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What Dan Ives is saying
Tech analyst, Wedbush Securities
14 dated public stances tracked since 2024-09-02, most recently 2025-12-16. 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 Dan Ives'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. Dan Ives is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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14
tracked stances
9
themes
0
side flips
2025-12-16
last heard
Returns 90d -1.6% (n=21) · 180d +21.5% (n=21) · 1y +26.7% (n=16)
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.
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | 3 | 3 bullish | 2025-12-16 | |
| AAPL | 2 | 2 bullish | 2025-01-31 | |
| Big Tech | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-01-31 | |
| CRWV | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-12-16 | |
| MSFT | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-01-31 | |
| OKLO | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-01-31 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-12-16
TSLA
bullish
Mohamed El-Erian · video
Tesla's autonomous robo-taxi rollout across 30 cities and volume production of Cybercabs from Gigafactory Austin will validate its AI/physical AI platform, driving a path to $3 trillion valuation by end of 2026
“I think autonomous alone is worth a trillion. And I think when you look at robotic...that's how I get to a $3 trillion valuation”
90d -19.3% · 180d -16.1%
Mohamed El-Erian talks November jobs report & economic concerns, Dan Ives on 3 things Tesla needs
2025-12-16
NVDA
bullish
Mohamed El-Erian · video
Nvidia is one of the two best physical AI plays in the market, serving as the foundational chip layer of the AI arms race across hyperscalers and sovereign AI programs, making it a must-own name in any AI-era portfolio
“when you look at physical AI, there's Nvidia and Tesla is I think the two best out there”
90d +3.1% · 180d +19.7%
Mohamed El-Erian talks November jobs report & economic concerns, Dan Ives on 3 things Tesla needs
2025-12-16
CRWV
bullish
Mohamed El-Erian · video
Despite near-term messaging and execution stumbles, Coreweave's business model and role in AI infrastructure remain intact, making sell-offs overreactions rather than structural breaks
“if there was structural issues, if I didn't believe in the thesis...then you avoid them. But I don't believe that is”
90d +23.5% · 180d +53.5%
Mohamed El-Erian talks November jobs report & economic concerns, Dan Ives on 3 things Tesla needs
2025-12-16
ORCL
bullish
Mohamed El-Erian · video
Oracle's recent sell-off reflects execution and communication missteps, not a structural change in its AI infrastructure thesis, making the current price level a dip-buying opportunity before the stock re-rates higher
“how come I didn't buy Oracle 180 when now it's 240”
90d -17.1% · 180d +2.8%
Mohamed El-Erian talks November jobs report & economic concerns, Dan Ives on 3 things Tesla needs
2025-12-16
long AMD / long AI SOFTWARE/PLATFORMS: PALANTIR, MONGODB / long ENERGY
basket
Mohamed El-Erian · video
Winning the AI revolution requires a diversified barbell across semiconductor suppliers, AI software platforms, and AI-adjacent energy infrastructure rather than concentrating in any single name across the 8-10 year buildout
“you have to think about like a barbell approach”
90d +13.6% · 180d +95.2%
Mohamed El-Erian talks November jobs report & economic concerns, Dan Ives on 3 things Tesla needs
2025-01-31
AAPL
bullish
The Compound · video
Apple is the consumer AI tollbooth — 1.5B iPhones and 2.3B iOS devices mean Apple gets paid regardless of which AI wins; Deep Seek going to #1 in the App Store was actually bullish for Apple services, adding an incremental $10-15B/year
“it doesn't matter if perplexity beats Gemini and deep seek — Apple gets paid”
90d -9.5% · 180d -11.2% · 1y +14.9%
Dan Ives: Still the First Inning for AI | TCAF 176
2025-01-31
OKLO
bullish
The Compound · video
Nuclear power is a required pillar of AI infrastructure buildout; Oklo (the Sam Altman-backed nuclear play) went from $10 to $35 and the lesson is that near-term revenue is the wrong lens — what matters is positioning for the decade-long AI energy demand curve
“if you believe in AI and some of the technology they're building you can't look at revenues next year”
90d -36.8% · 180d +81.8% · 1y +76.9%
Dan Ives: Still the First Inning for AI | TCAF 176
2025-01-31
NVDA
bullish
The Compound · video
Deep Seek does not reduce GPU demand — demand-to-supply for Nvidia chips is 15:1, two trillion in AI capex over three years is effectively locked in, and earnings growth from ~$0.50 to $5 makes the stock cheaper despite being up 2,000%
“demand to supply for NVIDIA chips is 15 to 1”
90d -7.0% · 180d +49.3% · 1y +54.6%
Dan Ives: Still the First Inning for AI | TCAF 176
2025-01-31
Big Tech
bullish
The Compound · video
Street estimates for the Magnificent 7 are being overstated by 15-30% because consensus underestimates the earnings acceleration in H2 2025 into 2026 driven by AI revenue; Dan sees another 25% upside in tech stocks for the year
“tech stocks are going to be up another 25% this year — Mag 7 despite expectations being high are going to continue to massively outperform”
90d -7.6% · 180d +9.0% · 1y +20.5%
Dan Ives: Still the First Inning for AI | TCAF 176
2025-01-31
MSFT
bullish
The Compound · video
Azure AI revenue at $13B is the top of the first inning; as cloud workload migration accelerates from 45% of workloads today, Azure growth should re-accelerate from 31% toward 40-45%, and the stock needs to trade at $600-700 to price in the hyperbolic…
“the only way that you get to a stock that's six 700 bucks you have to go through this period”
90d +2.7% · 180d +24.1% · 1y +2.8%
Dan Ives: Still the First Inning for AI | TCAF 176
2025-01-31
PLTR
bullish
The Compound · video
Palantir is not building LLMs and therefore benefits from cheaper models; it is one of the three software companies already demonstrating real enterprise AI use cases and boots-on-the-ground adoption
“the only one the ones that have seen it early — Palantir because they're really front and center when it comes to use cases”
90d +40.9% · 180d +92.3% · 1y +79.1%
Dan Ives: Still the First Inning for AI | TCAF 176
2024-09-02
NVDA
bullish
The Compound · video
Nvidia's AI chip demand is supply-constrained 10-15x with only 3-5% of global enterprises having begun AI deployments, Blackwell ramp adds a services/ecosystem revenue layer with ~30-35% annual recurring attach rate and prohibitive switching costs, putting…
“I believe we're looking for trillion market cap for NVIDIA next six months”
90d +28.4% · 180d +5.6% · 1y +58.2%
Why Dan Ives Says It’s Still the First Inning for Nvidia
2024-09-02
AAPL
bullish
The Compound · video
iPhone 16 unlocks a consumer AI supercycle with roughly 300 million iPhones unupgraded for four or more years, and the deep OpenAI partnership creates a consumer-facing AI gateway that connects the enterprise AI buildout to the mass market for the first time
“you have 300 million iPhones haven't been up there in four years that all now comes to Apple”
90d +7.7% · 180d +7.1% · 1y +3.6%
Why Dan Ives Says It’s Still the First Inning for Nvidia
2024-09-02
long AMD / long PLTR / long NOW / long ORCL (+1 legs)
basket
The Compound · video
Every $1 of Nvidia GPU spend creates $8-10 of broader tech sector spending across software, infrastructure, and adjacent semis, making second-and-third derivative AI plays the next leg of the bull market as enterprise use cases proliferate
“for every dollar spent on an Nvidia GPU chip there is an 8 to 10 dollar multiplier across the tech sector”
90d +44.3% · 180d +42.7% · 1y +126.4%
Why Dan Ives Says It’s Still the First Inning for Nvidia
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