10 Minute Investing Canada

This episode we discuss the etf ZQQ by BMO. It is a Canadian dollar hedged etf tracking the NASDAQ 100. I also discuss some general market sentiment and the recent blood bath we have seen in the past month of the market.  This podcast is for educational purposes and is not financial advice.

KRBN, KCCA, KEUA Discuss carbon credit investing, and 3 vehicles for exposure to the carbon credit futures market for retail investors. This podcast is for educational purposes only, this is not financial advice.

Today we discuss the benefits to dividend investing, and how setting up a strong income portfolio can set you up for financial freedom later in life. Topics covered  - Psychological benefits to dividend investing, and how it is easier to hold through market down turns when you are being compensated for holding shares - Dividends as a hedge against inflation by a way of profit sharing with companies. As prices and profits rise, so do your payments - Dividends can be more tax efficient then other forms of income. Couple of examples used - Sample income through investing in a dividend portfolio This podcast is for educational purposes only, not financial advise.

Looking back at the companies spotlighted in episodes over the past 3 months, and seeing what the performance looks like. I provide some rationale as to why I believe they have performed as they have, and what I am anticipating for the future. This is not investment advice, this is for educational purposes only.

The first in a line of Beginner Investor Series podcasts on portfolio construction This episode focuses on your 'why'  Why do you invest? Is there an event you saving for like buying a house, or paying for a child's education? Do you just genuinely enjoy finance and stock picking, and like playing the game? Maybe you invest in companies you align your values with, and you believe in their mission. Today hones in on your 'why' and if you don't have that nailed down, it is a critical piece to creating a portfolio that is right for you. If there is one thing that always holds true about personal finance, is that is is just that... personal Podcast is for educational purposes only. Not financial advice 

Enthusiast gaming is an online media company operating in the gaming space. They own over 100 websites, 7 professional Esports teams, 30 weekly shows and they put on gaming conferences in a non-covid world. Below is a graphic from EGLX’s website to illustrate all aspects of the company’s operations. They have shown 519% YoY revenue growth in 2020, and projected for 119% in 2021, and 23% in 2022 They are just working through the first three phases of their four step monetization plan which should help continue to bolster revenue numbers I do own a position in EGLX This is for educational purposes, not to be used as financial advice

Today we are looking at Kontrol Technologies Corp. a small cap Canadian technology firm that is engaged in smart building technology. Most recently Kontrol has announced its BioCloud technology, which can detect pathogens such as Covid-19 through the air filtration systems. This is the latest advancement in their smart building capabilities. We cover some risks associated with the company, potential successful outcomes and some valuation metrics. We conclude by issuing a potential strategy on how to play this stock over the next 6 months to a year. Full disclosure, I did initiate a position in the stock the week prior to this podcast. I began researching the company for the podcast, and upon findings decided it would be a worthwhile investment for myself, and did fit into what I am looking for in my portfolio. This podcast is intended for educational purposes only, this is not financial advice

Today I am reacting to the lead lag report paper written by Michael A. Gayed, about the linkage between lumber and gold and when to get aggressive vs defensive with your portfolio.  This paper was written in 2015 and updated in 2020. It was also the 2015 NAAIM Founders Award Winner I think there are some great insights in this paper, and something can be learned from the perspective of the retail investor. High level, the paper says when gold is outperforming lumber we get defensive, and when lumber is outperforming gold we get aggressive. I cover the key points made by the paper, then discuss how the information could be used for a retail investment portfolio, and how it can help shape your investment and savings patterns.  This is for educational purposes only. Not investment advice.

Quick update on some factors affecting the precious metals sector, and why it might be a good time to look at the space!

Another episode of the beginner investor series: We discuss three terms; strategic asset allocation, tactical asset allocation & core-satellite strategy This topic was brought on by the fact that there are now 5 times the amount of retail investors as there was just over a year ago. This is likely brought on by the covid drop, and quick recovery soon after. This has also led to many twitter personalities and trading groups popping up promising people to help them conquer the markets. I am issuing this episode as a reminder to all, 97% of traders do not beat the market and the vast majority of them do not make money. In times when money comes easy it is easy to lose sight of these facts, but it goes back to the old adage 'be fearful when people are greedy, and greedy when people are fearful'. I see a whole lot of greed on the internet these days. The strategic asset management and tactical asset management terms are simple to understand, and can help a new investor when trying to set up a portfolio. These are basic portfolio management and construction terms, and an understanding of these fundamentals can go a long way for a new investor.  The core-satellite strategy is a strategy that allows you to still participate in the exciting world of trading, and follow along with these twitter personalities without risking your retirement or your kid's education. Put simply, it is to keep your core portfolio diverse and well set up, while allowing yourself some 'floater funds' or 'satellites' to take pot shots at hot stocks you see on the internet. Best of both worlds Hope everyone enjoys this episode! 10minuteinvesting@gmail.com

Maxar Technologies has two major revenue streams; Space Infrastructure & Earth Intelligence Space Infrastructure is the product focused side of the business, and works with communications and observation satellites, space exploration crafts, on-orbit satellite servicing vehicles and robotics for space observations Earth Intelligence is focused on high resolution imaging, and mission ready geospatial intelligence. This is service oriented side of the business, and as with most service businesses, is much more profitable with roughly 65% gross margins compared to 14.7% on the product side of Maxar's business. Key reasons I like this company: - Systematic deleveraging. They have come from a 7.8x leverage ratio at end of 2019 to a 6.1x leverage ratio at the end of 2020, and in the early stages of 2021 have completed a share offering bringing their leverage ratio to 5.1x. Massive strides toward deleveraging - New management. Their new management team is responsible for the deleveraging, and they have been buying more shares in the company on the price dips. This gives me confidence they know they can successfully deleverage the company and start turning steady profits. With a launch of their new satellite fleet set for late 2021, I like that they are investing personally in the company now. - Touching on the new fleet topic, this next fleet of satellites is expected to triple their capacity for the service side of the business. As previously mentioned, the services side of the business is the profitable side with 65% gross margins. This should improve profitability and boost EBITDA in the future. **Opinions are my own. This is not financial advise, this is for educational and entertainment purposes** **all information sourced from public data**

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Kirkland Lake Gold is a great value play in the gold mining sector, with some absolutely wild looking ratios.  P/E 11.76 vs industry average of 26.54 Gross Profit Margin 72.81% vs industry average of 28.82% EBITDA Margin 68.22% vs industry average of 16.41% Net Income Margin 32.02% vs industry average of 4.97% The numbers here are more than solid, and while we are covering the topic of value plays I think Kirkland Lake Gold falls perfectly into that category. I am still bullish on precious metals, despite the downward trend since August. The 10-Year US Treasury yield expanding is the first signs of real inflation coming to the market, which might be the catalyst to start the run in precious metals and all commodities.  Just off these financials alone I can't see Kirkland Lake Gold selling off much more than they already have, they seem to be at a deep discount. Definitely worth adding to the watchlist at the very least. I am thinking will see some convergence to the average in the coming months or years. This company is 100% a set it and forget it type company that can anchor your portfolio for years. As always these opinions are my own, and are not investment advice but for educational purposes. Please seek professional advice before making investment decisions. 

The last three weeks have been not great for investors to say the least. There has been almost no safe space to hide, and I think you can tell from my voice and lack of enthusiasm in this episode it has been tough on me as well.  I wanted to touch on a few topics today, which is why the episode ran quiet long. First we get into the demolition that has been happening to growth stocks, and why diversifying and owning some commodities, value stock and even a little fixed income can help ease the pain when this is happening. Quick mention on my view on commodity stocks, including gold silver and oil, and why I like oil longer term. Oil prices are rising and these companies are so beaten up and forgotten about they have tremendous value in a risk-reward ratio point of view. Next I cover some basics of the 10 year US treasury yield, what it means and why it has such a major effect on stocks. Both growth and value. I know people have been hearing a lot about the 10-Yar yield but maybe do not fully understand why it is effecting stocks the way it is. Hopefully some questions gets answered there.  Lastly I go over a catalyst I want to keep my eyes on going forward that could trigger another market correction in April. Tax season. Less effected up hear n the great white north, hiding all our gains in our TFSA, but our friends down south might not be so lucky. For new investors, many of whom have seen significant gains, they have not had to allocate funds to pay the tax man yet and have a portfolio that is fully invested in the market. The selling that may come from them liquidating assets to pay the bill could be the next factor waiting to knock stocks. Here's to hoping we can get back to all time highs before that comes! As always my opinions are my own, and are not intended to be used as investment advice. Educational purposes only. Please do your own due diligence 

Update of my recent tweets, and stock buys. I comment on my recent tweets about the stocks I have been buying and talking about. SKLZ, MAXR, CCIV, AAPL and RAAC Beginner Investor Series: Taking a look at market cap vs. share price, and buying penny stocks or large market cap stocks. Some new investors feel they can't invest in larger companies because they can only afford one or two shares. I would much rather you own one or two shares of a great company than 10,000 shares of a terrible company. We need to be measuring our gains in percentages rather than dollars and cents. 10% on a large stock even if you own 1 shares is better than 2% on a small cap stock, or worse yet, a loss. Bigger companies are typically safer than penny stocks, and if you don't have a ton of cash to play with you're likely better off buying the larger companies for the safety!

Comparing two solar power companies. One big and one little. Solar Alliance is a penny stock that trades on the Canadian venture exchange, and has operations in USA. It has had a rapid price appreciation as of late, up 2300% I have my concerns with Solar Alliance as it has declining revenues, trades at 125x current revenues and has shown no material changes to justify the crazy recent price appreciation. I'm fairly new to the sector admittedly, but I don't see a real raw to this company. Canadian Solar, while a Canadian company, trades on the NASDAQ in USD. I like this option much better as it trades at a reasonable 15 P/E, and 1:1 price to revenue. It has established earnings and could look to profit from the recent administration change south of our border. I also like that management is consistently conservative with their guidance on earnings and revenue. They are not out here trying to pump the stock price with false promises.  Hope you enjoy the episode. Tweet me, email me or send me a message on Reddit! All links in the show bio!

A quick reminder to evaluate your investments rationally and to try and not get caught up in the euphoria of running share prices. If you aren't day trading, and don't have a defined exit strategy than exponential price appreciation might not be a good thing for you long term.  This podcast is a reminder of how to evaluate some risk and realize what you are paying for when investing in a company. I covert a couple basic examples of price to earnings and price to revenue examples and explain what it means in relation to what you pay per share price.  Also quickly comment on some macroeconomic data for Canada and the United States, with relation to the frothy market we are experiencing.

Bitcoin Miners are leveraged to the price of BTC, in the same way that gold miners are leveraged to the price of gold.  I refer to a lot of numbers across these 5 companies in this episode, so I have included  the numbers below to help listeners with a visual aid. All amounts are depicted in USD RIOT: Market Cap: $2.21B ; 40.25% gain today ; 842 ph/s mining power ; 820 BTCs inventory ; $2.62B price per 1000 ph/s mining power MARA: Market Cap: $3.01B ; 42.41% gain today ; 296 ph/s mining power ; 0 BTCs inventory ; $10.14B price per 1000 ph/s mining power BTBT: Market Cap: $1.23B ; 46.2% gain today ; 2245 ph/s mining power ; 122 BTCs inventory ; $0.55B price per 1000 ph/s mining power HIVE: Market Cap: $0.808B ; 7.16% gain today ; 326 ph/s mining power ; 140 BTCs inventory ; $2.48B price per 1000 ph/s mining power HUT: Market Cap: $0.577B ; 22.22% gain today ; 1031 ph/s mining power ; 3007 BTCs inventory ; $0.56B price per 1000 ph/s mining power **This is my own analysis and opinion and should not be taken as direct investment advice. Please see an investment professional before making any investment decisions, and please conduct your own due diligence**

Blackberry (BB ; BB.TO) For those of you laughing at me thinking of your Blackberry from 2010, Blackberry is no longer a cell phone company, but a software and cyber security company.  their QNX software is an operating system for electric vehicles, and is used by 19 of the top 25 EV makers and accounts for 61% of the EV market. The EV market was roughly $5B in 2018, and some estimates have it pegged near $17.77B by 2024. estimates from researchandmarket.com Blackberry IVY is their intelligent vehicle data platform, which will help to manage data and communication between vehicle owners, charging stations and the manufacturers. IVY is set to benefit from the pre-existing partnership Blackberry has established with their QNX system, which is in 175M EVs currently.  Blackberry also has a healthy patent portfolio, with recent sales to Huawei to increase cash and invest in their IVY and Blackberry SPARK projects. They are currently in litigation with Facebook over other patents, and the general sentiment on the litigations is that Blackberry is the favorite to come out successful. However, Facebook is a giant with near unlimited funds to spend on litigation so do not count your chickens before they hatch.  Full disclosure I do own some BB.TO stock. My price range for adding to my position would be near $10-12 Canadian. I would have interest anywhere under $13 CDN. This would be about $8-10 USD if you are trading the stock on the NYSE.  Zack's recently upped their price target on BB to $29, which I personally think is quite rich, but does show you the high end potential this stock could have if the right catalysts fall into place.  **All analysis is my own, and these are my own opinions. Please seek a financial professional before making any investment decisions**

Hello and welcome back everyone. After a short vacation I have returned to give my overview of everything that has transpired over the past week with the GME and AMC situation and Reddit taking down Melvin Capital and Citadel. No stock picks or anything like that, but I wanted to go into a little bit of what exactly happened over the past week, where we are now and what can we expect moving forward.  Hope everyone enjoys, as what has happened over the past week will be in finance textbooks across universities in 5 years time. It is pretty cool we got to live through it, and I hope I did a good job breaking it down for people that don't fully understand what was going on. It can be tough when the news, your timeline of memes and various opinions are all giving contradicting information, yet everyone is talking about the same thing.  As always let me know what you think Twitter: 10MinuteInvesting Reddit: u/10MinuteInvesting 10MinuteInvesting@gmail.com