c8alpha
Idea Scout · archive · 2026-W23

c8alpha Idea Scout — Week of 2026-06-07

2026-W23 · window: last 14 days · 0 consensus · 0 divergences · 15 outside picks

Research only. Aggregates public statements from canonical investors (podcasts, interviews, 13F filings). Not a trading signal, not a recommendation.

Mohnish Pabrai dominated the signal landscape this week, surfacing a concentrated cluster of high-conviction longs — RESA, AMZN, COST, BRK, AMR, and CSU — that reads less like a diversified portfolio and more like a Munger-style checklist of compounders, carried by a 90-day track record of +6.0% across 26 prior calls. Bill Ackman added his own name to the MSFT thesis, a quieter endorsement but one that lands with weight given his 44-call sample behind it. The macro shorts that anchored recent memos are gone: the long-duration Treasury short and the private credit short both broke this week, removing what had been a notable consensus anchor from the rate and credit complex. With no fresh consensus forming and no genuine three-on-three split to arbitrate, the tape this week belongs almost entirely to Pabrai — a single voice swinging hard at a specific basket of names in a week when everyone else went quiet.

Consensus

No consensus themes this week.

Divergence

No themes are genuinely split this week.

Outside Ideas

Specific-ticker calls from canonical speakers with positive 90d prior track record (mean signed return > 0 across n≥3). Not part of any consensus or divergence theme above.

TickerDirSpeakerPrior 90dThesis
RESALONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Purchased in 2019 at less than 3% of liquidation value, representing extreme undervaluation in the Turkish market [video]
AMZNLONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Amazon is a quality compounder and spawner of new businesses that should be held forever rather than sold, as demonstrated by Nick Sleep's portfolio construction [video]
COSTLONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Costco exemplifies highest-quality business attributes — management, moat, and operations — warranting permanent holding as one of three core positions [video]
BRKLONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Berkshire Hathaway represents a quality forever-hold that compounds capital efficiently with no fee drag, recommended even to fund investors upon capital return [video]
BRKLONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Berkshire offers diversified exposure at reasonable valuation with improving operational discipline under Greg Abel, making it a superior alternative to pure S&P 500 indexing over long horizons [video]
AMRLONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Met coal is a hated sector causing undervaluation, but Alpha offers strong forward cash flow visibility similar to the IPSCO framework where asset value far exceeds stock price [video]
CSULONGMohnish Pabrai+6.0% (n=26)Constellation is an exceptionally resilient compounder of 1,000 businesses with ethics-driven management that should never be trimmed, as selling at 10% portfolio weight destroys long-term compounding [video]
MSFTLONGBill Ackman+1.1% (n=44)Microsoft is being left behind by short-term capital chasing AI infrastructure plays, creating a cheap valuation in a high-quality, durable business that is itself deeply embedded in AI [video]
METALONGBill Ackman+1.1% (n=44)Meta is being treated as an 'old-fashioned' company by markets rotating into pure-play AI names, depressing its valuation despite being a high-quality, durable business with massive AI integration [video]
AMZNLONGBill Ackman+1.1% (n=44)Amazon is being mispriced as legacy by markets chasing AI chip and energy plays, similar to how Berkshire was mispriced during the dot-com bubble, creating an attractive entry point [video]
HHCLONGBill Ackman+1.1% (n=44)Howard Hughes trades at a discount to liquidation value (~60 cents on the dollar) and Ackman is repositioning it from a real estate developer into a Berkshire-style compounding machine by reinvesting [video]
CRMSHORTBill Ackman+1.1% (n=44)Salesforce is at risk from AI disruption because it charges high monopolistic software pricing to customers who could increasingly find AI-native alternatives, making its moat less durable than lower- [video]
NVDALONGDan Loeb+0.6% (n=9)Nvidia trades at ~15x 2027 and ~12x 2028 earnings as the dominant player in AI infrastructure with very fast growth, making it among the most attractive stocks even after significant appreciation [video]
XLONGDan Loeb+0.6% (n=9)Morgan Stanley offloaded Twitter LBO debt near par at ~12% yield; most credit investors were scared despite the yield and Third Point was comfortable enough with underlying business value to make it t [video]
RRLONGDan Loeb+0.6% (n=9)Rolls-Royce is cited as one of Third Point's European holdings that works because it is a global business not dependent on the weak local European economy [video]

What Changed

Track Record Scoreboard

Top speakers by 90d mean signed return (n≥3). Long/short-aware. Refreshed each memo run — corpus expands, numbers move.

Speakern₉₀HitMean 90d
Greenlight / Einhorn (13F)3100%+26.8%
Grant Williams944%+16.5%
Stanley Druckenmiller1867%+11.1%
Patrick Boyle1567%+10.2%
David Einhorn11100%+10.0%
Cathie Wood3754%+8.1%
Bill Nygren4871%+7.9%
Barry Sternlicht1080%+7.5%
Paul Tudor Jones3376%+7.1%
Terry Smith367%+6.6%
David Rubenstein580%+6.5%
Mohnish Pabrai2669%+6.0%
Seth Klarman1471%+5.8%
Tim Urbanowicz450%+5.4%
Bill Miller4745%+5.2%
← the week beforeall issuesthe week after →

Get next Sunday's issue

One free email a week: who's recommending what, where they agree, and who just changed their mind.

Double opt-in · unsubscribe in one click · we never share your address.