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What Paul Dietrich is saying

Chief investment strategist, Wedbush Securities

6 dated public stances tracked since 2025-03-13, most recently 2025-03-13. 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 Paul Dietrich'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. Paul Dietrich is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.

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tracked stances

themes

side flips

2025-03-13

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Points Score 1.7 · 2/3 names green at 90 days · how it’s scored

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
2025-03-13	long COST / long WMT / long MCD	basket	+9.3%	+12.8%	+25.8%
2025-03-13	USTS	bullish	+0.4%	+4.2%	+4.7%
2025-03-13	HEALTHCARE	bullish	-5.3%	-2.8%	+6.0%
2025-03-13	GOLD	bullish	+12.1%	+21.4%	+67.5%

Most-argued themes

Theme	Stances	Mix	Last
GOLD	1	1 bullish	2025-03-13
HEALTHCARE	1	1 bullish	2025-03-13
TECHNOLOGY STOCKS	1	1 bearish	2025-03-13
USTS	1	1 bullish	2025-03-13
UTILITIES	1	1 bullish	2025-03-13

Tracked stances

bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.

2025-03-13 long COST / long WMT / long MCD basket Fox Claman Countdown · video

Consumer defensive names like Costco, Walmart, and McDonald's historically outperformed in the last two major recessions and will do so again in the coming slowdown

“these were the ones historically that did the best in the last two major recessions”

90d +9.3% · 180d +12.8% · 1y +25.8%