Planet Microcap Podcast | Microcap Investing Strategies

My guest on the show today is Denver Smith, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Carlson Ridge Capital. We've done a number of episodes over the years on Activist Investing, and I'd say all the investors that end up going activist, it's a reluctant endeavour; they basically, with all the circumstances happening in that particular company, made a conscious decision doing a time and cost analysis that it was a necessary step. But the biggest difference between most activist investors we've had on, or rather, investors that have gone active, is that they wouldn't necessarily describe themselves as activist investors; it was all situational. While becoming an activist investor was initially unintentional with my guest today, Denver Smith, he is now most certainly intentional when the circumstances are ripe. And we dive into what a ripe situation looks like. And for full disclosure, we discussed a number of companies during today's podcast, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information

My guest on the show today is with Devin LaSarre, Founder & Editor of Invariant. I've been following Devin for a while on social media, and invited him on to better understand his overall investing philosophy, and then specifically dig into an industry / idea a bit further. This episode I would say falls into the "ways of seeing" bucket, meaning, every once in a while I have a conversation on here with someone that has a completely different way they look at investing that I find very unique. In this case, Devin's focus on finding very "unclean" stories and doing the work to clean it up struck a chord that I wanted to understand further. I had a blast jamming on this concept, and then diving further on the Nicotine industry and his thesis on Haypp Group. And for full disclosure, we discussed a number of companies during today's podcast, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about Invariant, please visit: https://invariant.substack.com/ You can Follow Devin LaSarre on Twitter/X: https

My guest on the show today is Gavin Burnett, CEO of Locafy (NASDAQ: LCFY). Locafy is a software-as-a-service technology company specializing in local search engine marketing. Founded in 2009, Locafy's mission is to revolutionize the US$700 billion SEO sector.   SEO, also known as Search Engine Optimization, is phrase you have probably heard a million times, and you probably couldn't define exactly what it is. You're not alone. And the main reason being is that it's a sector that is evolving so quickly that it's difficult to keep up. I invited on Gavin today because, since I last interviewed him back in February 2023, the company has had it's own evolution in tackling this both simple and complex problem every company must figure out: how do people find our business on the internet. We discuss this, and:  Locafy's suite of solutions The company's business strategy What the competitive landscape looks like Progress towards profitability; balancing growth vs. focus on profitability, and their 3-5 year vision f

My guest on the show today is Kyle Grieve, Host of We Study Billionaires Podcast on the Investor's Podcast Network. I've been a fan from afar and had the chance to hang with Kyle at our conference in Vancouver last year. We had a blast and thought we should bring that energy to the podcast. I wanted to learn more about his background and how he got hooked into our MicroCap world here. We dove deeper into his thoughts on the differences between a quality business and quality investment, his criteria for an ideal investment and we close with lessons learned that came to his mind from his interviews on the We Host Billionaires podcast. And for full disclosure, we discussed a number of companies during today's podcast, I am not a shareholder in any of them.   For more information about We Study Billionaires, please visit: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/we-study-billionaires/   You can Follow Kyle Grieve on Twitter/X: https://x.com/IrrationalMrkts    We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with

My guest on the show today is Adam Wilk, Founder and Portfolio Manager at Greystone Capital Management. I invited Adam back on to discuss an article he wrote back in August 2024 to explore the idea of investors/shareholders finding companies, in other words, delving deeper into a statement made famous by Buffett, "companies ultimately end up with the shareholders they deserve." There's many different ways to think about this concept - Adam and I do our best to cover them all. I thought it was particularly interesting for why Adam even wrote the article was inspired by potential LPs and other investors asking him why won't this company stay cheap forever; I would've thought for sure this article was inspired by management teams asking him about this topic. And for full disclosure, we discussed a number of companies during today's podcast, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about Greystone Capital Management, please visit: https://www.greystonevalue.com/ You can Follow Adam Wilk on Twit

My guest on the show today is Whit Huguley, Fund Manager at River Oaks Capital. I've known Whit for a few years now, first having met him at one of my own conferences in Vegas, and have gotten to know and appreciate Whit's investing style. He launched his Fund, River Oaks Capital, about 5 years ago now, and while he's in the middle of writing his annual letter, he graciously jumped on the pod to talk more about what he's learned from running a MicroCap fund thus far. And for full disclosure, we discussed a number of companies during today's podcast, I am not a shareholder in any of them.   For more information about River Oaks Capital, please visit: https://www.riveroaks-capital.com/  You can Follow Whit Huguley on Twitter/X: https://x.com/Whit_Huguley    We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with MicroCapClub for our full slate of investor conferences in 2025. Ian Cassel and his team at MicroCapClub have not only built and fostered the best community of MicroCap investors, but it's arguably

My guest on the show today is Conor Maguire, Founder and Editor of the Value Situations Newsletter on Substack. I've always enjoyed Conor's appearances on Yet Another Value Podcast pitching individual ideas, and invited him on here to share more about his background, fundamental investing philosophy, what an ideal investment looks like to him, investing framework, and more. Special situations is always fun to talk about, in my opinion, and some of my favorite conversations are had when discussing the topic. This one with Conor fits that bill in spades. And for full disclosure, we discussed a number of companies during today's podcast, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about the Value Situations Newsletter, please visit: https://valuesits.substack.com/  You can Follow Conor Maguire on Twitter/X: https://x.com/ValueSituations We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with MicroCapClub for our full slate of investor conferences in 2025. Ian Cassel and his team at MicroCapClu

My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor at GeoInvesting. 2024 is in the books, and like every good podcaster, we had to do our version of a year-in-review, and in the MicroCap world, there's no shortage of things to cover. So much so, this might be Maj and I's longest pod ever - an hour and 40 minutes worth of mostly what I think we do best, jam session on MicroCap stocks and investing. Maj absolutely cooks on this episode, and it's always fun to watch. We dissect defining quality, round trips, unexpected winners, information arbitrage, growth capital, how diversification can allow you to concentrate, and much more. We discussed a number of stocks during our interview today, I am not a shareholder in any of them, and Maj also may or may not own companies that comprise their Tier One Quality MicroCap Index, please see MS MicroCaps and GeoInvesting for full disclosure.   For more information about MS MicroCap Cliffnotes, please visit: https://mscliffnotes.substack.com/ For more informati

My guest on the show today is Roger Fan, Founder and CIO of RF Capital Management. Firstly, shout out to Chris Abbott from 1035 Capital for the introduction. Roger runs a long-biased investment firm in LA that invests primarily in equities, and focuses on nanocaps and special situations. Their objective is to compound at 15-20%+ over the long term with a concentrated portfolio and minimal/no leverage or shorting. I invited Roger on to learn more about his strategy and how he intends to achieve these returns. Roger mentioned a number of names during the interview today and for full disclosure, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about RF Capital Management, please visit: https://www.rfcapitalmanagement.com/ You can Follow Roger Fan on Twitter/X @rgrfan: https://x.com/rgrfan We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with MicroCapClub for our full slate of investor conferences in 2025. Ian Cassel and his team at MicroCapClub have not only built and fostered the best community

My guest on the show today is Deiya Pernas, Co-Founder and Analyst at Pernas Research. Growth, runway for growth, greenfield opportunities, current market penetration, competitive landscape: these are all concepts we need to think about when looking at MicroCaps, and we've talked at length on this show about. The idea, or the ability, to conceptualize the future for any given company is a skill I think we all wish we had mastered (then we'd all be extremely wealthy), and yet, is what makes investing in Small, MicroCaps so damn fun. Deiya and his team at Pernas Research focus heavily on companies where their future is brighter than their current state, in other words, how the conceptualization of their futures are different from market perception. We dig into this idea today, and provide a few examples to illustrate what Deiya means. Deiya mentioned a number of names during the interview today and for full disclosure, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about Pernas Research, please vis

My guest on the show today is Colin King, Partner at Circle City Capital Group, Inc., and known as @valuedontlie on Twitter/X. I think we've all seen those memes and videos of folks who left their amazing job at Goldman Sacks to buy multiple small businesses, then of course, if you subscribe to their newsletter they'll show you how they did it. All jokes aside, it's a strategy that has worked time and again for many folks out there, however, buying and operating small private businesses is not as easy as social media would make you think, goes without saying. I invited on Colin to talk about his journey to launching and running this strategy at Circle City Capital Group. Colin mentioned a number of names during the interview today and for full disclosure, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about Circle City Capital Group, Inc., please visit: https://www.circlecitycapitalgroup.com/ You can Follow Colin King on Twitter/X @valuedontlie: https://x.com/valuedontlie We're excited to announc

My guest on the show today is Tristan Waine, better known as @hurdle_rate on Twitter/X and Editor, Author of the Hurdle Rate newsletter on Substack. We've talked many times here about the circle of competence, investing in what you know, looking at companies that produce goods or services that you actually consume, a style of investing, or more specifically, idea generation that Peter Lynch made famous. In our conversation today, Tristan and I talk extensively about this concept as it pertains to his investing style and philosophy. Specifically, we thought we could up the boring business ante, by talking about the sexiest businesses alive: accounting and document management software. In all seriousness, we have a great time, and Tristan provides some valuable insight on the topic of investing in what you know. Tristan mentioned a number of names during the interview today and for full disclosure, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about the Hurdle Rate newsletter on Substack, please v

My guest on the show today is Leon, better known as @mavix_leon on Twitter/X, and writer/editor of Underfollowed Stocks Newsletter on Substack. As his publication indicates, Leon is all about finding underfollowed investing opportunities with little to no institutional following, a natural fit for our show here. I invited him on to better understand his approach here, plus: European Small/MicroCaps, disassociating from FOMO and his thesis on Shelly Group $SLYG. Leon mentioned a number of names during the interview today and for full disclosure, I am not a shareholder in any of them.  For more information about Underfollowed Stocks newsletter, please visit: https://underfollowedstocks.substack.com/ You can Follow @mavix_leon on Twitter/X here: https://x.com/mavix_leon We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with MicroCapClub for our full slate of investor conferences in 2025. Ian Cassel and his team at MicroCapClub have not only built and fostered the best community of MicroCap investors, but it'

My guest on the show today is Dylan Marrello, better known as @ragingbullcap on Twitter/X. I've been following Dylan for a while now and wanted to invite him on to learn more about investing strategy, philosophy, and most interestingly, what investing themes he's looking at right now. As a natural contrarian, we jammed on a bunch of these ideas, including: counter cyclicality, offshore oil drilling, commercial real estate, coal, buying scarce assets, inflation protection, and more! We also talk at length about his largest position, Cipher Pharmaceuticals. Dylan mentioned a number of names during the interview today and for full disclosure, I am not a shareholder in any of them. For more information about Raging Bull Investments Substack, please visit: https://ragingbullinvestments.substack.com/ You can Follow Dylan on Twitter/X @ragingbullcap: https://x.com/ragingbullcap We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with MicroCapClub for our full slate of investor conferences in 2025. Ian Cassel and h

My guest on the show today is Paul Cerro, CIO of Cedar Grove Capital Management. Paul was recently on Andrew Walker's Yet Another Value Podcast having a conversation about Red Cat Holdings $RCAT - a company we actually interviewed, now way back in the day, in 2019 when they were still on the Pink Sheets. He did an awesome job on the show, and invited him on today to learn more about his investing philosophy, strategy and why it's not necessarily bottom fishing when looking at MicroCaps. For more information about Paul Cerro and Cedar Grove Capital Management, please visit: https://www.cedargrovecm.com/ We're excited to announce that we'll be partnering up with MicroCapClub for our full slate of investor conferences in 2025. Ian Cassel and his team at MicroCapClub have not only built and fostered the best community of MicroCap investors, but it's arguably one of the best investing communities, period. We couldn't be more thrilled to leverage our expertise in curating and hosting large scale MicroCap conference

My guest on the show today is Nick Blitterswyk, CEO of UGE International. On May 29, 2024, UGE announced an arrangement agreement for going private transaction with NOVA Infrastructure Fund for an all-cash consideration of C$2.00 per common share, a 270% premium to the closing price of the common shares on May 28, 2024. The company officially closed the planned take-private transaction on August 15, 2024. Today's interview has a few factors at play here: 1. We've done quite a few interviews recently here, i.e., with Mathieu Martin and Paul Andreola, about how M&A has been hot, particularly in Canada, for the last 12-18 months, with no signs of slowing down. 2. I've known Nick now for almost 10 years, having first interviewed him back in 2015, and have covered the UGE journey from beginning to now conclusion of their life as a public company. So, I wanted to share with you all a conversation about Nick's experience as a MicroCap public company CEO, what it means to run a MicroCap public company, what happe

My guests on the show today is Eddie Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of kneat.com, inc. (TSX: KSI) (OTCQX: KSIOF). Kneat Solutions provides companies in highly regulated industries with validation and compliance through its digital validation platform Kneat Gx. Kneat Gx is a digital validation platform that enables highly regulated companies to manage any validation discipline from end-to-end. I invited on Eddie to learn more about: History of kneat + how and why they developed their validation platform Kneat Gx Problems that Kneat Gx is solving, specifically for the life sciences industry  What "validation" means, and why highly regulated industries need to have high quality solutions to meet their validation requirements What the competitive landscape looks like Progress towards profitability; balancing growth vs. focus on profitability, and their 3-5 year vision for the company For more information about kneat.com, please visit: https://investors.kneat.com/ This podcast was recorded and is being made available

My guest on the show today is Jason Buck, CIO of Mutiny Funds. I met Jason at Ian Cassel's MicroCapClub Leadership Summit in Idaho in a classic random, sitting in the back of the presentation conversation, happened to be sitting next to each other, reason why we go to these events-type interaction that ultimately leads to a podcast invite. We cover a ton, but mostly digging into Jason's background and how it inspired the best named investing strategy out there, the Cockroach Strategy. For more information about Mutiny Funds, please visit: https://mutinyfund.com/ To attend our next investor conference, the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VANCOUVER in association with Small Cap Discoveries, taking place at the Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver on September 25-26, 2024, please register here: https://planetmicrocapshowcase.com/signup Planet MicroCap Podcast is on YouTube! All archived episodes and each new episode will be posted on the Planet MicroCap YouTube channel. I’ve provided the link in the description if you’d like

My guest on the show today is Paul Andreola, Founder & Editor of Small Cap Discoveries. Yes, we are shamelessly marketing our upcoming event in Vancouver. Not afraid to admit it. But, we kept it short and sweet. We're serving up about 20 minutes of why Canadian markets may have opportunities galore, recent acquisitions and quick previews on a few companies that will be presenting.  For more information about Small Cap Discoveries, please visit: https://smallcapdiscoveries.com/ To attend our next investor conference, the Planet MicroCap Showcase: VANCOUVER in association with Small Cap Discoveries, taking place at the Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver on September 25-26, 2024, please register here: https://planetmicrocapshowcase.com/signup Planet MicroCap Podcast is on YouTube! All archived episodes and each new episode will be posted on the Planet MicroCap YouTube channel. I’ve provided the link in the description if you’d like to subscribe. You’ll also get the chance to watch all our Video Interviews with ma

My guest on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor at GeoInvesting. We close out what feels like the shortest summer ever to wrap on a few topics, including: MicroCap performance for July and August, $TSSI performance, aerospace, fintwit, growth capital for quality companies and more! We discussed a number of stocks during our interview today, Maj also may or may not own companies that comprise his Tier One Quality MicroCap Index, please see MS MicroCaps and Geoinvesting for full disclosure.  For more information about MS MicroCap Cliffnotes, please visit: https://mscliffnotes.substack.com/ For more information about GeoInvesting, please visit: https://geoinvesting.com/ Planet MicroCap Podcast is on YouTube! All archived episodes and each new episode will be posted on the Planet MicroCap YouTube channel. I’ve provided the link in the description if you’d like to subscribe. You’ll also get the chance to watch all our Video Interviews with management teams, educational panels from the conference, as