Tech analyst, Melius Research
6 dated public stances tracked since 2026-07-10, most recently 2026-10-27. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Ben Reitzes's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Ben Reitzes is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns
line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|
| 2026-07-10 | SNDK | bullish | -16.0% | — | — |
| 2026-07-10 | MU | bullish | +5.8% | — | — |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE | 1 | | 1 bearish | 2026-07-10 |
| MU | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-07-10 |
| OPEN-SOURCE AI MODELS | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-10-27 |
| SEMICONDUCTORS / AI INFRASTRUCTURE | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-07-10 |
| SK | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-07-10 |
| SNDK | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-07-10 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-10-27
OPEN-SOURCE AI MODELS
bullish
CNBC (uncut) · uncut_tv
Enterprises are increasingly training proprietary data on open models, which he expects to produce a substantial productivity boom over the next two years.
“There's a massive surge in tokens towards open models.”
CNBC uncut 2026-10-27 10:09 ET (5 min)
2026-07-10
MU
bullish
CNBC Television · video
Micron is a leader in HBM stacked DRAM for AI workloads and benefits directly from insatiable demand from hyperscalers and Nvidia, making it a core way to play the memory upcycle
“we're recommending Micron and we're very bullish on memory”
90d +5.8%
Melius’ Ben Reitzes on SK Hynix's market debut: 'We're very bullish on memory'
2026-07-10
SEMICONDUCTORS / AI INFRASTRUCTURE
bullish
CNBC Television · video
The AI compute buildout is secular and unprecedented — robotics, physical AI, and the path toward AGI will drive compounding demand for chips far beyond current consensus, with Jevons paradox ensuring lower token costs increase rather than reduce total…
“we haven't even gotten into robotics yet... this is going to keep going for a very long time”
Melius’ Ben Reitzes on SK Hynix's market debut: 'We're very bullish on memory'
2026-07-10
SK
bullish
CNBC Television · video
SK Hynix is the market leader in HBM and the purest way to play high-bandwidth stacked DRAM demand from AI workloads, likely deserving a better multiple than on its home exchange
“this is the purest way to play HBM, the super fast stacked memory that is in such high demand”
Melius’ Ben Reitzes on SK Hynix's market debut: 'We're very bullish on memory'
2026-07-10
SNDK
bullish
CNBC Television · video
Sandisk is a recommended memory play that participates in the same HBM/AI-driven memory demand cycle as peers Micron and SK Hynix
“we're recommending Micron and we're recommending Sandisk”
90d -16.0%
Melius’ Ben Reitzes on SK Hynix's market debut: 'We're very bullish on memory'
2026-07-10
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
bearish
CNBC Television · video
Traditional software names face multi-year headwinds as AI factories generate autonomous software agents that displace legacy vendors, and Melius has been negative on the sector for roughly two years
“we've obviously been negative on software... for a couple years now”
Melius’ Ben Reitzes on SK Hynix's market debut: 'We're very bullish on memory'
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