What Mark Holowesko is saying
Founder & CIO, Holowesko Partners
4 dated public stances tracked since 2025-02-17, most recently 2025-02-17. 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 Mark Holowesko'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. Mark Holowesko is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Most-argued themes
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-02-17
YUMC
owns
Hidden Forces · video
Net cash balance sheet with growing dividend (raised 50%), ongoing store expansion driven by a wealthier Chinese consumer base, and comparatively low geopolitical risk versus other Chinese sectors like real estate or finance
“one of our largest investments here is Yum China... net cash balance sheet... raising their dividend 50%”
90d -9.0% · 180d -8.8% · 1y +13.7%
A Turning Point for Value Investing | Mark Holowesko
2025-02-17
BMW
bullish
Hidden Forces · video
BMW's domestic US production mix is superior to US manufacturers' heavy reliance on Mexican and Canadian factories, making it less exposed to tariff disruption while its US-based competitors absorb the damage
“BMW is in a better situation to not get hurt by these tariffs than the US companies that you're trying to protect”
A Turning Point for Value Investing | Mark Holowesko
2025-02-17
long GLOBAL VALUE STOCKS / short US HIGH-MULTIPLE GROWTH STOCKS
pair
Hidden Forces · video
2022 marked a structural turning point as rate normalization and shrinking liquidity reverse the decade-long tailwind for growth stocks; a higher cost of capital disproportionately punishes the large cohort of unprofitable high-multiple US companies that…
“companies out there that are 250 billion that are generating a billion dollars in cash flow”
A Turning Point for Value Investing | Mark Holowesko
2025-02-17
long UK AND JAPANESE EQUITIES / short SPX
pair
Hidden Forces · video
US equities are priced for perfection after years of excess liquidity and rate suppression while UK and Japanese equities offer far better upside-to-downside ratios; passive index concentration in US amplifies eventual mean reversion when the liquidity cycle…
“the downside in the US is much greater than the downside in a lot of the companies that I'm invested in in Japan and UK”
A Turning Point for Value Investing | Mark Holowesko
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