Summertime greetings from North Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, and California (the CoBank conference – Jim and Jennifer Fritzsche of Greenhill pictured). As many of you already know, The Sunday Brief is moving back to the City of Fountains next week after a decade-long absence. It will be good to reacquaint with friends, but we will miss our time on Lake Norman and with the Davidson community.
There has been a lot of news over the last three weeks – some of it involved telecom companies. We are going to cover as much of it as possible in the market commentary section, yet leave enough time to start a new “Strongest” topic where we pick one stock from the Telco Top Five and the Fab Five and explore the reasons why they are in a superior position (product, profits, competitive advantage, etc.) versus their peers. Google and Comcast are by no means