Planet MicroCap Podcast | MicroCap Investing Strategies

My guest on the show today is Jason Kopcak, President, CEO and Director of Altisource Asset Management (NYSE American: AAMC). Altisource Asset Management Corporation (“AAMC”) is a leading boutique alternative asset manager that is focused on building platforms in the multi-trillion dollar alternative asset space. The company has built several businesses that originate and source bespoke credit sec...

My guest on the show today is Vijar Kohli, Co-Founder of Golden Door Asset Management, and is a Keynote Speaker at our upcoming conference, the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VEGAS. He'll be speaking on Wednesday, April 26 at 12:30pm in Track 1 following Chris Tessin's presentation. We titled Vijar's presentation in Vegas, "MicroCaps vs. Failed Startups" - the idea for which came from all these failed...

My guest on the show today is Allan Grafman, CEO of IDW Media Holdings (NYSE American: IDW). IDW (NYSE American: IDW) is an integrated media company providing compelling stories and characters for global audiences. The IDW Publishing and IDW Entertainment businesses acquire IP for holistic franchise development across comics and graphic novels, television and other entertainment platforms and leve...

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 fi...

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...

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 wante...

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 enter...

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 confe...

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...

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 f...

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...

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...

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.   Invente...

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 a...

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 priva...

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...

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...

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,...

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 sh...

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 exten...

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 famil...

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 ow...

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...

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...

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...