Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL): GOOGL reported mixed results for 3Q23. The two dominant businesses, Search and YouTube, had better-than-expected revenue growth as advertising accelerated ahead of high expectations. On the downside, Cloud revenue grew more slowly than expected, up 22%, with management alluding to cloud spending optimization that has previously tripped up Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, […]
IBM (IBM): IBM reported an inline quarter with the normal give and take that any large, diversified corporation will experience. All guidance was reiterated with a slight boost to the growth rate for software revenue. Software was a little better than expected driven by double-digit growth at Red Hat for hybrid cloud and transaction processing […]
Given the excitement surrounding Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) since Microsoft and OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public in November, we thought it would be educational, interesting, and fun to let GAI write our regular quarterly earnings updates. ChatGPT only has data through 2021, so we are using Google’s GAI app, Bard. Kind of fun to […]
SONY Corporation (SONY): SONY reported a good quarter with modest beats on operating income driven by profit margins. The company passed through a portion of the beat to its full-year operating income forecast. Often companies that only pass through a portion of an earnings beat are penalized, but that usually does not apply to SONY […]
The stock market is off to a great start in 2023 in line with Northlake’s Market Outlook anticipating more volatility, avoidance of a severe recession, and positive returns in 2023. We are encouraged that our models, favored themes, and individual stocks are off to a good start. Our Market Cap model favors mid cap again […]
IBM (IBM): IBM reported good results in a tough macro environment, further increasing our confidence in the transformation underway at the company. Revenue and EPS exceeded expectations with strength across all segments of the company. Management raised 2022 revenue guidance and maintained free cash flow guidance. The only real negative in the quarter and outlook […]
Due to Steve’s travel schedule, we are going to try something new this quarter with our quarterly blog updates on individual stocks held widely in Northlake accounts. Rather than publish a separate commentary on each stock, we are going to produce two or three updates with each containing comments on several stocks. This will result […]
Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL) reported another outstanding quarter led by search advertising along with solid contributions from YouTube and Cloud. Profit margins were better than expected. All this good news was juiced by the announcement of a 20-for-1 stock split that will become effective in July. We see little economic value in stock splits and history suggests […]
Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL) reported better than expected earnings with revenues, expenses, and EPS all coming in ahead of expectations. The revenue upside was especially impressive given the turmoil in internet and mobile advertising caused by Apple’s privacy initiatives. Google did not escape completely unscathed as YouTube ad growth was a few percent less than expected (although […]
Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL) reported another outstanding quarter with growth in revenues, operating income, and EPS easily beating elevated Wall Street estimates. This is the third straight quarter where GOOG has beaten Wall Street estimates. Importantly, overall revenue growth accelerated to 32% on a constant-currency basis from the impressive 23% growth rate in 4Q20. The string of […]
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