My guest on the show today is John Petrides, Portfolio Manager at Tocqueville Asset Management. This is primarily a MicroCap podcast, we chat all about the world of MicroCap stocks and what is going on in the space. Today, we go macro. There's a world beyond our little bubble here in MicroCaps, and some of what's happening there can have a trickle down effect. John is a regular guest on several financial news networks for his market insights and analysis. I'm putting on my best CNBC / Fox Busine...
Apr 12, 2023•40 min•Ep. 338
My guest on the show today is Warren Kruger, CEO of Greystone Logistics, Inc. (OTCQB: GLGI). Greystone Logistics, Inc. is focused on the fast-growing plastic segment of the $9.5 billion pallet industry, with its manufacturing facility located in Bettendorf, IA and its Executive offices located in Tulsa, OK. For those wondering what a pallet is, those are the flat wooden structures that heavy goods are put so that they can be moved using a fork-lift truck. One of the key differentiators is that t...
Apr 10, 2023•39 min•Ep. 337
My guest on the show today is Chris Tessin, Managing Partner and CIO of Acuitas Investments. As the title states, Acuitas is the largest allocator to MicroCap managers in the world - their Microcap strategy pursues its investment objective using a multi-manager process by allocating assets among one or more high confidence managers that invest in inefficient segments of the equity markets. I wanted to learn more about their MicroCap fund of funds strategy and their experience working with MicroC...
Apr 04, 2023•50 min•Ep. 336
My guest on the show today is Ryan Goepel, CFO of Global Crossing Airlines Group, Inc. (NEO: JET) (OTCQB: JETMF). Global Crossing Airlines Group, also known as GlobalX, is a US 121 domestic flag and supplemental Airline flying the Airbus A320 family aircraft. GlobalX flies as a passenger ACMI and charter airline serving the US, Caribbean, European and Latin American markets. In 2023, GlobalX entered ACMI cargo market flying the A321 freighter. I found Global Crossing Airlines Group on several fo...
Mar 31, 2023•40 min•Ep. 335
My guests on the show today are Josh Womack and Tom Carey from Womack Capital Partners. This episode is especially timely with our conference coming up in Las Vegas because, as we covered here many times before, when you invest in a MicroCap stocks, you're primarily making a bet on the jockey aka management. That means part of your due diligence process, in my opinion, should be listening to conference calls, interviews, presentations management has done, as well as meet with management in a 1x1...
Mar 28, 2023•44 min•Ep. 334
My guest on the show today is Greg Reid, President and CEO of Kraken Robotics (TSX-V: PNG, OTCQB: KRKNF). Kraken Robotics Inc. is a marine technology company providing complex subsea sensors, batteries, and robotic systems. Their high-resolution 3D acoustic imaging solutions and services enable clients to overcome the challenges in our oceans – safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Kraken Robotics is headquartered in Canada and has offices in North and South America and Europe. Kraken is ranked ...
Mar 24, 2023•47 min•Ep. 333
My guest on the show today is Ryan Irvine, Founder of Keystone Financial. He'll be joining us in Las Vegas, where not only will he be on the Planet MicroCap Podcast: LIVE panel along with Sam Namiri, Harris Perlman and Mathieu Martin, Ryan will be moderating a few sessions with companies that are within the "Keystone Coverage" universe. Ryan's firm, Keystone Financial, is an independent research firm that provides their investors with BUY/SELL/HOLD advice on undervalued micro, small, and mid-cap...
Mar 21, 2023•43 min•Ep. 332
My guest on the show today is Anthony Ambrose, President & CEO of Data I/O (NASDAQ: DAIO). Data I/O (NASDAQ: DAIO) is a global provider of advanced data and security deployment solutions. These solutions are used by some of the world’s largest manufacturers, programming centers, and contract manufacturers to securely program integrated circuits and bring their electronic devices to life. Virtually every electronic product today incorporates one or more programmable semiconductor devices that...
Mar 16, 2023•52 min•Ep. 331
My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder & CEO of GeoInvesting.com. In my opinion, Maj is a legend in MicroCap investing. In my nearly 10+ years of getting to know Maj, his investing style, and how he evaluates companies, he's on the Mount Rushmore of MicroCap investors of the last 20+ years. This is the reason I invite Maj to be a guest on my show, as well as headline any conference we do. When he speaks, you should listen, and if you have a chance to meet him and chat with him, ...
Mar 14, 2023•45 min•Ep. 330
My guest on the show today is Dr. Halden Shane, CEO & Chairman of TOMI™ Environmental Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: TOMZ). TOMI™ Environmental Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: TOMZ) is a global decontamination and infection prevention company, providing environmental solutions for disinfection through the manufacturing, sales and licensing of its premier Binary Ionization Technology® (BIT™) platform. Invented under a defense grant in association with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ...
Mar 09, 2023•35 min•Ep. 329
My guest on the show today is Patrick Flood, Investment Analysts for the LATAM Stocks Newsletter. Latin America consists of 20 countries and a population of more than 650 million people, and it is one of, maybe even the most under followed and under invested regions in the world. Is it geopolitical risk (no doubt there's that and not diminishing the significance of that risk whatsoever - we talk about it at length), but could it also be, well - it's also really hard to find good information abou...
Mar 07, 2023•34 min•Ep. 328
My guest on the show today is Jerry Flum, Chairman and CEO, and Michael Flum, President and COO, of CreditRiskMonitor.com, Inc. (OTCQX: CRMZ). CreditRiskMonitor® (creditriskmonitor.com) sells a suite of web-based, SaaS subscription products providing access to comprehensive commercial credit reports, bankruptcy risk analytics, financial and payment information, and curated news on public and private companies worldwide. The products help corporate credit and procurement professionals stay ahead ...
Mar 02, 2023•59 min•Ep. 327
Speaking of Vegas, we just announced initial speakers and sponsors for our event, a list that includes my guest today on the show, Andrew Walker, Host of the Yet Another Value Podcast. Andrew will be hosting three (3) LIVE podcast conversations, three separate guests with three different ideas being discussed. We are about TWO MONTHS AWAY now, so be sure to register at www.PlanetMicroCapShowcase.com . Andrew and I also recently announced our collaboration on his show, Yet Another Value Podcast. ...
Feb 28, 2023•36 min•Ep. 326
My guest on the show today is Carol Craig, Chairwoman and CEO of Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU). Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, operates from a 35,000-square-foot manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing facility focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection. The company’s rich heritage includes the design and manufacture of many flight and ground component parts and systems for various space-related customers and programs....
Feb 23, 2023•41 min•Ep. 325
For today's show, I invited back on Yaron Naymark, Founder and Portfolio Manager at 1 Main Capital. Last time I had Yaron on the show, it was in July 2022 chatting about the First Half 2022 MicroCap bloodbath, which of course we all know, got worse (Planet MicroCap Index was down ~40% for the year). I've had a few investors on here to start 2023, where we dissected 2022, what worked, what didn't, and while Yaron and I start off the conversation that way, the reason I always enjoy having him on t...
Feb 21, 2023•40 min•Ep. 324
For today's show, I invited on David Wenger, Founder and CEO of ShareIntel. Since the start of 2023, I've started seeing more news releases saying, "ABCD Company Reports on Ongoing Investigation into Potentially Improper and Illegal Trading Activity in the Company’s Common Stock." This was a first for me, and a trend that I wanted to understand better: is this the same fight as the AMC/Gamestop short squeeze that galvanized retail investors to fight back against Wall Street? If so, are select Mi...
Feb 16, 2023•42 min•Ep. 323
My guest on the show today is Mark Walker, Chairman and CEO of Direct Digital Holdings (NASDAQ: DRCT).Direct Digital Holdings, owner of operating companies Colossus SSP, Huddled Masses, and Orange 142, brings state-of-the-art sell- and buy-side advertising platforms together under one umbrella company. Direct Digital Holdings' sell-side platform, Colossus SSP, offers advertisers of all sizes extensive reach within general market and multicultural media properties. The company's subsidiaries Hudd...
Feb 09, 2023•33 min•Ep. 322
For today's show, I invited on Brent Cook, Founder of Exploration Insights. The first conferences I went to in my career was going to junior mining conferences back in 2011 - I think I went to 3 or 4. Sentiment was extremely high, gold crossed the $1,800/oz threshold and every newsletter writer and gold bug espoused that $5,000/oz was not out of the question by the end of 2012. Sounds eerily familiar, eh? In any case, resources markets have had a rocky 10+ years - some ups and downs mostly drive...
Feb 07, 2023•24 min•Ep. 321
My guest on the show today is Gerry Jacobs, CEO, and Nick Warrender, COO, LFTD Partners, Inc. (OTCQB: LIFD). LFTD Partners Inc., Jacksonville, FL (OTCQB ticker symbol LIFD) is the parent corporation of Lifted Made, Kenosha, WI ( www.LiftedMade.com ), which manufactures and sells hemp-derived and psychoactive products under its Urb Finest Flowers and Silly Shruum brands. LFTD Partners Inc. also owns 4.99% of CBD-infused beverage and products maker Ablis Holding Company ( www.AblisBev.com ), and o...
Feb 02, 2023•50 min•Ep. 320
For today's show, I invited on Hermann Peterscheck, Founder and Portfolio Manager at Hypernormal Capital Management LLC. I met him recently when he participated in the Stock Pitch World Cup on Team Europe. Also a US-resident, he was on Team Europe because he was pitching a video game development company based in Europe. I started thinking about my own experience with video games, and it took me a minute because my heyday was playing FIFA and Madden on Playstation 2. Safe to say, the gaming indus...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 319
For today's show, I invited on Eden Rahim, Portfolio Manager for the Next Edge Biotech and Life Sciences Opportunities Fund. It's been a bloodbath for biotech in the last two years - according to the S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index, the sector has been down ~45-50%. At the same time, in 2023, also according to the S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index, the sector is up about 4-5% already on the year (as of January 20, 2023). Whether this is a sign that things are looking up for...
Jan 26, 2023•40 min•Ep. 318
For today's show, I invited on Avi Fisher, Portfolio Manager and Chief Curiosity Officer at Long Cast Advisors. Avi and I start off the conversation reflecting on 2022, and that quickly evolved into how Avi's experience in 2020 set him up for a year, like 2022, was for MicroCaps. Specifically, he shares the best advice he received in the midst of a tough 2020 - "Don't Let Long-term Investing Blur into Entropy"; I think this phrase works for all investors and, in my opinion, can be a helpful conc...
Jan 24, 2023•54 min•Ep. 317
My guest on the show today is Aurora Davidson, President and CEO of Amerigo Resources Ltd. (TSX: ARG) / (OTCQX: ARREF). Amerigo is an innovative copper producer with a long-term relationship with Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (“Codelco”), the world’s largest copper producer. Amerigo produces copper concentrate and molybdenum concentrate as a by-product at the MVC operation in Chile by processing fresh and historic tailings from Codelco’s El Teniente mine, the world's largest undergroun...
Jan 19, 2023•40 min•Ep. 316
For today's show, I invited back on Adam Wilk, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Greystone Capital Management. It's still January, it's still time to reflect on the year that was, and so, we did just that. Last time I had Adam on was about 4 years ago, and since then his fund has grown, as well as his experience as a MicroCap investor. We jam on a few topics here today: what worked for him in 2022, specifically: businesses doing accretive M&A (which we get into more) and activist involvement,...
Jan 18, 2023•53 min•Ep. 315
As of Sunday, January 8, 2023, China has re-opened its doors to travellers. In the previous few months, while the rest of the world has gone back to pre-pandemic guidelines and everything has opened up, China had remained on very strict lockdowns, and from a international business perspective, folks were wondering what are we supposed to do about this - will China ever re-open? If so, what will the new restrictions be? Also, how do we think about China within the international business community...
Jan 10, 2023•39 min•Ep. 314
My guest on the show today is William Trainer, CEO, President, Director of Vicinity Motor Corp. (NASDAQ: VEV) (TSX-V: VMC). Vicinity Motor Corp. is a North American supplier of electric vehicles for both public and commercial enterprise use. The Company leverages a dealer network and close relationships with world-class manufacturing partners to supply its flagship electric, CNG and clean-diesel Vicinity buses, the VMC 1200 electric truck and a VMC Optimal-EV shuttle bus. I've known Vicinity for...
Jan 05, 2023•41 min•Ep. 313
I invited Artem Fokin, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Caro-Kann Capital to do our version of a 2022 wrap-up in MicroCaps and whether or not our observations could be indicators of trends for 2023. 2022 was a difficult year for almost everyone's portfolio across the board, especially if you are an active MicroCap investor, and so we reflect on events that could've been catalysts for steep declines in MicroCap stock prices. Artem and I also provide our observations, including our thoughts on who...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 312
Stock Pitch World Cup™ - Team Canada hosted by Paul Andreola at the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VIRTUAL | December 6-8, 2022. Stock Pitchers: Sharon Wang, PenderFund Harold Leishman, Canaccord Genuity Ryan Irvine, Keystone Financial @RyanIrvine75 Mathieu Martin, Rivemont MicroCap Fund @espacemc Video version of the Stock Pitch World Cup™ - Team Canada, can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16dgPQpvcM This podcast was recorded and is being made available by SNN, Inc. (together with i...
Dec 29, 2022•54 min•Ep. 310
Stock Pitch World Cup™ - Team USA hosted by Maj Soueidan at the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VIRTUAL | December 6-8, 2022. Stock Pitchers: Quim Abril @AbrilQuim Jan Svenda @JanSvenda Scott Weis, Semco Capital Video version of the Stock Pitch World Cup™ - Team USA, can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJq7o9Za1I This podcast was recorded and is being made available by SNN, Inc. (together with its affiliates and its and their employees, “SNN”) solely for informational purposes. SNN is...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 309
Stock Pitch World Cup™ - Team Asia hosted by Kelvin Seetoh at the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VIRTUAL | December 6-8, 2022. Stock Pitchers: Michael Fritzell @Fritz88 Tan Jun Hao @jhcapitall Video version of the Stock Pitch World Cup™ - Team Asia, can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hq8qVNqGEo This podcast was recorded and is being made available by SNN, Inc. (together with its affiliates and its and their employees, “SNN”) solely for informational purposes. SNN is not providing or...
Dec 27, 2022•45 min•Ep. 308
