Chief US equity strategist, Goldman Sachs
3 dated public stances tracked since 2025-12-29, most recently 2026-10-22. 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 Snider'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 Snider 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 |
|---|
| 2026-05-28 | SPX | bullish | +1.8% | — | — |
| 2025-12-29 | SPX | bullish | -7.9% | +8.3% | — |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| SPX | 2 | | 2 bullish | 2026-05-28 |
| CONSUMER STAPLES | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-10-22 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-10-22
CONSUMER STAPLES
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Classic defensive sector with light positioning offers protection as macro pressures build and investors de-risk out of heavily concentrated Mag-7 hyperscaler positions
“classic defensive sectors. Consumer staples performing well”
Open Interest 10/22/2026
2026-05-28
SPX
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
24% S&P 500 earnings growth in 2026 driven by AI infrastructure — with roughly half coming from AI stocks and a third from the two largest semiconductor companies — will power the index to 8,000 via earnings, not multiple expansion
“if the underlying earnings trend remains intact, the underlying market trend should too”
90d +1.8%
US, Iran Truce Hopes Lift Stocks | Open Interest 5/28/2026
2025-12-29
SPX
bullish
video
Broad earnings growth remains strong (S&P 500 +12% EPS in Q3, S&P 493 consistent ~15%/yr for three consecutive years) and a healthy macro backdrop supports a 2026 index target of 7600, with a small but growing AI productivity contribution to earnings…
“We've published 7600”
90d -7.9% · 180d +8.3%
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