With quarterly earnings reports set to pour in starting next week, I thought I’d provide a brief overview of what to look for in each of Northlake’s individual stock holdings. Given recent volatility in stocks prices and growing concerns over the future of the US economy, 3Q earnings and guidance commentary may be the most […]
The weekend box office fell 2% for the top 12 grossing films. This breaks a string of 10 consecutive up weekends. The drop-off vs. last year is less than $1.7 million so it is possible, but doubtful, that when actual results as opposed to estimates are tallied the winning streak will continue. The box office […]
Following my post yesterday on Comcast, my buddy, hedge fund manager and soon to be anchor on the Fox Business Channel, Cody Willard, replied with a bearish view of the stock. Among Cody’s objections to my ongoing bullish stance on Comcast is, “$14 billion of market cap losses for wasting tens of billions of shareholder […]
Mea culpa. Comcast made a new low for this latest down move yesterday, falling more than 3% on what looks like its highest volume day ever before recovering slightly to lose 2.7%. This action occurred after the stock rose a whopping 11 cents in Tuesday’s 335 point advance in the Dow. I feel your pain. […]
I want to echo the comments about Time Warner made yesterday by Chris Atayan, my RealMoney.com colleague. Despite renewed speculation, a breakup of the company is unlikely to add value in the near-term. Time Warner is overanalyzed and sum of the parts has been modeled exhaustively. If the sum of the parts were significantly higher […]
New York Times shares traded below $20 yesterday for the first time since April 1997. As recently as June, NYT was over $26. The stock was over $30 almost two years ago exactly. In 2002, NYT shares briefly traded over $50. NYT’s fall yesterday was matched by new lows for McClatchy and Lee Enterprises. Gannett […]
Periodically when the market is in an unusually volatile period I like to look at a performance of a wide variety of indices in order to see if there are any anomalies. This time I decided to look at the recovery off the August 16th intraday low. You will remember that was the day where […]
Cable stocks have been poor performers all year. Things started badly when Comcast raised it s capital spending forecast in conjunction with its 4Q06 earnings reported. The second hit came with 2Q07 results when basic and broadband subscriber growth disappointed pretty much across the board. Access line losses for AT&T and Verizon, basic subscriber losses […]
The following quotes come from a new report on the iPhone from Bernstein Research: “Apple could conceivably sell iPhone hardware at a substantial loss while generating greater profit per iPhone than it does from the highest end iPod…..this potentially gives Apple a storng incentive to price the iPhone aggressively to drive sales, even at the […]
Central European Media Enterprises announced earlier this week that it had gained control of its broadcasting license in Ukraine. This is very good news as license control provides added protection against emerging market political and regulatory risk. CETV now controls its licenses in every country in which it operates (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, […]
