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Nov 7Liked by Sebastian

Ausgezeichnet!

A question how do you follow prices, where do you get price alerts? Yahoo has a nice feature for price alerts but when the price gets there, the price alert is deleted.

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I check prices daily of the stocks on my watchlist. More important for me is to get alerts for the operating developments

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I’d say practical experiences also play a big part, maybe not so much in the micro cap space, but definitely in the small cap space.

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Thanks for taking the time to share this. Why do you prefere to restrict yourself to US and Canada?

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1) The capital pool is way bigger, if you are right on an idea, there is enough capital to buy it up and get excited about it.

2) Activist involvement is higher

3) Management teams and their capital allocation skills are on average better than in the EU.

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Thanks for sharing! Great video too. I would really like your opinion about iCAD, a m(icro)cap around 42 mill. Primary focus on detecting breast cancer via their AI model, secondary focus on detecting heart disease with AI.

Has been a thesis on the VIC in June '23 but major catalyst: the sale of their therapiesegment was a bummer. Nevertheless has the new CEO transitioned to a subscription based model and the projection to be profitable by Q4 2024. Insider ownership lies at 6%, is that the reason of the low valuation?

Greetings!

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Thanks for the quick pitch. I’ll take a look, but first read looks like it may be outside of my circle of competence

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Thanks for your response, it’s indeed a niche in a niche :)

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iCAD has negative operating cashflows. Doesn't look like value tbh. More like bankruptcy in a few years.

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I agree but they have stabilized cash burn, no debt anymore and half of the mc is cash.

I can’t see a way they go bankrupt in the next couple of years. I can agree that they aren’t real value yet because they show no profound revenue (yet).

But if they can, with the new structure from the CEO, this will be a growth company with a large market imo

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Excellent article, Sebastian. I’ve always been a big fan of creating bucket lists for stocks, especially the ones I don’t buy right away. It saves so much time to be able to go back and look at your old notes on a stock 10 years ago to see if anything has changed that made you not want to buy it the first time around.

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Thanks for sharing your process! Always interesting to see how other investors go about finding potential investments. Appreciate the posts!

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Great post Sebastian. Discovered some new things like feeder. Thank you.

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Thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of the feeder app before. I also use an A to Z approach. Some screeners will also display stocks with 'incomplete data'. This could mean that it does not screen well and could lead to a slight advantage...

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