Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
The rest of the world is finally starting to realize that Canada is more than pucks and pipelines. Sunday’s edition of USA Today featured an article by Peter Moreira called “Beyond BlackBerry, Canadian tech is humming”. The article talks about how a vibrant tech sector has grown up in the considerable shadow of BlackBerry. “No [...]
This morning, Descartes System Group (TSX:DSG) reported its Q4 and fiscal 2013 results. For the year, The Waterloo-based company earned $15.99-million on revenue of $126.9-million. Q4 revenue came in $33.8-million, which was up 14% from Q4, 2012′s $29.6-million topline. CEO Art Mesher said the company is winning business because its practices are modern. “The world [...]
This piece is dedicated to Verna Miller, mother of my beloved wife of 22 years, who passed away December 28, 2012. I find myself today at the Eagle’s Nest. For those of you who don’t know me well, the Eagle’s Nest is my home on the cliffs of Wisconsin. It’s where I have done all [...]
Over the past several weeks, we have spent a lot of time looking back. 2012 was quietly the turnaround year we had hoped for in Canadian tech, the sector ended the year tops on the TSX. Of course the story of 2012, at least for the first half of the year, was the continuation of [...]
Late in 2012, Research in Motion still grabs most every tech headline here in Canada, but the names it overshadows are starting to make a real impact, says one of Canada’s top ranked tech analysts. Cantor Fitzgerald’s Director of Canadian Research Tom Liston was on BNN’s Business Day with host Marty Cej last week to [...]
Descartes Systems (TSX:DSG) this morning reported its Q3, 2013 results. The company earned $3.11-million on revenue of $32.7-million which was up 15% from the same period a year prior. CEO Art Mesher offered a backdrop to the results. “We have a culture of serving customers and working together as one learning team,” he said. “Our [...]
Descartes Systems (TSX:DSG) last week held its annual Descartes Evolution Conference in Fort Lauderdale. The get-together, says Descartes, let users meet the management team to discuss product developments plans and look for ways to improve their operations. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Tom Liston attended the conference. Liston, who covered Descartes with his previous firm, Versant Partners, [...]
Descartes (TSX:DSG) CEO Art Mesher arrived at the morning session of the M Partners Tech12 Conference in Toronto today to deliver what he said was a new presentation aimed at US shareholders. Mesher said he is unsatisfied with valuation multiples granted his company north of the border, and intends to take advantage of the company’s [...]
In September, Cantech Letter will be on hand for the M Partners Tech 12 Investor Conference in Toronto. This year’s proceedings will follow the success of last year’s jam packed event, in which institutional investors heard from Canadian tech luminaries such as Art Mesher of Descartes Systems Group and Jim Skippen of Wi-LAN. As tech [...]
Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) CEO Art Mesher appeared on BNN’s “The Close” Tuesday to weigh in on an ongoing series at BNN called “The Next Big Thing in Tech”. Mesher says federated networks; technology that links individual parts of a supply chain to streamline delivery and lower costs are, in fact, the logical evolution of [...]
