GeoInvesting research contributor Thomas Birnie’s perspective on investing is characterized by a transition towards a more consistent, long-term strategy irrespective of market conditions. His investment philosophy centers around identifying high-quality businesses trading at what he perceives as good or undervalued prices, with a particular focus on the small and microcap sectors, where he sees significant opportunity.
FTG CEO Brad Bourne’s career has been deeply rooted in the aerospace and defense sectors, reflecting a long-standing passion for these industries. He joined FTG when it was a relatively small enterprise based in Toronto, operating with a revenue of about $20 million. Under his leadership, FTG has aimed to double its business every five years, a goal that, despite challenges such as the pandemic, has seen substantial progress.
A few weeks ago, I revisited the infrastructure screen we began to develop back in 2016, a project I hadn’t examined closely for quite some time. Upon looking at that update that showed up-to-date average returns of 247.91% for the stocks included in the screen, I felt it was time to re-evaluate the past inclusions.
As a follow-up to last week’s primer on the upcoming Skull Session roundtable that was about to take place on February 21, 2024, this week is the perfect opportunity to review the discussion I had with the panel of microcap investing experts to shed light on the nuanced strategies of investing in the small to microcap space, with the expressed intent of idea discovery, case studies and at times, pitches.
Investors have not found one of our Top 5 Fave Model Portfolio holdings that should benefit from the AI “hype” that is not actually hype. We have followed it for 7 years, but today, the company is led by a new CEO that used to work for its biggest customer.
This little known data center company generates around $20 million in revenue, is profitable and has a major customer at the front lines of building out AI data center infrastructure with its partner, NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA).
In light of my upcoming peer discussion I’ve been talking about in the last 2 Monthly Forums, I figured that I would use this week as a primer to convey my excitement surrounding the expansion of GeoInvesting’s “Skull Session” events into 2024 focusing on engaging more deeply with investors through insightful roundtables.
The digital landscape has undergone a seismic shift in the past few decades, transitioning from traditional, monolithic software development practices to the modern, agile, and infinitely scalable solutions offered by cloud computing.
This immense sea of legacy code highlights the challenges and opportunities in transitioning to cloud computing, an endeavor that demands innovative approaches and technologies, including the potential, yet debated, role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a discussion point elucidated upon by industry expert and COO of a COBOL modernization company, Bonnie Castello, with whom we spoke in mid-January during an Expert Insight Skull Session chat we hosted.
While perusing Twitter, I came across a Twitter post by Clark Square Capital (@ClarkSquareCap) highlighting a list of stocks from the River Oaks Capital H2 2023 Report that included a table of companies that were labeled as either an ‘Excessive Discount’ or ‘Wonderful Business’. We recommend that you read the entire update to get a feel on their take on stock idea discovery.