Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
“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. [...]
4Front Capital Partners VP and Senior Technology Analyst Dushan Batrovic appeared on BNN’s “The Close” today with host Michael Hainsworth. The range of Batrovic’s coverage universe was on display as he offered opinions on one of Canada’s very largest techs, CGI Group, which he think is overvalued following the acquisition of Logica, and tiny Espial [...]
Shares of Espial (TSX:ESP) were on the move Monday after the company announced it had signed a deal with Panasonic to preintegrate the company’s TV browser on Panasonic Corp.’s semiconductor business group chipset technology. The Espial TV browser supports HTML5, Adobe Flash 11, and has a JavaScript engine. It’s also loaded with a web browser [...]
A tough start to April means the Toronto Stock Exchange has given back most all its early gains for the year. While Canadian technology has not taken off en masse, it seems to finally be facing fewer headwinds the than resource sector. This may come, in part, from the genuine excitement in the space in [...]
Mixed blessings. Because there is nothing particularly in favour in Canadian technology stocks, there’s nothing particularly out of favour, either. Tech stocks currently trading at yearly highs represent a mixed bag from the cleantech, life sciences and technology sub-sectors and the same could be said for those trading at 52 week lows. We count down [...]
Wondering who’s hot? Cantech Letter breaks down the The Top Performing TSX Techs for the week of July 18th to July 22nd. This survey includes any stock listed on the TSX Technology, Cleantech and Life Sciences indexes with a minimum share price of $.10 cents as of July 18th, 2011. The number in brackets is [...]
Canada’s Cashed up Tech Stocks, PART THREE. Companies Listed in the TSX, Technology, Cleantech and Life Sciences Sectors with a Market Cap Less Than $200 million, more than $10 million. 1. Labopharm (TSX:DDS) 225% Market Cap as of Friday, May 20th: $22.1 Million Cash and Short Term Investments: $49.63 Million Workforce reductions, staggering losses, regulatory [...]
2010: The Top 20 Canadian Techs (So far) This Year 2009 was a year of recovery for the worldwide markets, and Canadian tech stocks were no exception. Led by DragonWave (TSX:DWI) which began the year as a TSX Venture stock and ended with a full big board listing and a share price in excess of [...]
Founded in 1997, Ottawa based Espial Group (TSX:ESP) has not been around a very long time. But in the world of IPTV (internet protocol television), which is barely a decade old, Espial is practically a senior citizen. The Company has moved quickly, securing major service provider customers in cable and in telecom. We sat down with President and CEO Jaison Dolvane for “5 Questions” from DVC readers…
