Portfolio Manager, AdvisorShares (CWS ETF)
4 dated public stances tracked since 2025-01-09, most recently 2025-01-09. 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 Eddy Elfenbein'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. Eddy Elfenbein 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 |
|---|
| 2025-01-09 | MGRC | bullish | -3.4% | +7.2% | -1.1% |
| 2025-01-09 | HEI | bullish | +12.4% | +41.1% | +56.9% |
| 2025-01-09 | ALSN | bullish | -15.2% | -12.5% | -3.2% |
| 2025-01-09 | ADBE | bullish | -10.2% | -5.8% | -17.7% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| ADBE | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-01-09 |
| ALSN | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-01-09 |
| HEI | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-01-09 |
| MGRC | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-01-09 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-01-09
ADBE
bullish
We Study Billionaires · video
Adobe's market position would be nearly impossible to recreate from scratch and its strong recurring revenue business keeps growing double digits even as the stock has pulled back ~25% from its highs, making valuation compelling
“if Adobe didn't exist and I wrote you a check for several billion dollars could you recreate it”
90d -10.2% · 180d -5.8% · 1y -17.7%
Top Stocks for 2025 & The "Buy" List w/ Eddy Elfenbein (TIP690)
2025-01-09
ALSN
bullish
We Study Billionaires · video
Allison Transmission dominates the fully automatic heavy-truck transmission market with 60-80% share across sub-segments, is under-followed by only a handful of analysts creating persistent mispricing, and still trades at a reasonable low-teens multiple…
“if you got to go through them if you want to build transmissions for the really big trucks”
90d -15.2% · 180d -12.5% · 1y -3.2%
Top Stocks for 2025 & The "Buy" List w/ Eddy Elfenbein (TIP690)
2025-01-09
MGRC
bullish
We Study Billionaires · video
McGrath RentCorp's failed merger may ironically prove beneficial for shareholders since the underlying business is strong and consistent, and the stock was punished on the deal collapse rather than on any fundamental deterioration
“not having the deal could be quite beneficial for shareholders — it's a strong business”
90d -3.4% · 180d +7.2% · 1y -1.1%
Top Stocks for 2025 & The "Buy" List w/ Eddy Elfenbein (TIP690)
2025-01-09
HEI
bullish
We Study Billionaires · video
Heico's exceptional management quality and dominant market position justify an elevated PE that traditional metrics understate, as validated by Berkshire Hathaway and other quality investors accumulating shares
“I've been able to fight those and to do well in that”
90d +12.4% · 180d +41.1% · 1y +56.9%
Top Stocks for 2025 & The "Buy" List w/ Eddy Elfenbein (TIP690)
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