Comcast remains a tale of COVID winners and COVID losers. The cable/Xfinity business is performing great, driven by broadband. Cord cutting has minimal impact given margin dynamics and the fact that you cannot really cut the TV cord without maintaining the broadband cord. The NBCUniversal and traditional media side is still feeling pressure from COVID. […]
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Apple reported an extremely good December quarter to open the company’s 2021 fiscal year. Strength was across the board in all products, services, and geographies. The results materially exceeded high expectations. Northlake sees two key long-term takeaways from the results. First, the iPhone remains healthy and is poised for several years of growth as 5G […]
IBM reported disappointing 4Q20 earnings although there were positives that support Northlake’s investment thesis. EPS exceeded expectations, but the upside was due to below-the-line or non-operating items. The culprit in the quarter was revenue weakness. We are not surprised by a revenue shortfall given IBM has a lot of exposure to on-premises enterprise spending in […]
We recently added Sony (SNE) to Northlake client accounts. In many cases, we partially paid for the investment in SNE by selling shares of ViacomCBS (VIAC). SNE is well-known for its consumer electronics products, but this is just a small part of the company. The key growth drivers are video games, music, TV and film […]
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There are no changes to Northlake’s favored themes for December. We remain neutral on growth versus value and continue to favor mid caps. As a result, current client positions following the models in the Russell 1000 Growth (IWF), the Russell 1000 Value (IWD), and the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) will be held for at […]
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Home Depot (HD) shares are unchanged since August including a pullback of about 5% since reporting 3Q21 earnings in November. Not much has really changed over this time frame. The stock is just consolidating the huge move off the March COVID-driven low. With the shares up from Northlake’s initial purchase at $190 to almost $300 […]
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Home Depot (HD) shares are unchanged since August including a pullback of about 5% since reporting 3Q21 earnings in November. Not much has really changed over this time frame. The stock is just consolidating the huge move off the March COVID-driven low. With the shares up from Northlake’s initial purchase at $190 to almost $300 […]
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There are no changes to Northlake’s favored themes for December. We remain neutral on growth versus value and continue to favor mid caps. As a result, current client positions following the models in the Russell 1000 Growth (IWF), the Russell 1000 Value (IWD), and the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) will be held for at […]
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Disney (DIS) reported another quarter of massive subscriber gains for Disney+ and steady growth for the Hulu and ESPN streaming services. Subscribers for Disney+ came in at almost 74mm vs expectations of 65mm, growth of about 16mm subscribers since the end of last quarter. About half the gain came from India, where DIS charges less […]
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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 […]
Comcast Set to Emerge Strongly from COVID
Comcast remains a tale of COVID winners and COVID losers. The cable/Xfinity business is performing great, driven by broadband. Cord cutting has minimal impact given margin dynamics and the fact that you cannot really cut the TV cord without maintaining the broadband cord. The NBCUniversal and traditional media side is still feeling pressure from COVID. […]
Apple Fully Ripe After Exceptional Quarterly Results
Apple reported an extremely good December quarter to open the company’s 2021 fiscal year. Strength was across the board in all products, services, and geographies. The results materially exceeded high expectations. Northlake sees two key long-term takeaways from the results. First, the iPhone remains healthy and is poised for several years of growth as 5G […]
Is Bull Thesis Still Intact at IBM?
IBM reported disappointing 4Q20 earnings although there were positives that support Northlake’s investment thesis. EPS exceeded expectations, but the upside was due to below-the-line or non-operating items. The culprit in the quarter was revenue weakness. We are not surprised by a revenue shortfall given IBM has a lot of exposure to on-premises enterprise spending in […]
Adding Growth and Value with Sony
We recently added Sony (SNE) to Northlake client accounts. In many cases, we partially paid for the investment in SNE by selling shares of ViacomCBS (VIAC). SNE is well-known for its consumer electronics products, but this is just a small part of the company. The key growth drivers are video games, music, TV and film […]
Moving to Small Caps to Begin 2021
There are no changes to Northlake’s favored themes for December. We remain neutral on growth versus value and continue to favor mid caps. As a result, current client positions following the models in the Russell 1000 Growth (IWF), the Russell 1000 Value (IWD), and the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) will be held for at […]
Home Depot Still Building Value
Home Depot (HD) shares are unchanged since August including a pullback of about 5% since reporting 3Q21 earnings in November. Not much has really changed over this time frame. The stock is just consolidating the huge move off the March COVID-driven low. With the shares up from Northlake’s initial purchase at $190 to almost $300 […]
Adding to Home Depot
Home Depot (HD) shares are unchanged since August including a pullback of about 5% since reporting 3Q21 earnings in November. Not much has really changed over this time frame. The stock is just consolidating the huge move off the March COVID-driven low. With the shares up from Northlake’s initial purchase at $190 to almost $300 […]
Ready for the Rotation Trade
There are no changes to Northlake’s favored themes for December. We remain neutral on growth versus value and continue to favor mid caps. As a result, current client positions following the models in the Russell 1000 Growth (IWF), the Russell 1000 Value (IWD), and the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) will be held for at […]
Streaming Subscriber Growth and Vaccines Bullish for Disney
Disney (DIS) reported another quarter of massive subscriber gains for Disney+ and steady growth for the Hulu and ESPN streaming services. Subscribers for Disney+ came in at almost 74mm vs expectations of 65mm, growth of about 16mm subscribers since the end of last quarter. About half the gain came from India, where DIS charges less […]
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 […]