Founder & Portfolio Manager, ACM Capital Management
4 dated public stances tracked since 2021-10-06, most recently 2021-10-06. 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 Rom Wilson'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. Rom Wilson 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 |
|---|
| 2021-10-06 | SNAP | owns | -39.8% | -46.2% | -84.5% |
| 2021-10-06 | CVS | bullish | +26.2% | +21.6% | +21.2% |
| 2021-10-06 | AMZN | bullish | +2.7% | +3.2% | -26.2% |
| 2021-10-06 | ADP | bullish | +20.1% | +15.8% | +16.7% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| ADP | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2021-10-06 |
| AMZN | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2021-10-06 |
| CVS | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2021-10-06 |
| SNAP | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2021-10-06 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2021-10-06
AMZN
bullish
Dennis Hong · video
AWS's dominance in cloud infrastructure created a sum-of-parts undervaluation versus retail, and with or without a regulatory breakup the company compounds durable competitive advantages
“if these companies broke up they would be worth more and if they didn't break up...they would also be worth more”
90d +2.7% · 180d +3.2% · 1y -26.2%
From China to Elephants & Snapchat: Rom Wilson on building a successful investment firm and process
2021-10-06
ADP
bullish
Dennis Hong · video
Blend of stable Parisian hub airports and higher-growth emerging-market airports (India, Kazakhstan, Chile) supports a favorable return profile across a range of post-pandemic traffic recovery timelines
“if it's three years it'll be a great out performer for us...if it's seven years it'll probably be sort of a steady middling compounder”
90d +20.1% · 180d +15.8% · 1y +16.7%
From China to Elephants & Snapchat: Rom Wilson on building a successful investment firm and process
2021-10-06
SNAP
owns
Dennis Hong · video
Snap's distinct close-friend communication use case anchors durable user retention, Android app improvement opens emerging-market growth, and expanding advertiser tools drive monetization leverage on a two-sided marketplace
“we established our position you know between five and ten”
90d -39.8% · 180d -46.2% · 1y -84.5%
From China to Elephants & Snapchat: Rom Wilson on building a successful investment firm and process
2021-10-06
CVS
bullish
Dennis Hong · video
The Caremark acquisition made CVS agnostic between declining in-store pharmacy traffic and rapidly growing mail-order prescription delivery, creating a durable competitive position the market wrongly judged as a bad deal
“by making the acquisition they'd made themselves agnostic”
90d +26.2% · 180d +21.6% · 1y +21.2%
From China to Elephants & Snapchat: Rom Wilson on building a successful investment firm and process
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