Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
The question has been a hot topic of late, particularly because of tech-giant Apple, which is wondering what to do with the mountains of cash it has made selling iPhones across the globe. Should the company buy back its own shares? Reinvest into new technologies? Invest the money itself? Most investors will answer “None of [...]
Hedge fund manager James Hodgins says investors should be looking at Aastra Technologies (TSX:AAH). Hodgins, Chief Investment Officer with Curvature Hedge Strategies, was on BNN’s Market Call with Host Mark Bunting yesterday to talk about small and midcap stocks. Hodgins says he believes investor sentiment has become overly bullish of late. He says margin debt [...]
For years, we have been hoping for, if not predicting, a resurgence of technology in the Canadian public markets. In 2012, we had that wish fulfilled, at least in part. The technology sector was the top performer of all sectors on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The story of 2012, at least for the first half [...]
“Profit is like food, but cash is like oxygen.” This analogy, attributed to a long-forgotten Silicon Valley exec named Robert C. Wilson, has been repeated for decades by those with an eye for a margin of safety in their investments. Today, tech companies like Apple and Cisco have unprecedented levels of cash in the bank. [...]
Social media juggernaut Facebook today filed its IPO papers. The offering, which will be underwritten by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, amongst others, will value the company at nearly $100 billion, making it the largest internet IPO ever. The company’s form S-1 registration reveals, predictably, that revenue and profit have been climbing for [...]
Considering its financial position, Aastra Technologies (TSX:AAH) is an extremely volatile stock. The stock traded above $40 in 2007, below $8 in 2008, above $36 in 2010, and has now come all the way back down to $13 in 2011. One might expect this kind of stock price volatility for a heavily-levered company with a [...]
For years now, soaring resource prices have meant that anyone pulling most anything out of the ground has done so profitably. Company’s like Calgary Agrium (TSX:AGU), which produces potash and Toronto’s Inmet (TSX:IMN), which has copper interests around the world, are among the most profitable concerns in the country. While technology stocks, outside of Research [...]
On September 26th, 2008 Cantech Letter began profiling Canadian technology stocks in a now regular feature we call Quant Snapshots. Quant Snapshots give our readers the ability to easily compare stocks in terms of basic value metrics such as price to sales and cash to market capitalization. During that time we began to gather those [...]
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 [...]
