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TransAct Technologies (NasdaqGM: $TACT): The label that sticks
Business TransAct is a thermal printing company transitioning into a food service technology platform. The company has three revenue streams: BOHA! In this segment, the company offers a hybrid value proposition between hardware and software. They sell food service terminals, SaaS software and label consumables. This replaces pen-and-paper back-of-house food safety workflows. Basically, the employee…
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Talk Crude to Me: Bonterra Energy (TSX:BNE) — Canada’s Light Oil Underdog
(This article is from October 2025. Stock went up a lot, time to revisit) History Bonterra Energy Corp. is a long-standing oil and gas production company. Historically, it was a focused Pembina Cardium play. The Pembina region of the Cardium has long been a petroleum-producing hub in Alberta in terms of pure conventional oil, i.e.,…
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PeopleIn ($PPE.AX): Positioned to Win Gold at Brisbane 2032
Business PeopleIN is one of the largest Australian workforce solutions companies, operating as a family of specialized recruitment and labor-hire agencies. The company screens, recruits, trains, and employs casual, part-time, and permanent staff for over 4,200 clients. Since its IPO in 2021, PeopleIN has remained responsible for all wages and remuneration, charging customers based on…
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Euronet (NasdaqGS:$EEFT): An Integrated Payments Play
Business Euronet operates across three main segments: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT): Euronet owns and operates its own ATMs as well as bank-outsourced machines, with a network of roughly 56,000 ATMs. This segment contributes about 30% of the company’s total revenue. epay: This segment distributes both physical and digital third-party content—think Netflix or Amazon gift cards.…
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$NAII: Chronicles of a Failed Investment
Rationale I found this company back in July 2023, when I originally started tracking my investment portfolio. In short, this is a company that provides private-label manufacturing for fitness products, i.e., powders, supplements, etc., in addition to having patent rights to something called beta-alanine. The company had explosive growth during the pandemic years and decided…
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Civeo Q3 2025 Earnings — Notes
Positives on the turnaround Cost-cutting and cold-closing continue to show tangible progress. Accommodation gross profit margin improved again, reaching 27.38%, up from 25.71% in the previous quarter and 17.87% a year earlier. The share buyback program is moving steadily forward. With 69% of the authorization already completed, the company remains on track to reduce its…
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Civeo Corp (NYSE: $CVEO) : Betting on Beds Without Losing Sleep
History, Acquisitions & Foundation Laying: These paragraphs are extracted from the 2024 10-K report to explain what the company does. There is no need for me to paraphrase what they do, since they do a better job explaining it than I could. On the company’s history: It was founded in 1977 as a rental company…
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Liberty Latin America: Spin-off and Deleveraging Story
Business: Liberty Latin America is an international provider of fixed, mobile and subsea telecommunication services, residential as well as B2B, across 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through C&W Caribbean, C&W Panama, Liberty Puerto Rico and Liberty Costa Rica. As you can see, the company is pretty big in the region. They have…
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Where My Money Sits in 2025
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Outokumpu Oyj ($OUT1V.HE): Investing in Steel without getting Scrapped.

“Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.” – Benjamin Graham Understanding Stainless Steel: Market Overview, Pricing, and Key Concepts In short, stainless steel is an alloy of iron with a maximum carbon content of 2.1%; in fact, the carbon percentage can range from 0.03% to 1.2%. Stainless steel contains a high amount of chromium (a…