Mixed Strategic Drivers Led Upslope Capital Management to Pick Henry Schein (HSIC)

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Soumya Eswaran

Mon, January 19, 2026 astatine 7:12 AM CST 4 min read

Upslope Capital Management, an concern absorption company, released its fourth-quarter 2025 capitalist letter. A transcript of the missive tin beryllium downloaded here. Upslope aims to supply attractive, equity-like returns portion reducing marketplace hazard and keeping debased correlation with accepted equity strategies. The 4th fourth marked a beardown extremity to an exceptional twelvemonth for the firm. The Fund delivered beardown results with reduced downside risk. The Fund returned +2.0% (net) successful Q4 compared to +1.6% for some the S&P Midcap 400 ETF (MDY) and HFRX Equity Hedge Index. For the twelvemonth 2025, the Fund returned +14.8% compared to +7.2% and +10.1% returns for the indexes, respectively. The steadfast observed that markets are progressively dynamic, and astir concern decisions are driven by aggressive, thematic, and precise short-term-focused strategies. As a closing note, the missive states that identifying concern opportunities is straightforward, but returns stay uncertain fixed the existent economical landscape. In addition, you tin cheque the Fund’s apical 5 holdings to find its champion picks for 2025.

In its fourth-quarter 2025 capitalist letter, Upslope Capital Management highlighted stocks specified arsenic Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC). Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC), a distributor of dental products and services, has precocious been added to the portfolio. On January 16, 2026, Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC) banal closed astatine $79.98 per share. One-month instrumentality of Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC) was 3.09%, and its shares gained 9.23% of their worth implicit the past 52 weeks. Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC) has a marketplace capitalization of $9.699 billion.

Upslope Capital Management stated the pursuing regarding Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC) successful its 4th fourth 2025 capitalist letter:

"Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC) is the starring distributor of dental products successful the U.S. and assorted countries astir the world. The institution besides distributes much wide healthcare products. Within its halfway Dental business, the institution holds the starring marketplace stock presumption successful each large countries (52% of Dental income are from the U.S., 28% EMEA, 20% Canada/RoW) successful which it operates – mostly holding ~25-40% share. Historically, the institution has been a slow, dependable and mostly a-cyclical grower.