Canadian Technology Stocks
BufferIs solar in or out of fashion this week? What about wind? Is hydro cool today? Few sectors are as cyclical as renewable energy. One day we’re hearing about feed-in tariffs sparking a frenzy in the Chinese solar industry, the next we are hearing about its imminent demise. Longueuil, Quebec’s Innergex Renewable (TSX:INE) was one [...]
BufferLongueuil, Quebec’s Innergex Renewable Energy (TSX:INE), which was founded back in 1990 but IPO’d in 2007, already knows better than most that the market can be fickle. After debuting at $11 a share, the cleantech offering almost immediately rose to $14. But the seemingly inevitable losses that saddle many with expansionary ambitions in the space [...]
BufferAre Canadian cleantech stocks dead money? Check out a long term chart of most of the issues in the sector stocks and you’ll find a persistent pattern; they fly high on promise then crash and burn on reality. That reality, more often than not, is that most new technologies face a longer and more arduous [...]
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…
BufferIf 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 [...]
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 [...]
Despite what he describes as our “lackluster approach to climate change”, new Cantech Letter contributor Tom Konrad is often surprised at how many of his favorite green stocks are listed in Canada. In our March issue. Tom critiques the recently published Corporate Knights “Cleantech 10 List”, getting us up to date on our top Cleantech firms.
2010 is barely upon us, yet some stocks in the TSX and TSXV Cleantech Index are out to a roaring start. In fact, the top company on this list has already tacked on almost 93% to its 2009 closing price. The editors of The Dollarton Cantech Letter give you the top five Cleantech gainers so far this year.
