Agoracom Blog Home

Archive for the ‘AGORACOM Small-Cap TV’ Category

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Firestone Ventures Joins AGORACOM 100 With NI 43-101: 330 Million Pounds of Zinc, 114 Million Pounds of Lead and 978,000 Ounces of Silver Defined to Date

Posted by AGORACOM at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Fv

I am pleased to announce that  Firestone Ventures (FV: TSX) is the newest member of The AGORACOM 100.  With NI 43-101: 330 Million Pounds of Zinc, 114 Million Pounds of Lead and 978,000 Ounces of Silver Defined to Date, Firestone is definetly AGORACOM 100 material.

Firestone Ventures Inc. is exploring and advancing its road-accessible Torlon Hill zinc-lead-silver project in Guatemala, Central America. Since early 2006, 8,400 metres of drilling in 101 holes has identified mineral resources totalling 330 million pounds of zinc, 114 million pounds of lead and 978,000 ounces of silver. The Torlon Hill deposit is on or near-surface and is open for expansion.

In late 2008 and during 2009, Firestone completed additional land acquisitions, data compilation and re-interpretation of historic data, mapping, prospecting, and soil sampling. Fieldcrews are currently conducting regional exploration and zinc occurrence evaluation in preparation for drilling in early 2010. The company plans to expand on the resource defined at Torlon Hill in addition to drilling additional zinc targets in the regional carbonate belt.

As always, assume I am horribly conflicted by the fact Firestone is now a client of AGORACOM and do your own due diligence.  Here are some of the things we like about the company:

Exploring The Torlon Hill Zinc Project In Guatemala

  • Artisanal mining and smelting of lead for over 300 centuries; zinc potential of property had never been tested.
  • Torlon Hill is a direct replacement zinc-lead-silver deposit on the boundary between two major tectonic plates.
  • Deposit is almost completely oxidized to smithsonite (zinc carbonate) with remnant galena.
  • Road accessible, 100% owned by Firestone Ventures Inc.
  • First ever drill program started in early 2006.
  • 8400 m drilled to date in 101 drill holes, deposit is open to expansion.
  • High-grade zinc mineralization is exposed on surface and is near-surface in drill holes.
  • 330 million pounds of zinc, 114 million pounds of lead and 978,000 ounces of silver defined to date.
  • Excellent upside to exploration in the surrounding area to increase tonnage.

Link to Hub / Link to Profile / Link to Forum

Regards,
George

Posted in 43-101's, AGORACOM Clients (New), AGORACOM Small-Cap TV | Comments Off on Firestone Ventures Joins AGORACOM 100 With NI 43-101: 330 Million Pounds of Zinc, 114 Million Pounds of Lead and 978,000 Ounces of Silver Defined to Date

African Gold Joins “AGORACOM 100″ with a focus on surpassing the 1,000,000 oz gold threshold within “Zone 1” of the Kobada deposit

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Agg

I’m very happy to announce that African Gold Group (AGG:TSXV) was added to the AGORACOM 100 today. African Gold’s management is no stranger to the mining industry, as Management has over 100 years of operating experience in Africa, and has played critical roles in raising more than $200 million for gold exploration and development projects on the African continent.

African Gold Group has 3 separate projects in Ghana, each located less than 30 km from existing milling infrastructure and 3 separate project sites in Mali, West Africa.

Investment Highlights

  • “Flagship” asset – Kobada, Mali – multi-million oz Au potential. 20,000 m RC drill program commenced.
  • AGG has entered into a joint venture agreement with Randgold Resources Ltd. to explore its Bagoe Assets in Mali.
  • Assuowunu, Ghana, contiguous and immediately on strike with Keegan Resources Inc. (KGN) Esaase property of 1.43 million ounces of gold.
  • Nyankumasi, Ghana, 30 km from Newmont’s Akyem project.
  • Veteran management team with over 100 collective years of operating experience on the African continent.
  • Collectively raised over $200 million in exploration capital for gold exploration and development.

Now, as a client of AGORACOM, assume I am horribly conflicted about the prospects for African Gold Group and do your own due diligence.

Link to Hub / Link to Profile / Link to Forum

Regards,
George

Posted in AGORACOM Clients (New), AGORACOM Small-Cap TV | Comments Off on African Gold Joins “AGORACOM 100″ with a focus on surpassing the 1,000,000 oz gold threshold within “Zone 1” of the Kobada deposit

ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: Trina Solar

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

Trina Solar – NYSE:TSL

Tsl

Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) is a well recognized manufacturer of high quality modules and has a long history as a solar PV pioneer since it was founded in 1997 as a system installation company. Trina Solar is one of the few PV manufacturers that has developed a vertically integrated business model from the production of monocrystalline and multicrystalline ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of high quality modules.

On February 24th, 2010, Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Results

Check out the full details below!

Read Full Press Release

China Stocks TV Segment

HIGHLIGHTS

Fourth Quarter 2009 Financial and Operating Highlights

  • Net revenues were $313.3 million, an increase of 25.4% sequentially and 44.8% year-over-year
  • Gross margin was 32.6%, above the Company’s guidance of 25% to 27% compared to 28.5% sequentially and 9.6% year-over-year
  • Operating income and operating margin were $64.4 million and 20.6%, respectively, compared to $45.5 million and 18.2%, respectively, in the third quarter of 2009
  • Net income was $49.2 million, compared to $40.1 million in the third quarter of 2009

Full Year 2009 Results Financial and Operating Highlights

  • Total net revenues were $845.1 million, an increase of 1.6% from 2008
  • Gross profit was $237.2 million, an increase of 44.2% from 2008
  • Gross margin was 28.1%, compared to 19.8% in 2008
  • Net income for the full year was $97.6 million, an increase of 59.0% from 2008
  • Earnings per fully diluted ADS for 2009 were $1.68, compared to $1.20 in 2008

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV, China | Comments Off on ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: Trina Solar

Crosshair Joins “AGORACOM 100″ with several exisiting NI 43-101 resources totalling 17.07 million pounds of uranium and 27.56 million pounds of vanadium

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Crosshair_with_tagline_final_

I am very pleased to announce that Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp (CXX:TSX) is the newest member of The AGORACOM 100. Why? When a company decides to make itself open and accessible to investors from around the world, you have to believe they are confident in their future and want to communicate accordingly.

FAST OVERVIEW

Crosshair controls the CMB Uranium/Vanadium Project which is located in Labrador, Canada and includes several exisiting NI 43-101 resources including a total of 17.07 million pounds of uranium and 27.56 million pounds of vanadium.  In March, Crosshair combined businesses with Target Exploration and Mining Corp. creating a well-funded, low-cost, growth-oriented, uranium company with a defined timeline to production in one of the most uranium mining friendly jurisdictions in North America.

Investment Highlights:

  • Substantial historical uranium resource in the Shirley Basin, Wyoming
    • NI 43-101 compliant resource of 4.34 million pounds of uranium
    • Cost-effective production by in-situ recovery
    • Near-term production potential
    • Production expertise from venture partner UR-Energy
    • Located in Wyoming, a uranium mining friendly state
      • Close to 200 million lbs. of past uranium production
      • Already producing uranium

As always, assume I am horribly conflicted by the fact Crosshair Exploration is an AGORACOM client and do your own due diligence.

Link to Hub / Link to Profile / Link to Forum

Regards,
George

Posted in AGORACOM Clients (New), AGORACOM Small-Cap TV | 2 Comments »

ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: China Wind Systems Inc.

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Monday, February 22nd, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

China Wind Systems Inc – OTC.BB:CWSI

Cwsi

China Wind Systems supplies forged rolled rings to the wind power and other industries and industrial equipment to the textile and energy industries in China. With its newly finished state-of-the-art production facility, the Company plans to increase its production and shipment of high-precision rolled rings and other essential components primarily to the wind power and other industries.

On February 22nd, 2010, announced preliminary results for the year ended December 31, 2009.

Check out the full details below!

Read Full Press Release

China Stocks TV Segment

HIGHLIGHTS

  • For the year ended December 31, 2009, revenue increased an estimated 26%, to approximately $53.4 million from $42.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2008.
  • Full year 2009 preliminary net income available to common shareholders was approximately $7.1 million, or $0.31 per diluted share, up 1,087% from $598,000, or $0.03 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2008.

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV, China | Comments Off on ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: China Wind Systems Inc.

Small-Cap Markets, Money and Life With Grandich and George – February 19, 2010

Posted by AGORACOM at 1:06 PM on Friday, February 19th, 2010

Good afternoon to you all and welcome to another edition of our weekly show, Markets, Money and Life With Grandich and George . This week’s show covered important and relevant topics to this week’s market action including:

  • The Grandich $50,000 Challenge To Any Gold Bear
  • Fed ramps up discount rate to 0.75%
  • IMF Gold Sale
  • Why Peter sees his $1,300 – $1,500 gold target accelerating after the IMF announcement
  • Why Gold will hit $1,125 before the day is done (comment made around 10:15 AM EST)
  • Questions from our members

Without further ado, here is this week’s show. Just click on the image below.

For those of you whose Flash player isn’t up to snuff, here’s the MP3:

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW

For those of you who want to download the show automatically, it has now been approved by Apple and available for download via iTunes. In addition, the show has it’s own podcast section on smallcappodcast.com. The latter also contains an RSS feed for those of you that want to syndicate the show on your site.

Have a great weekend and looking forward to your comments.

Regards,
George

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV, Friday Night Specials, Small-Cap Weekly Show | Comments Off on Small-Cap Markets, Money and Life With Grandich and George – February 19, 2010

AGORACOM Small Cap Stock TV – Breaking Small-Cap Stock News at the Open (February 2/10)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 2 and we’ve found just 1  great press release  to report on at the open. Another great day for mall-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leadingSmall-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

  • Apoquindo Minerals Inc. TSX-Venture: AQM $1.50

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV | Comments Off on AGORACOM Small Cap Stock TV – Breaking Small-Cap Stock News at the Open (February 2/10)

AGORACOM Small Cap Stock TV – Breaking Small-Cap Stock News at the Open (February 1/10)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Monday, February 1st, 2010

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 1 and we’ve found 2  great press release and 1 stock halts to report on at the open. Another great day for mall-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leadingSmall-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV | Comments Off on AGORACOM Small Cap Stock TV – Breaking Small-Cap Stock News at the Open (February 1/10)

AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (November 6/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Friday, November 6th, 2009

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s November 6 and we’ve found 3 great press release and  stock halts to report on at the open. Another great day for mall-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV | Comments Off on AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (November 6/09)

AGORACOM Interview: John Kaiser Talks Rare Earth Metals From Cambridge Conference

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:11 AM on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Good morning to you all.  As many resource stock investors know, the Cambridge Conference just wrapped up this past weekend in Toronto and it included several great keynote presentations from the likes of Peter Grandich and John Kaiser.  Unfortunately, geography limits the ability of most investors to attend these conferences and consume some of the great information.

As a result, AGORACOM went out of its way this year to make some of that important information accessible to investors around Canada, the USA and the world.  We have already posted some of those videos on the AGORACOM YouTube Channel and the AGORACOM blog.  We will continue to post many more over the next 2 days, so make sure to bookmark both of them.

To this end, I’m really happy to provide you with my interview with renowned market commentator, John Kaiser, of Kaiser Bottom-Fish Online.  John is fast becoming one of the leading authorities on Rare Earth Metals, a subject I am all too familiar with given AGORACOM’s investor relations work with Avalon Rare Metals between 2005-2008.  For those of you unfamiliar with rare earth metals (and you should be) they are are now vital to a growing number of applications in electronics, automotive, aerospace, alternative energy and environmental protection.  As Avalon says, they are the metals of the future.

In light of this, the following interview with John Kaiser is invaluable in helping you understand the importance of rare metals, their future and what to look for in a rare earth metals company in which you are considering making an investment.  If you like what John has to say, take a closer look at his website and consider becoming a subscriber to his newsletter.  It isn’t cheap but you get what you pay for.

The interview is a total of 10 minutes and 20 seconds long but due to YouTube’s 10-minute limit for uploaded videos, we had to splice the interview in 2 parts, which I’ve embedded below. For best sound quality, I suggest putting on your headset/earphones.

PART 1 – The State Of The Industry

PART 2 – Sample Companies And What To Look For

Regards,
George

Posted in AGORACOM Small-Cap TV, All Recent Posts, Rare Metals | 8 Comments »

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »