1Q22 Earnings Update: Part One – IBM, GOOG, SONY, ATVI, TMUS

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 […]

Riding a New Horse in Wireless

We are calling an audible on our 2021 purchase of AT&T (T).  We have sold the shares and reinvested the proceeds into T Mobile USA (TMUS).  We still see value in T shares.  However, we see more upside in TMUS.  Furthermore, we see the TMUS story playing out over a multiyear period vs. AT&T being […]

Lower Rates Lead to Mixed Impact on High-Dividend Stocks

Surprisingly to Northlake, intermediate and long-term interest rates have fallen slightly over the last several months.  We had been anticipating higher rates as the economy emerged from COVID impacts, inflation held at well-above pre-pandemic levels, the timing of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tightening grew closer.  Instead, for reasons that most on Wall Street still […]

Explaining Income Equities

Beginning this quarter, we are adding a new blog post to cover the income-oriented stock and ETF ideas we have been increasingly using in client portfolios.  Not all clients use these investments, but we have broadened their use, so we thought it would be useful to produce summary commentary each quarter. Up until 2020, most […]