http://www.northlakecapital.com/ en-us steve@northlakecapital.com 2011-07-02T11:53:07-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2011/07/02/mid_cap_and_val_2.html For the seventh consecutive month there were no changes to the signals from Northlake's Market Cap and Style models. Mid Cap and Value continue to be favored. As a result, client positions in the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) and... 1673@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Models 2011-07-02T11:53:07-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2011/07/02/mid_cap_and_val_1.html For the seventh consecutive month there were no changes to the signals from Northlake's Market Cap and Style models. Mid Cap and Value continue to be favored. As a result, client positions in the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) and... 1672@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Models 2011-07-02T11:53:07-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2011/07/02/mid_cap_and_val.html For the seventh consecutive month there were no changes to the signals from Northlake's Market Cap and Style models. Mid Cap and Value continue to be favored. As a result, client positions in the S&P 400 Mid Cap (MDY) and... 1671@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Models 2011-07-02T11:53:07-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2010/07/19/early_2q_earnin_1.html Earnings season is off to a rough start as far as stock prices go. Some stocks gap higher on good numbers but can’t hold the gains (Intel). Some stocks have mixed results and get smacked (GOOG and the big banks).... 1634@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Media 2010-07-19T15:28:19-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2010/07/19/early_2q_earnin.html Earnings season is off to a rough start as far as stock prices go. Some stocks gap higher on good numbers but can’t hold the gains (Intel). Some stocks have mixed results and get smacked (GOOG and the big banks).... 1633@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Media 2010-07-19T15:28:19-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/08/15/normalcy_accomp.html One of Northlake's biggest portfolio headaches is a lot better today. Pain relief came in the form of very solid quarter from American Apparel (APP). 2Q results were inline to a bit better than the few analyst estimates. Revenues of... 1424@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ eda 2008-08-15T15:00:27-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/08/02/why_is_cetv_str_1.html Central European Media Enterprises (CETV) remains my favorite media stock for all time horizons. Despite my enthusiasm the shares have performed poorly this year. Although, within the media stock universe, the 20% drop since June is not unusual. Neither is... 1418@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ CETV 2008-08-02T14:22:21-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/08/02/why_is_cetv_str.html Central European Media Enterprises (CETV) remains my favorite media stock for all time horizons. Despite my enthusiasm the shares have performed poorly this year. Although, within the media stock universe, the 20% drop since June is not unusual. Neither is... 1417@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ CETV 2008-08-02T14:22:21-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/08/02/august_2008_mod.html Once again there were no changes to Northlake's monthly Market Cap and Style models. The Market Cap signal remains mid cap and the Style signal remains growth. As a result, Northlake continues to own the S&P 400 (MDY) and the... 1416@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Models 2008-08-02T13:20:48-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/03/19/big_media_funda.html Catching up some email, I found a couple of interesting pieces on the major media companies from Merrill Lynch analyst and my friend, Jessica Reif Cohen. Back in early March, Jessica noted that as a group the media companies she... 1338@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Media 2008-03-19T09:35:52-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/03/18/good_news_from.html I was quite pleased with the 4Q07 results, 2008 guidance, and conference call from American Apparel (APP), which reported after the close last night. The consensus I was using consisted of just one analyst so it wasn't really meaningful. Just... 1337@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ eda 2008-03-18T09:32:49-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/03/12/cetv_presents_a_1.html Central European Media Enterprises (CETV) shares have steadied since the sharp fall last week following announcement and pricing of their convertible deal. The timing on the convert was terrible coming in the midst of the market's meltdown. I think the... 828@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ CETV 2008-03-12T14:05:38-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/03/11/weekend_box_off_7.html The weekend box office fell by 33% against what is probably the toughest comparison it will face until May. The box office has now declined for 5 straight weekends but remains up almost 7% year to date. Comps may remain... 826@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Box Office 2008-03-11T11:34:41-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/03/10/studios_and_the.html Reuters is reporting that theatre chains representing 40% of North American screens and the major movie studios have finally agreed to a financing plan to upgrade 14,000 movie screens to digital and 3-D capable technology. The upgrade will cost about... 824@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Box Office 2008-03-10T15:19:55-06:00 http://www.northlakecapital.com/clients/2008/03/08/final_wrapup_of.html The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) released its package of theatrical market statistics for 2007 last week. Most of the data I have already recounted in my many updates about the box office. However, there is some interesting data,... 823@http://www.northlakecapital.com/ Box Office 2008-03-08T12:19:30-06:00