Journalist — Barron's
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3 dated public stances tracked since 2025-12-29, most recently 2025-12-29. 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 Megan Leonard'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. Megan Leonard 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 |
|---|
| 2025-12-29 | XOP | bullish | +47.3% | +24.0% | — |
| 2025-12-29 | EQT | bullish | +18.5% | -4.1% | — |
| 2025-12-29 | ENERGY | bullish | +39.8% | +21.7% | — |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| ENERGY | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-12-29 |
| EQT | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-12-29 |
| XOP | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2025-12-29 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-12-29
ENERGY
bullish
Barron's Roundtable · video
Oil demand continues to grow roughly 1% annually despite EV adoption and renewable energy growth, supporting the energy sector ETF dominated by Chevron and Exxon over the long term
“demand keeps growing about a 1% clip despite the electric vehicles”
90d +39.8% · 180d +21.7%
AI trade is getting 'more complicated,' says 'Barron's' market editor
2025-12-29
EQT
bullish
Barron's Roundtable · video
Natural gas demand is structurally elevated by AI data center power consumption, and EQT is the direct pure-play vehicle to capture that tailwind
“natural gas market outlook is good probably because of the demand for power from AI and data centers”
90d +18.5% · 180d -4.1%
AI trade is getting 'more complicated,' says 'Barron's' market editor
2025-12-29
XOP
bullish
Barron's Roundtable · video
Broader E&P ETF including Diamondback and ConocoPhillips captures diversified upstream oil exposure benefiting from sustained long-term demand growth
90d +47.3% · 180d +24.0%
AI trade is getting 'more complicated,' says 'Barron's' market editor
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