Put out a post last week simply sharing my notes on the stocks I was doing research into with the goal of actually writing out my theses for the companies I like, not just storing all of that info in my brain and then forgetting half the reasons why I like the stock. Here are 4 stocks that I like right now, all quite timely as they have been doing well and have had strong recent developments. Please feel free to critique any of this or ask questions. Also feel free to share any stocks you are watching and I will try to take a look. Cheers
# Metal Energy $MERG.V $MEEEF
Copper gold explorer in the Toodoggone district, $40M market cap.
This has been one of my favorite stories for a while now. They've got this property, NIV, that's a 5 km long anomaly with gold, copper, and moly all stacking on top of each other, sitting right next to a property where the neighbour drilled a weaker version of the same system back in 2021 and hit 81.6 metres of 0.41% copper. NIV itself has never seen a drill.
It's so promising that Centerra and Teck both came in for 9.9% of the company before a single hole was drilled into the ground.
Monday they announced that drilling has started at NIV, and myself and the market are clearly excited, with the stock running up 24% on the news.
I honestly think this one is gonna be a pretty hot stock to watch for the rest of the summer as these drill results come out. Obviously only God knows what the results will be, but this is definitely one to at least watch.
I hold a position and have been a fan of the company for a while.
# Atlas Salt $SALQF $SALT.V
Developing what would be North America's first new salt mine in almost 30 years, up in Newfoundland. Sitting around $200M enterprise value right now.
The deposit itself is what makes this one interesting. Basically 95 million tonnes of reserves at over 95% purity, and it's only 180 metres below surface, which is shallow for something this size. For comparison the biggest salt mine in North America sits 600 metres under Lake Huron. Shallow just means cheaper and faster to actually build.
North America's had an actual salt shortage the past couple winters, Ontario and New York both had shortages and price spikes, and the continent still imports 8 to 10 million tonnes a year just to cover road salt demand. This project ships straight into that gap, and it's like 3 days to Boston by boat versus 14 days from Egypt or Chile.
The numbers on paper look strong too, feasibility study has this at $920M NPV after tax, 21% IRR, and something like $188M a year in free cash flow once it's actually up and running. Against a $200M market cap that's a big gap on paper, but obviously none of that cash flow exists yet.
They've been checking boxes though. Environmental assessment's done, early works plan is approved, they've got Sandvik and Hatch locked in for equipment and engineering. Stock's been climbing steadily for months, from around 80 cents last fall to just shy of a new 52-week high today at around $1.75 Canadian. They also just locked in a $15 million raise in June, so they're pretty cashed up.
Risk here is it's still pre production. They need to lock down a full financing package to actually build this thing, which probably means more dilution down the line. Nothing's built yet, this one's a multi year story.
PharmaCorp Rx $PCRX.V $
Basically a roll up buying independent pharmacies across Canada and folding them into the PharmaChoice banner, using scale to squeeze better margins out of both the front shop and the pharmacy side. Boring business, but boring can be good.
They just closed on eight pharmacies in Eastern Canada for $24.2M, which takes them from six stores to fourteen, more than doubling their footprint in one shot. On top of that they've got more LOIs in the pipeline, one already converted into a definitive deal for another $8.2M location, so realistically they're looking at somewhere around eighteen stores by end of year.
Same store numbers have actually been solid too, script counts and sales both growing in the high single digits, and EBITDA has been climbing steadily quarter over quarter.
The balance sheet going into all this was clean, tons of cash, basically no debt. But funding this next round of acquisitions is going to eat into that cash pretty heavily, and there's a decent chance they end up tapping their credit facility or taking on more dilution to close the gap. That's really the whole risk with this one, growth is real but it's coming through acquisitions funded by debt or dilution, not organic cash flow alone.
They've got exclusive first right of refusal on over 1,150 PharmaChoice stores nationally, with 40 to 50 of those turning over every year, so the pipeline of future deals is basically already built in.
This one's less of a hype story and more of a "watch the execution" story. If they can integrate all these new locations without stumbling, this could be a solid compounding business.
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Inturai Ventures $URAIF $URAI.CN
Inturai basically uses wifi signals to detect movement and presence through walls, no cameras, no wearables, nothing extra needed. Kind of a wild concept honestly.
Been building out deployments in healthcare, aged care, home security, and military stuff, with first revenue coming in across a few different countries already.
Obviously almost all the talk lately is just about AI and emerging tech, so this is one that could catch some favorable press just off that alone. I've been pretty impressed with how well it's been trading, it's had some of the most volume it's seen in a long time over the past few weeks.
Then Monday they dropped one of the more promising releases yet, an LOI to acquire a drone command platform. Exciting, but still just an LOI. Worth noting this puts them in similar territory to SPAI, which the market has already shown a ton of appetite for, that stock ran from 20 cents to $7 on the autonomous drone theme alone. It has cooled off a bit lately though reasonably so.
Still a tiny company, only around $27M CAD, and that's after basically going vertical over the past week. I think this one could easily get a bid just off current market conditions alone. It really only started making noise about a week ago, so worth keeping an eye on before everyone else catches on.
I am a shareholder of URAI and agreed to do some marketing on it so I am definitely biased, so please do your own research on this one before investing.
Please do not take any of this information as financial advice. Please assume I am a shareholder and have been compensated and am biased. Do your own research, it is easier than ever nowadays. Thanks for reading