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@PaulAndreola

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Father, husband, avid traveler, microcap investor. CEO of NameSilo Tech, $URL.C, SmallCap Discoveries @smallcapdisc . Director of $AEP.V, $TTZ.V & $DBC.V

Vancouver, Canada
Joined April 2012
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@PaulAndreola
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4 years
I have read 100's of books on investing. A small number of them really stand out and, along with my experiences, have had a huge impact and helped me design my investing strategy over the years. I'm often asked what books I recommend. Here are a few and why.
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2 years
Wanna make a list of microcaps that are growing revenues by double digits and trading at single digit PE ratios?
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@PaulAndreola
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8 months
Everyone likes to talk about homes prices in Canada. Here's an interesting stat. In 2004 a Big Mac in Canada cost you roughly $2.33 while the average Canadian home price was $245,149. Today a Big Mac will cost you $7.59 up 226% while the average home price was $646,134 in
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@PaulAndreola
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4 years
It only takes one stock to change your financial life. Learn how to find it and learn how to hold it.
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2 years
Microcaps are fine but nanocaps are the ticket to wealth; you just have to be poor enough to buy them.
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10 months
One of the most bullish signals on the planet is a company CFO buying shares in their company...
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22 days
This is me today because my portfolio is almost all Canadian microcaps and none of my stocks are down because it's a trading holiday here.
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2 years
If you could buy and hold (for 5 years) only one microcap stock trading below $100 million market cap what would it be and why? (I've stolen your idea @marketplunger1 )
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4 years
Thank God for Canada - Both my parents immigrated from Italy almost 60 years ago. I thank them regularly, and more recently, for making that decision and giving me the blessed life I have in this country. Canada has its flaws but there is no place I'd rather call home!
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2 years
WTI is back above $100. Who bought the energy dip?
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2 years
Who would be interested in listening if we did a Twitter Spaces on Canadian microcaps? And when should we do it?
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7 years
If you're not prepared to be bored by the stocks you own you're not really prepared to make big money in the markets
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7 months
There's more to multi-baggers than just a growing company. A big part of a share price going up by a lot has to do with multiple expansion. Here's an article we wrote a few years ago on the subject - Understanding Multiple Expansion
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10 months
Maybe I should put together a bit of a list of boring, illiquid and profitable little microcaps. You know, the kind that everyone seems to warn you about....
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Paul Andreola
4 years
None of my 10+ baggers ever started out as swans, they all were some form of ugly ducklings. Learn to love microcaps with fixable problems.
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Paul Andreola
3 years
To make big money investing you have to be prepared to buy/own stocks that aren't popular. Popular stocks are rarely the best investments.
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Paul Andreola
4 years
Buying multi-baggers is easy. Holding on to them is hard.
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7 months
Don’t settle to double your money, look for the next 10-50-100 bagger. A Strategy to Find The Next Multi-bagger
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3 months
What's your favorite sub $50 million market cap company that is profitable and growing?
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3 years
It only takes one stock to change your financial life. Learn how to find it and learn how to hold it.
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2 years
The P/E ratio for the Russell 2000 (including only companies with positive earnings) is back to the 2020 lows, and below 10x
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4 years
It only takes one stock to change your financial life. Learn how to find it and learn how to hold it
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3 years
“In investing, What is comfortable is rarely profitable,” great words by Robert Arnott
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2 years
My Uber driver just suggested I should be buying US 2-year treasury notes.....
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Paul Andreola
11 months
To benefit from multi-bagger microcaps you need: The vision to find them, the courage to buy them, and the patience to hold them
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@PaulAndreola
Paul Andreola
5 years
Now they are even coming out with warning labels on smallcap stocks. That explains the low interest in so many of my stocks.
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8 months
We wrote this a few years ago so some of the data is a bit dated. Let me know what you think. The Art of the Roll-up The Art of the Roll-up: 7 Keys to Success
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7 months
Ok, let's take the good karma approach again. It's worked very well for everyone the last 3 times we've done it. If you're interested in knowing the name of our latest "fat pitch" make a small donation to my favourite charity . And if you want to take it a
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Paul Andreola
7 months
We think we've found another fat pitch. Much like when we found $TMG.V at $0.125 in September.
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2 years
What's your biggest microcap stock position and why?
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Paul Andreola
1 year
If you could buy just one sub $100 million microcap and had to hold it 5 years. What would it be and why?
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Paul Andreola
4 years
My cash position as a % of my portfolio is rapidly increasing and I haven't even sold anything.....
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9 months
"Holding losers is easier than holding winners. Why? Because losers always look cheap." Ian Cassel
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Paul Andreola
9 months
Microcaps are fine but nanocaps are the ticket to wealth; you just have to be poor enough to buy them.
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Paul Andreola
4 years
Extremely proud, once again, of our team. Preclinical study using a SARS-CoV-2 hamster model, treatment with IPA’s TATX-03 resulted in complete clearance of detectable virus from lungs and throat of SARS-CoV-2 infected animals. $IPA $IPA.V
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Paul Andreola
1 year
I don't recall a time in my career where I have seen as many mispriced nanocaps as I'm seeing today. I saw deeper value late last year but now I'm seeing a larger number of good looking opportunities.
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10 months
Many microcap investors don't fully understand that dilution risk is one of the biggest risks you face as an investor. Choose your investments wisely!
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Paul Andreola
4 years
How nervous should I be about the markets when my pizza delivery guy is giving me stock tips?
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Paul Andreola
2 months
Understanding Insider Activity (Thread)
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Paul Andreola
4 years
So many investors seems to think they need to find 2 or 3 good investments per week. 2 or 3 great investments per year is more than good enough. Wait for your fat pitch.
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2 years
If you want to benefit from a multi bagger you have to be able to not sell it when it doubles...
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8 months
@ronmortgageguy There's a lot wrong with home prices in Canada Ron. I'm just not seeing enough outrage over the price of Big Macs. Priorities!
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2 years
"In small stocks liquidity always increases with price. Don't worry about illiquidity, worry about being right." @iancassel
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7 months
The State of the Canadian Public Venture Market - We all know how bad the markets have been the past two, to three years. The TSX venture index clearly puts it in context: Thread...
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9 months
From Stifel Research - Size Matters; It's Time to Buy Canadian Small Caps Summary After Underperforming for the better part of the past decade, Canadian Small Cap Equities are literally begging to be bought. The Value is There, The Cycle Returns are There and the Seasonality is
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3 years
What microcaps have been doing to me since January....
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4 years
Help me to build a list of Canadian companies that are likely to uplist to Nasdaq?
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5 months
I don't think most investors are aware of how much institutional capital is currently sitting outside the Canadian microcap space and how little of it is necessary to bring about a big bull market in microcaps.
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4 months
Weird how often I do better when I average up than when I average down....
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Paul Andreola
2 years
My take: quality microcaps are under-owned, quality large caps are over-owned
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4 years
In my experience I've found that there are only about 5% of microcaps that are invest-able. Almost 100% however are trade-able. Know what you own.
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4 years
Ok, another question for everyone. Who uses stock screening software and what software/service would you recommend?
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4 years
Favorite Canadian microcap and why? Symbol and 1-3 word answers only!
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Paul Andreola
11 months
To all SEDAR+ users: We have a call with SEDAR this week to voice our complaints about the new website. What do you want to see improved/changed? We'll add your comments to our list of suggested changes.
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8 months
We are currently doing our year end review of all Canadian listed companies and have taken the 2700 listed companies down to a current list of 97. Let's see which companies survive our next round of screening. Stay tuned....
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This year, in August, we found what we believe is a "Fat Pitch". It was a company that we had been following for years. Up until the pandemic they were growing revenues nicely and had just turned profitable. The pandemic hurt the company and revenues and earnings suffered.
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1 year
Which microcap companies are trying to roll up a boring, fragmented industry?
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Paul Andreola
4 years
$IPA $IPA.V
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Paul Andreola
1 year
I was fortunate to have had $XPEL be the first company I profiled on MicroCapClub but even more fortunate for what I've learned there and for the friends I've made along the way.
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MicroCapClub
1 year
An epic stock pick - perhaps one of the best of all time - as in ever by @PaulAndreola $XPEL + 18,717% in 10 years Our members turn over the rocks, join us
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Call me crazy but I think we are about to enter an epic bull market for microcaps
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Paul Andreola
10 months
The best investors I know have an uncanny ability to stay patient while a stock they own trades sideways for an extended period of time.
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8 months
Death by Dilution Thread...
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2 years
How many investors track insider buying/selling as part of their due diligence on a company?
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4 years
This is what a life changing 100 bagger looks like. Can you stomach the volatility to gain the returns? $XPEL
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1 year
What's your best Canadian microcap idea right now and why?
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9 months
Did you know that 87% of all global equities that went up 1000% or more over the past ten years were microcaps?
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Paul Andreola
2 years
Just bought shares in another microcap that trades at a single digit PE, grew revenues by over 30% last quarter and pays a dividend. Stock trades just above book value. There continues to be cheap stuff in the Canadian microcap space.
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8 months
It's amazing that, if you ask nicely and are grateful, how many people in the microcap space are willing to help others out. I've met a lot of great human beings by reaching out and just asking nicely.
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11 months
This is why I am a microcap investor
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From @iancassel at the Summit 📺
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Article - Navigating the Microcap Space Over the last several years, we have continued to generate considerable returns in our portfolio of stocks, and this success is thanks to an accumulation of wisdom—through constant, hands-on learning and studying the successes of those who
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What's your favorite cheap (<$50 million MC) profitable Canadian microcap?
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1 year
Who out there is crazy enough to buy microcaps?
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4 years
Ok. I'm looking for recommendations for the best microcap investing podcasts. Who knows the microcap space out there?
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4 years
Training for microcap investing
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Paul Andreola
4 years
How to Make Money in Stocks - William J. O'Neill - Game changer for me. Bulk of my investing system based on what I learned from this book. Building a stock selection system. Basic fundamentals, technical tools, screening, momentum and valuing growth.
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If you are willing to do the work and you're disciplined and able to tame your emotions, microcaps will make you wealthy. Most investors won't.
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Me getting ready for opening bell of the Canadian markets tomorrow
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4 years
Here's an old article we wrote but it's still very relevant today. Why Share Structure Tells You More About A Company Than You Realize
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2 years
I love profitable and growing Canadian nanocaps. Which ones do I need to look at?
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2 years
I'm putting together a list of Canadian microcaps (sub $100 million market cap) that pay dividends. Any names?
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4 years
The US president has been treated with an antibody cocktail therapy. This should be evidence that this is considered the lead form of therapy available at this time. $IPA.V $IPATF
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The very best investors I know are extremely good at one key thing..... waiting
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1 year
Who are the best microcap investors that I'm probably not paying enough attention to?
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4 months
I wonder which Canadian nanocap he could be referring to....
@CNBC
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Warren Buffett hinted that Berkshire Hathaway was evaluating a possible investment opportunity north of the border. “We do not feel uncomfortable in any way shape or form putting our money into Canada. In fact, we’re actually looking at one thing now,” Buffett said. Watch the
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9 months
I'm slmost finished reading this book. Any other books on investing you'd recommend? What's on your must read list?
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5 years
Most institutional investors are more restricted by market cap then they are by fundamentals. They can't buy small companies but they can buy large companies with poor metrics. Think about that...
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2 years
Many microcap investors believe being "early" on a potential multi bagger means buying before the company turns profitable. I'm hear to tell you that is far from the case. Most of my multi baggers were found well after they turned profitable.
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8 months
In 280 characters or less....What's your favorite microcap and why? Bonus points if it's Canadian
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9 months
Education is important but investing in microcaps is importanter.
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4 years
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham - Foundational fundamental analysis. The bedrock of understanding value in investing
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Nvidia’s now worth as much as the entire Chinese stock market
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5 months
Here's an article we wrote in August of last year.... The Makings of a Ten-Bagger
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This here is potential life changing financial returns. This is why I play in the microcap sandbox... $DRX.T
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6 years
Worst performing index YTD? Turkey? Greece? China? Nope...the TSXV. Down 24.3%. Looking for treasure in the rubble...
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"You can borrow someone else’s stock ideas but you can’t borrow their conviction. True conviction can only be obtained by trusting your own research over that of others." @iancassel
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6 years
I find that the best time to buy a microcap stock isn't when there is blood in the streets but rather when there is no one in the streets.
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4 years
Dilution risk is probably one of the least understood risks in microcap investing. Does a company have the capital market skills to properly finance their business?
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Paul Andreola
4 years
$IPA.V $IPATF - Great job Jennifer
@BloombergTV
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4 years
ImmunoPrecise CEO Jennifer Bath tells @emilychangtv how the company's antibody cocktail may be the most effective treatment against Covid-19
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Paul Andreola
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The longer I've been doing this the more I come to understand this.
@iancassel
Ian Cassel
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You get 1-2 great opportunities every few years. The rest of the time is spent wondering if you will ever get another great opportunity again and convincing yourself to own mediocre opportunities while you wait. Mediocrity is the price you pay for impatience.
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Many microcaps are cheap
@bkaellner
Brad Kaellner
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Another thought-provoking newsletter from Donville Kent's ROE Reporter... "US small caps have hit a 22-year low relative to large caps"
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