Canadian Technology Stocks
The Dividend 10: Canada’s top Dividend Paying Tech Stocks One only has to look to some of Canada’s largest tech companies to learn that the subject of tech stocks declaring a dividend, especially those loosely classified as growth stocks, is a contentious issue. At CGI Group’s (TSX:GIB.A) annual general meeting this past January the Globe [...]
Early this year Research in Motion sold their fifty-millionth BlackBerry. The rise of the Waterloo, ON based company has become the stuff of legend. The dedication of their followers inspired the phrase “CrackBerry”, a term so apt that the November 2006 Webster’s New World College Dictionary named “CrackBerry” the “New Word of the Year.” Blackberry [...]
Has Canada seen a more compact and dramatic rags-to riches-to rags story than that of Timminco? The spectacular rise and fall of the Toronto based solar-silcon and silcion metal producer seems to be torn from the pages of a Hollywood script or Broadway musical. In late 2006, Timminco shares were worth pennies, closing that year [...]
When your business is growing by leaps and bounds, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. For mobile network operators worldwide, their current situation is a double edged sword. Because everyone, including your grandmother, now has a Blackberry or an iPhone, the congestion and data capacity crisis has come to a [...]
“Introducing inventions with mass appeal to the world.” That slogan is the way that Ottawa’s Wi-LAN, which holds a roster of patents covering everything from Bluetooth technology to WiMAX base stations to routers, sees itself. If certain people, and by certain people we mean people like Judge T. John Ward of the U.S. District Court [...]
If you are trying to measure how fast a company is growing it is, without doubt, best to take a long view. Revenues can be lumpy and unpredictable, especially for smaller companies that are just getting a foothold in the market. Cantech Letter’s own Quant Snapshots look at three year annualized growth. But just for [...]
Mississauga’s Nuvo Research, which has developed an osteoarthritis pain-killing cream that is absorbed through the skin, saw its revenues leap on a milestone payment. Upon receiving FDA approval, Nuvo received $15-million payment from its marketing partner, Covidien. Ultimately the Company received $27.3-million in a single quarter when licensing payments were added to the mix. Nuvo [...]
With the sale of Edmonton based Matrikon (TSX:MTK) to Honeywell for $4.50 per share, the profiled picks of The Dollarton Cantech Letter now have a second gainer of more than 100% on the books (the first happened when we closed coverage on Aastra (TSX:AAH) with a 242% gain). That’s the good news. The bad news [...]
Tomorrow’s Leaders: Ten Canadian Tech Stocks for the Future At Cantech Letter we like value. Talk to us about a tech stock trading under one times sales with 45% of its market cap in cash and our ears perk up. Admittedly, though, being an adherent to any discipline mean you sometimes miss stuff that falls [...]
Ottawa’s Zarlink Semiconductor has been around for quite some time, but has subtly shifted focus of late, entering more specialized markets that leverage expertise the company has gained over three decades. Like most Ottawa based telecom companies, you don’t have to go looking too far for Terry Matthews fingerprints on The Company. Zarlink was born [...]
