Episodes
Friday Feb 22, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Newstrike Brands (HIP.V)
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
For the last 12 months Newstrike Brands (HIP.V) has been quietly building a Canadian cannabis company that has gone from overvalued in a post-legalization world to an interesting proposition – especially for value investors wishing to capitalize on Canada's multi-billion-dollar legal cannabis market.
Equity.Guru's own Chris Parry spoke with Jay Wilgar CEO and director of Newstrike to get a closer look at the company, its colorful history and what the future holds for the company and its shareholders.
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Friday Feb 15, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Titan Pharmaceuticals (TTNP)
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Titan Pharmaceuticals (TTNP.Q) is an American pharmaceutical company based out of San Francisco, California. The company has recently relaunched Probuphine, its six-month treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
The company reacquired the rights to Probuphine from Braeburn Pharmaceuticals. Since the June 2018 relaunch, sales of Probuphine have increased over 20% and the company has doubled its staff.
The Center for Disease Control says 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. We spoke to Kate DeVarney, Titan's CSO and executive vice president , about the life-changing effect Probuphine can have on someone struggling with opioid addiction and the company's pilot program for treating OUD within Nevada's prison population.
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--Ethan Reyes
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Grit Capital
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Grit Capital, a capital market advisory firm based out of Toronto, is making a name for itself in the small cap corporate community with its forward-thinking approach to engaging a new generation of investors weened on Youtube and Facebook.
Founded in 2016, the company has over 10,000 followers with North American portfolio managers, retail advisers and accredited investors.
Grit advises both public and private small cap ventures and has an established skill set in assisting pre-RTO, or reverse take over, stage companies reach the public market.
Equity.Guru's Chris Parry spoke with Grit Capital CEO, Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA, about gender in the world of corporate finance, reaching millennial investors, blockchain, Bitcoin and what the future holds for Grit.
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Monday Jan 28, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Hemptown Organics
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Hemptown Organics is a private company which produces high-quality, full-spectrum CBD and CBG isolate out of its facility in southern Oregon.
Part of Southern Oregon intersects with the legendary Emerald Triangle. As such, the company is well situated for cultivation: Hemptown grew 150,000 pounds of bio-mass in 2018 during its first season.
The company is currently in the process of raising USD$10.5 million for farm expansion.
With up to an additional 3,780 acres of farmland available for expansion, in-house extraction and processing facilities and a branded product line, Hemptown Organics intends to capitalize on a global CBD hemp-oil market estimated to hit USD$2.5 billion by 2026.
Equity.Guru’s own Chris Parry, spoke with Mike Townsend, Hemptown’s CEO, to get an inside look at the company, its portfolio and its future prospects.
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Monday Jan 28, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Barrian Mining
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Barrian Mining is about to go public and the British Columbia-based junior is making waves by coming at the investment market from a whole new angle.
Mining has traditionally been an old person’s game. However, as millennials begin to outnumber Baby Boomers, mining companies are moving to tap into this new generation of investors.
Barrian Mining, one of these forward-thinking explorers, has a 50.1% interest in the Bolo project located in Nye County, Nevada. The company has expressed confidence in the project containing a Carlin-style gold deposit.
Equity.Guru’s Chris Parry spoke with Max Sali, Barrian Mining’s CEO, to discuss how his company plans on enticing the new generation of investors into resources and everything else it has in store for 2019.
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Friday Jan 18, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T)
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T) is one of the largest LPs in the game. With an $8.7 billion market cap, supply deals across the country and an international presence, the sector takes notice when Aurora moves.
It's been a volatile market for legal cannabis companies over the last year and Aurora hasn't been immune to the effects.
In fact, the company accrued some sizable debt in 2018 which topped out at CAD$203 million, leading some investors to wonder if the company had the ability to grow and service its debt obligations at the same time.
Chris Parry, Equity.Guru founder, sat with Cam Battley, Aurora Cannabis' chief corporate officer, to find out how the company is handling its debt-depressed bottom line and what the markets can expect from Aurora over the next 12 months.
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Friday Jan 18, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Yield Growth (BOSS.C)
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Yield Growth (BOSS.C) intends to disrupt the $4.2 trillion global wellness market with a diverse line of wellness product offerings infused with CBD and THC.
The company's wholly owned subsidiary, Urban Juve, carries an Ayurveda-inspired skin care and beauty brand infused with cannabis sativa hemp root oil available for purchase online and soon to be available on store shelves across Canada.
Equity Guru founder Chris Parry, sat down recently with Yield Growth director, president and CEO, Penny Green and spoke about the company, its progress, its pending extraction patents and what investors can expect in 2019.
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Full disclosure: Yield Growth is an Equity.Guru marketing client.
Friday Jan 18, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: LiveWell Canada (LVWL.C)
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
LiveWell Canada (LVWL.C) is one of the largest hemp cultivation and CBD extraction operations in North America.
Currently the company is transforming itself into a vertically integrated global CBD life sciences firm which develops and distributes prescription and consumer health products.
Equity.Guru founder, Chris Parry talks with David Rendimonti, director and chief executive officer of LiveWell, to get an inside look at the company, its products and its future.
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
EQUITY.GURU: Chemesis (CSI.C)
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Equity Guru founder, Chris Parry, talks with Edgar Montero, CEO of Chemesis International (CSI.C), a vertically integrated cannabis market player with operations in Colombia, California and Puerto Rico that deals in cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and retail of legal cannabis and its derivatives.
Wednesday Jul 11, 2018