Planet MicroCap Podcast | MicroCap Investing Strategies

My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor, and Jan Svenda, Senior Equity Analyst, at GeoInvesting. In today's episode, we discuss $TSSI and its YTD performance of more than 600% (as of today's recording) and why. We then break down their Tier One Quality MicroCap Index overall performance and why the GARP/Value bull market is just getting started. We discussed a number of stoc...

My guest on the show today is Sebastian Krog, Founder and Editor of Treasure Hunting Newsletter on Substack. We actually had met a few years ago at our conference in Vegas, the Planet MicroCap Showcase, where he made the long trip from Europe to join us. I invited him on the podcast because he's recently started his Substack, the Treasure Hunting Newsletter, and he's actively getting out there sha...

PANEL: “Planet MicroCap Podcast: LIVE” at the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VEGAS | April 30-May 2, 2024 Moderator: Robert Kraft, Planet MicroCap Twitter: https://twitter.com/BobbyKKraft Participants: Artem Fokin, Caro-Kann Capital Website: https://caro-kann-capital.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-fokin-1a5479/ Sam Namiri, Ridgewood Investments Website: https://ridgewoodinvestments.co...

There was so much that happened at the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VEGAS 2024, that I thought it would be fun to do a post-event debrief. Joining me were arguably the two busiest people at the event besides our staff, Maj Soueidan from GeoInvesting and Mathieu Martin from the Rivemont MicroCap Fund, who between them did 14 fireside chats with management teams, attended additional presentations on to...

My guest on the show today is Chris Abbott, CIO of 1035 Capital Management. As it states on the 1035 Capital Management website, "our passion is to uncover these opportunities [companies undergoing fundamental business improvements that should drive future stock returns] before the ramifications of a positive catalyst become evident to the majority of investors, a concept we call “front running th...

My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor, and Jan Svenda, Senior Equity Analyst, at GeoInvesting. In today's episode, we start off with the weekly breakdown of top gainers and decliners from the Tier One Quality MicroCap Index, and a quick look at TSS Inc., ticker $TSSI. Then, Maj, Jan and I spend some time breaking down all the companies that Maj will be doing a Q&A with...

My guest on the show today is Joe Lucosky, Managing Partner at Lucosky Brookman. You might take one look at this title and might not think this is for you; as an investor you might wonder why should you care whether a company decides to uplist, cross-list or even delist? What do these terms even mean? Why is the company wasting their time even considering any of these corporate actions? If you've...

My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor, and Jan Svenda, Senior Equity Analyst, at GeoInvesting. We're trying something out here at Planet MicroCap, where on a weekly or bi-monthly basis, Maj and Jan will be hopping on the show to discuss recent performance of their Tier One Quality MicroCap Index, as well as the latest and greatest they have been covering on the MS MicroCap...

My guest on the show today is Bryan Ganz, President and CEO of Byrna Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYRN). Byrna is a technology company specializing in the development, manufacture, and sale of innovative less-lethal personal security solutions. I had actually met Bryan and interviewed him when they were known as Security Devices International, and safe to say, the company has come a long way since....

My guest on the show today is Toffcap - he's a fund manager and Editor of the Toffcap Newsletter on Substack, and @ToffCap on Twitter/X. We discuss a whole host of topics derived from both his newsletter and his posts on social media, including: Toff's criteria, what his investable universe looks like, what's intriguing about cannabis, as well as his investing theses on both ADF Group and DNO. For...

My guest on the show today is Griffin Marie, Vice President of Business Development at SumZero. We've teamed up with SumZero for a couple fun initiatives for the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VEGAS 2024: the Allocators Roundtable Panel and the "Allocators Power Hour", where we'll have allocators on a panel discussing their mandates and what they are looking for amongst the pool of talented Small/Micro...

My guest on the show today is my friend and frequent guest, Fadi Diab, better known as @TheGladiatorHC on Twitter/X. It's been well over a year since he's been on the show, and we had a bunch of topics I wanted to get his take on, in particular, how the Australian MicroCap market has fared for the Gladiator in 2023 and their performance relative to North American microcaps. Fadi is the eternal spe...

My guest on the show today is Tamir Poleg, Chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage Inc. (NASDAQ: REAX). Real (NASDAQ: REAX) is a real estate experience company working to make life’s most complex transaction simple. The fast-growing company combines essential real estate, mortgage and closing services with powerful technology to deliver a single seamless end-to-end consumer experience, guided by tr...

My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor, and Jan Svenda, Senior Equity Analyst, at GeoInvesting. I welcomed back my friends, Maj and Jan, to discuss their latest venture, MS MicroCap Cliffnotes and their Tier One Quality MicroCap Index. As some of you may know, we run an index as well called the Planet MicroCap Index that we use for educational purposes only to better unders...

My guest on the show today is Brian Bares, Founder, Portfolio Manager, and Research Analyst at Bares Capital Management. I had the opportunity to meet Brian at Ian Cassel's MicroCapClub Leadership Summit last year in Chicago, where he participated in a Q&A with Connor Haley and Ian. Brian has an incredible background and vast amount of experience, not just investing in Small/MicroCaps, but als...

My guest on the show today is Sebastien Mailhot, CEO of D-BOX Technologies Inc. (TSX: DBO). D-BOX creates realistic, immersive entertainment experiences by moving the body and sparking the imagination through effects: motion, vibration and texture. D-BOX has collaborated with some of the best companies in the world to deliver new ways to enhance great stories. Whether it’s movies, video games, mus...

My guest on the show today is Francois Roberge, President and CEO of LSL Pharma Group (TSX-V: LSL). LSL Pharma Group is a Canadian integrated pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacturing and distribution of high-quality natural health products and dietary supplements in solid dosage forms, as well as high quality sterile ophthalmic pharmaceutical products, according to the...

My guest on the show today is Erik Sloane, Global Head of Company Listings for Cboe Global Markets (CBOE on CBOE) and Chief Revenue Officer for Cboe Canada. On June 2, 2023, Cboe announced the launch of Cboe Global Listings, the first-of-its-kind, global listing network facilitating worldwide access to capital and secondary liquidity for companies and ETFs. Cboe recently acquired the NEO Exchange,...

My guest on the show today is Jim Rakievich, President & CEO of McCoy Global (TSX: MCB). McCoy Global Inc. is a product and service provider for the international oil and gas sector with new digital technology solutions. McCoy’s series of Smart products seeks to increase efficiency, wellbore integrity and safety by eliminating human error and guaranteeing consistency and repeatability of casin...

My guest on the show today is Bill Chen, Managing Partner at Rhizome Partners. I met Bill at the MicroCapClub Leadership Summit back in October and was stoked to have him on the pod to chat real estate with him. I haven't covered publicly-traded real estate, or real estate in general, that much and thought it was time to change that up. Bill did the pod circuit last year, and he clearly has a hand...

My guest on the show today is Josh Young, Founder and Portfolio Manager at Bison Interests. We last chatted on the podcast back in July 2023, so figured it was time for our semi-annual conversation on energy markets. It was a rough second half of 2023 for Oil & Gas, and Josh provides his post-mortem on what happened - plus, how 2024 is setting up when considering all the macro news on the hori...

My guest on the show today is Nathan Mazurek, Chairman and CEO of Pioneer Power Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPSI). Pioneer Power Solutions, Inc. is a leader in the design, manufacture, integration, refurbishment, service and distribution of electric power systems, distributed energy resources, power generation equipment and mobile EV charging solutions for applications in the utility, industrial and...

My guest on the show today is James (Jeb) Besser, CEO of Modular Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: MODD). Modular Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq:MODD) is a development-stage medical device company that is working towards launching the next generation of insulin delivery technology. Using its patented technologies, the company seeks to eliminate the tradeoff between complexity and efficacy, thereby making top quality...

My guest on the show today is Sam Namiri, Partner and Portfolio Manager at Ridgewood Investments. Today's conversation is Sam and I catching up on the year that was in 2023, and the year ahead in 2024. He's a frequent guest on the show, and was one of my first friends when I started in this business all the way back in 2011. I always enjoy hearing his perspective on the MicroCap markets as he's on...

My guest on the show today is Caitlin Cook, better known as @DeadCaitBounce on Twitter/X, Head of Marketing and Communications at Hxro Network. This is a special edition pod because we had some breaking news - on Wednesday, January 10, 2024, the SEC approved the listing and trading of a number of spot bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) shares. Caitlin is my go-to person for all things crypto, w...