Posts by: Steve Birenberg
For October, Northlake's Market Capitalization favors Mid Cap, a change from the prior two months when Large Cap was favored. Northlake's Style Model for October remains firmly in Value mode....…
Northlake's ETF Plus Model Portfolio performed well in September, gaining 1.95% vs. 0.94% for the S&P 500. Northlake's special situation stocks powered the returns with CETV gaining 3.6%, MOT gaining…
I am a long-time investor and analyst in media stocks of all shapes and sizes. I like media stocks becuase the business is fairly simple, free cash flow capabilities are…
As outlined in recent posts, we expected the weakness experienced by the market the last few days. Besides the poor corporate earnings, which was the catalyst we expected would cause…
The Fed raised rates 25 basis points and kept its commentary relatively unchanged. The market responded with a small rally. The focus will now shift back to earnings, which we…
The Dow and S&P were weak on Monday in the face of earnings warnings from Colgate Palmolive, New York Times, and PMC Sierra. Colgate fell 11%, NY Times fell 2%,…
Lehman Brothers had some interesting research out this morning regarding the seasonality of stock prices as it relates to the third and fourth quarters and election years. This research supports…
The market enters the second half of September near its recent highs after a strong rally off the early August lows. Northlake's recommended stocks and models have performed well in…
No changes to the signals from Northlake's Market Capitalization and Style models for September. The Market Cap model signal favors Large Cap. This model favored either small or mid cap…
The market staged a comback at the end of the month on low volume enabling the S&P 500 to eke out a small gain of about 3/10ths of 1%. Our…
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