Unnamed member, CNBC Halftime Report investment committee
Media
3 dated public stances tracked since 2023-03-07, most recently 2026-02-24. 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 Committee Member'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. Committee Member 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 |
|---|
| 2026-02-24 | EXPE | bearish | -12.8% | -71.9% | — |
| 2026-01-05 | long SMH / short IGV | pair | +13.6% | +34.3% | — |
| 2023-03-07 | SCHW | bullish | -27.0% | -19.6% | -7.5% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| EXPE | 1 | | 1 bearish | 2026-02-24 |
| SCHW | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2023-03-07 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-02-24
EXPE
bearish
CNBC Halftime Committee · video
Expedia faces AI-driven disruption to its core travel-search business and is already showing a technical momentum breakdown
“Expedia can easily be disrupted by AI, seeing a breakdown”
90d -12.8% · 180d -71.9%
Here's the Committee's discretionary playbook
2026-01-05
long SMH / short IGV
pair
CNBC Halftime Committee · video
Semis dramatically outperformed software in 2025 (SMH +49% vs IGV +1.5%) and the AI-kills-software narrative shows no sign of finality, so the relative-strength trade favoring semis over software is expected to persist into 2026
“it is a beatdown — IGV up 1.5% for 2025, SMH is up 49%”
90d +13.6% · 180d +34.3%
CNBC's 'Halftime Report' Investment Committee detail their 2026 market outlook
2023-03-07
SCHW
bullish
CNBC Halftime Committee · video
Schwab trades below a market multiple despite organic growth, market share gains from industry consolidation, and structural tailwind from higher rates benefiting its large deposit base
“sells for under a market multiple it's got a lot of organic growth”
90d -27.0% · 180d -19.6% · 1y -7.5%
The CNBC ‘Halftime Report’ investment committee weighs in on recent market calls
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