As reported in the Wall St. Journal on Wednesday, April 22nd shares of Aastra rocketed as The Company reported earnings that more than tripled and sales that soared 56%. Several analysts boosted their targets on the stock, including National Bank Financial, who called the results “aastra-nomical.” The DVC Smalltech Letter profiled Aastra on November 24, 2008 when the shares were $8.94. With the stock up more than 300% since our profile date, we revisited Aastra Technologies to take a look at their numbers again.

Quant Snapshot: Intrinsyc Software (TSX:ICS)

The DVC Smalltech Letter uses five simple, yet underutilized metrics to uncover the real value behind small Canadian tech stocks. With the new graphical elements we have introduced you can get a sense for a company’s value at a glance -or choose to dig deeper.

DVC breaks down the numbers on Victoria based Carmanah Technologies. Carmanah is a provider of stand-alone solar-powered LED lights and beacons, and solar power systems for industrial applications worldwide. The Company was founded in 1996 and has approximately 200 employees worldwide.
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Founded in 1998, Edmonton based Matrikon is a provider of IT software and solutions. The Company derives revenue from The Matrikon Suite of web-based products and optimization services to leaders in oil and gas, petrochemicals, cement, utilities, pulp and paper, automotives and heavy equipment, discrete manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage processing. The Company’s clients include Anheuser-Busch, Black & Decker, Boeing, Chevron, Coca-Cola, ConocoPhillips, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Fujitsu and General Motors.

Welcome to the new DVC Smalltech Letter. As most of you know, we have been publishing since September 08. This, however, is the first issue of our more graphical, magazine style. Our bread and butter is bringing you quant based research snapshots of the best small Canadian tech companies. But now you can get the word direct from the source with our “5 Questions” with management series, discuss and chat each piece with other subscribers and watch video, too. In short, it’s a better more interactive place to find and discuss the best small tech companies in Canada. In this issue Leslie Klein, President and CEO of C-Com Satellite takes “5 Questions” from Smalltech Letter subscribers, we update our market beating performance and give you up to date “Quant SnapShots” on Matrikon, Chartwell, Intrinsyc, Jemtec, Tecsys and more…

The DVC Smalltech Letter profile companies rallied with the broader market in March, narrowing their losses to just 5.3%, on average. DVC Smalltech Letter profile companies continue to outperform the TSX, which was still off more than 25% in the same time frame (September 26, 2008-April 6, 2009).