What James Demmert is saying
Founder & CIO, Main Street Research
4 dated public stances tracked since 2023-08-10, most recently 2023-08-10. 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 James Demmert'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. James Demmert is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Returns 90d -0.0% (n=5) · 180d +25.4% (n=5) · 1y +22.3% (n=5)
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
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2023-08-10
AMZN
bullish
Bill Nygren · video
AI theme exposure is essential and Amazon is a favored name with consistent growth, strong balance sheet, and AI exposure
“companies like AMD in the space or Microsoft or the Amazon”
90d +2.5% · 180d +22.1% · 1y +20.5%
Today's CPI report is a reminder inflation is sticky despite Fed's efforts: Main Street's Demmert
2023-08-10
MSFT
bullish
Bill Nygren · video
AI theme exposure is essential and Microsoft is a favored name combining consistent earnings growth with direct AI positioning
“companies like AMD in the space or Microsoft or the Amazon”
90d +12.7% · 180d +26.1% · 1y +26.7%
Today's CPI report is a reminder inflation is sticky despite Fed's efforts: Main Street's Demmert
2023-08-10
CAT
bullish
Bill Nygren · video
Caterpillar is attractively valued at a low P/E and represents the broadening of market participation into Industrials that have not yet moved significantly this year
“Caterpillar tractor act well in the Industrials...very exciting we think that the stock's very low PE”
90d -16.8% · 180d +14.8% · 1y +21.3%
Today's CPI report is a reminder inflation is sticky despite Fed's efforts: Main Street's Demmert
2023-08-10
AMD
bullish
Bill Nygren · video
AI theme exposure is essential for investors and AMD is a favored name with consistent growth and strong balance sheet in the AI semiconductor space
“you really can't be an investor today and not have some AI exposure”
90d +3.0% · 180d +52.3% · 1y +21.8%
Today's CPI report is a reminder inflation is sticky despite Fed's efforts: Main Street's Demmert
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