Canadian Technology Stocks
BufferIt’s not the frenzy of interest that has preceded the Facebook IPO in the US. Slowly but surely, however, Canadian tech stocks are prying back the Canadian financial media’s overwhelming barrage of mining and metals coverage to reveal a sector that is, on the whole, surprisingly profitable. While the buyout prices lobbed at various boards, [...]
BufferAnother one bites the dust. In 2011, mostly due to buyouts from US firms, we lost many prominent Canadian techs that have been around for decades, including Zarlink, MOSAID and March Networks. Today’s news from Gennum (TSX:GND) confirms, as Byron Capital analysts Tom Astle and Byron Berry recently suggested, that the trend is continuing into [...]
BufferWaterloo gets all the action and Ottawa gets a lot of the credit, but underneath the hustle and bustle that is now, based on employment, North America’s the third largest financial services center after New York and Chicago, Toronto has tech too. And not only does Toronto boast names that have been around since the [...]
BufferSeptember and October are, typically, bad months for stock markets worldwide. Recent concern about the European debt crisis and the possibility of a “double-dip” recession in the United States have ushered in the seasonal jitters; each of the past six days on the Dow Jones has seen a triple-digit move, five of those being red. [...]
BufferYou’re a reporter on the front in Afghanistan with just a Digital SLR, or run a local cable access show that is chasing down a story that happens to have national appeal. Or you’re a producer with amazing footage of that car crash -that was filmed on an iPhone. Broadcasters everywhere receive thousands of signals [...]
BufferYou’re a reporter on the front in Afghanistan with a just a Digital SLR, or run a local cable access show that is chasing down a story that happens to have national appeal. Or you’re a producer with amazing footage of that car crash -that was filmed on an iPhone. Broadcasters everywhere receive thousands of [...]
When we decided to hold the first ever Cantech Letter Awards we were immediately faced with some tough choices. How many categories should there be? Which companies should be eligible? Should we simply take the ten best performing stocks and let our readers vote on them? What about revenue growth, is that more important than share price? Perhaps a combination of the two? Should a percentage gain in either be weighted more heavily to larger stocks? In the end we decided on two categories: Canadian Technology Stock of the Year and Canadian Technology Executive of the Year. We also invited a panel of judges to help us to not only choose the winners, but also the candidates…
Buffer The Leitch Legacy; Five Companies Filling the Void. Five years ago this month, October 25th, 2005 to be precise, Canadians lost the head office of one of our most promising companies. Toronto’s Leitch Technology (TSX:LTV), was a worldwide leader in a host of broadcast technologies. The Company’s Viewguard encryption system, for instance, was used [...]
Buffer 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 [...]
Buffer 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 [...]
