Posts by: Steve Birenberg
Maybe it is the redundancy of listening to my fourth newspaper conference call this earnings season but I found little of interest in the New York Times (NYT) earnings release…
Knight Ridder (KRI) reported results in line with reduced expectations following management's lower guidance a month ago. Excluding unusual items EPS came in at 67 cents, down 18% from a…
Although I rarely make a trade intra-month in Northlake's model driven ETF investments, last Wednesday morning I moved half of the small cap value exposure to large cap value. This…
In the extended comments section at the bottom of this post is the commentary I wrote for StreetInsight.com immediately following Apple Computer's conference call discussing its September quarterly earnings. As…
E.W. Scripps (SSP) reported earnings in line with consensus but stronger than I had been anticipating. I came quite close to buying October or November at the money puts yesterday…
Tribune (TRB) are up over 2% since reporting 3Q05 earnings and conducting a conference call on Thursday morning before the open. The key takeaway from the report and call is…
Gannett (GCI) shares initially bounced about 1% off of depressed levels in response to the company's 3Q05 earnings report before retreating to new lows as the market fell on Tuesday…
Quick Summary: Earnings estimates have come down steadily all year and several companies have pre-announced earnings misses for 3Q05. The stocks should be trading well below historical multiples even if…
Monday's close on the S&P 500 was the lowest since May 18th. That is not what I wanted to talk about today but I was a little surprised as I…
Shortly after the open Thursday, I completed the purchase of a position in the Japanese stock market across all client accounts. The purchase was completed through the exchange traded fund…