Founder & CIO, Parsifal Capital Management
4 dated public stances tracked since 2025-03-03, most recently 2025-03-03. 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 David Zorub'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. David Zorub 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 |
|---|
| 2025-03-03 | SN | bullish | -7.1% | +17.5% | +16.5% |
| 2025-03-03 | International Dev | owns | +8.9% | +15.0% | +32.1% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| International Dev | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-03-03 |
| M | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-03-03 |
| SMALL AND MID-CAP EQUITIES | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-03-03 |
| SN | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-03-03 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-03-03
SN
bullish
Capital Allocators · video
Shark Ninja spun out of a Chinese parent with zero institutional coverage, no 10-K filings, and classic spinoff selling pressure, yet traded at ~8x EBITDA despite 45-50% gross margins, high-teens EBITDA margins, and a proven track record of capturing 30-40%…
“it was clear to see why it was inefficient and it came out at something like eight times current year EBITDA”
90d -7.1% · 180d +17.5% · 1y +16.5%
David Zorub - Navigating Hedge Fund Headwinds at Parsifal (EP.434)
2025-03-03
International Dev
owns
Capital Allocators · video
The large-cap AI trade has sucked capital out of nearly every asset class and country globally, creating mispriced opportunities outside the US — Parsifal currently has ~25% of risk in international names and three of their last four new concentrated longs…
“three of the last four long ideas that we put into this concentrated portfolio are international opportunities”
90d +8.9% · 180d +15.0% · 1y +32.1%
David Zorub - Navigating Hedge Fund Headwinds at Parsifal (EP.434)
2025-03-03
SMALL AND MID-CAP EQUITIES
bullish
Capital Allocators · video
Mag 7 concentration has created a real bifurcation leaving compelling small/mid-cap situations 'lying in the middle of the street,' while a broadening of earnings growth from large-cap to mid-cap is underway and largely ignored by both passive and active flows
“they've literally left very compelling situations lying in the middle of the street”
David Zorub - Navigating Hedge Fund Headwinds at Parsifal (EP.434)
2025-03-03
M
bullish
Capital Allocators · video
Republican deregulatory sweep is reducing regulatory burden that fell disproportionately on small and mid-sized businesses, unlocking pent-up corporate action demand and animal spirits that Parsifal expects to generate event-driven special situations alpha in…
“there's a lot of pent up corporate action demand um that will you know come out here in the coming months and year”
David Zorub - Navigating Hedge Fund Headwinds at Parsifal (EP.434)
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