Co-President & Portfolio Manager, Baron Capital
4 dated public stances tracked since 2026-04-20, most recently 2026-10-05. 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 Michael Baron'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. Michael Baron 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 |
|---|
| 2026-07-24 | TSLA | bullish | +19.7% | — | — |
| 2026-07-24 | MSCI | bullish | +13.0% | — | — |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| MSCI | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-07-24 |
| SPACEX | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-04-20 |
| TSLA | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-07-24 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-10-05
long SHOP / long GWRE / long UNKNOWN / long FDS (+1 legs)
basket
Excess Returns · video
Proprietary-data software companies (Shopify, Guidewire, Gartner, FactSet, MSCI) have been indiscriminately sold as AI losers, but their deep, multi-year customer datasets cannot be replaced by generic AI tools, making them mispriced given still-strong 10–20%…
“they're on sale... their PEs have been cut in half, yet their growth is substantial”
Diesel is Spiking. The Market Has the AI Losers Wrong | Are You Betting Too Big?
2026-07-24
TSLA
bullish
The Compound · video
Tesla's competitive advantage is shifting from EVs (now contested by China) to humanoid robots where Optimus at 10-100M+ units/year is a capability no competitor can approach, and robot-taxi Cybercab will arrive even if timing slips a quarter or two
“No one's going to have any — No one's going to ever do anything like his robots”
90d +19.7%
Secrets From the Greatest Fund Manager of All Time | TCAF 252
2026-07-24
MSCI
bullish
The Compound · video
AI fears are 'way overblown' for software companies with proprietary datasets — these firms will be paid by LLMs for their data and become AI enablers, yet their stocks trade at 50% off highs, offering a fundamental inflection point at cheap valuations
“Way overblown. If you have something that is proprietary, AI should be an enabler to these businesses”
90d +13.0%
Secrets From the Greatest Fund Manager of All Time | TCAF 252
2026-04-20
SPACEX
bullish
Bloomberg ETF IQ · video
SpaceX's launch business, Starlink satellite communications, and XAI AI training-in-space potential make current private-market valuations a stepping stone, not a ceiling, for long-term value creation
“we'd actually be buyers at this kind of price, you know, considering what they can become over time”
Inside the $21T ETF Industry, Apollo's Role in 'PRIV | ETF IQ 4/20/2026
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