

Something is wrong, and a prominent stock commentator is stepping back until he knows what.

In investor shorthand, that move is called putting a stock in the penalty box: a temporary hold where an analyst stops recommending shares but stops short of an outright sell.

Jim Cramer applied that label to Costco on Thursday, saying he intends to get to the bottom of whatever is troubling him about the warehouse retailer.

What the penalty box actually means The phrase borrows from ice hockey, where a player must sit off the ice for a set period after committing a foul.