Strong Growth and Expense Discipline Continue at Facebook

Facebook (FB) reported better than expected sales with profits significantly ahead of expectations. The strong results reflect expense discipline even as FB continues to invest for future growth. Looking ahead to the rest of this year, FB narrowed full year expense growth guidance from 40-50% to 40-45%. EPS easily beat Wall Street estimates even after […]

Comcast Continues to Overcome Cord Cutting Fears

Despite lots of discussion of cord cutting and cord shaving and merger rumors, Comcast continues to produce good financial and operating results.  Furthermore, management is careful with the balance sheet by keeping debt levels low and appears to be cautious about the need for a big acquisition.  We like the steady growth and low risk […]

Investing for Long Term Growth at Alphabet

Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL) shares seem likely to take a breather following the company’s 2Q17 earnings report.  Overall, we would give the report a solid “B” but with the shares having soared 26% this year before the report an “A” was probably required to sustain the momentum.  The report showed remarkable growth in Google’s mobile search, YouTube, […]

Large Cap and Growth Favored Again for July

There are no changes to the signals from Northlake’s Market Cap and Style models for June.  The Market Cap model is recommending large cap for the second consecutive month and the Style model is again recommending growth.  With no changes, client positions following the models will continue to be invested in the S&P 500 (SPY) […]