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In an SEC filing yesterday, Franklin Mutual Advisers indicated that it is seeking talks with management and other shareholders of Virgin Media (VMED) in light of VMED’s recently released first…
Lots of Madness in Mid-May following the completion of quarterly earnings season: • The Wall Street Journal speculates that a merger between the NBC Universal division of General Electric (GE)…
Viacom (VIA) reported slightly better than expected 1Q07 results. Trends did not differ greatly from analyst expectations but the risk was to the downside so I think the results will…
Disney (DIS) reported very good 2Q07 results driven by strong margin performance across all five operating segments. Better profitability allowed EPS to easily exceed consensus estimates coming in at 44…
Northlake clients have owned a position in Japan via the iShares MSCI Japan Index (EWJ) for over two years. Until yesterday that is. At the open, I sold the entire…
Margin expansion should propel Disney (DIS) to another quarter of greater than 10% growth in operating income when it reports 2Q07 results after the close on Tuesday. Revenue and EPS…
Warner Music Group (WMG) reported slightly better than expected 2Q07 results with revenues of $784 million and EBITDA of $96 million both soundly beating analyst estimates. Despite the big beat…
Spiderman 3 blew away the all-time opening weekend box office brining in $148 million in domestic box office. The old record was set last year by Pirates of the Caribbean:…
1Q07 results and 2007 guidance from Central European Media Enterprises (CETV) are very positive. My bullish interpretation was further reinforced following the conference call and a quick read of the…
I covered eight media earnings calls this week in addition to closing the books on the month of April and getting fresh updates on Northlake's Market Cap and Style models.…