Cramer on Citi. Click to view.
FORTUNE — I’d been wondering what to say about Citigroup’s (C) coverage of Apple (AAPL), which took a sharp turn for the worse with the departure of its 16-year veteran analyst Richard Gardner last spring.
Not only did Citi miss Apple’s run from $560 to $705 — a six-month stretch when the bank provided no coverage at all — but then the new team gave clients a 20-day one-two punch: Issuing a Buy at $571 just before the stock fell to $509.79, then downgrading Apple to Neutral just before shares bounced back to $533.90.
As I say, I was wondering whether to comment on this string of spectacularly bad advice when “kylobbyist,” a long-time member of Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board (and no fan of CNBC’s Jim Cramer) pointed out that the king of hot-and-cold Apple TV commentators tore into Citi’s back-to-back reports Tuesday night. “I just spit out a nice glass of cabernet,” she posted. “I’m about to gag.”
I found the No Huddle Offense clip, and embedded it below. Despite a few slips of the tongue, Cramer did a good job. I have nothing to add, except that Citi may regret the day it let Richard Gardner go.