A four-time increase in traded volume over the past five days is a significant feat for any stock. Companies on today’s list include a print media giant, a brewer, and an eye-glass maker.
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (TSX: PNC.A) – $0.99
Consumer Publishing
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is a publisher of English-language daily newspapers in Canada. The Company’s business consists of news and information gathering and dissemination operations, with products offered in major Canadian markets and a number of regional and local markets in Canada through a variety of print, web, tablet and smartphone platforms. The Company’s brands include National Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Province, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Leader-Post, The StarPhoenix, Ottawa Citizen, The Windsor Star and Montreal Gazette, among others.
- Market Cap: $234,253,795
- Revenue (LTM): $632,752,000
- EV/EBITDA: 7.4x
- Change in Volume: 488.2%
Logan International Inc. (TSX: LII) – $3.00
Oil Related Services and Equipment
Logan International Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a range of products and services. The Company manufactures and sells a line of fishing and intervention tools, including retrieving, stroking, and remedial tools, and power swivels for a variety of well work over, intervention, drilling, and completion activities through Logan Oil Tools, Inc. It manufactures and sells poly-crystalline diamond compact (PDC) cutters and bearings through its Dennis Tool Company. The Company through Kline Oilfield Equipment, Inc. manufactures and sells packers, bridge plugs and other completion products. It provides multi-zonal completion technology and conventional completion production products and services through Logan Completion Systems Inc.
- Market Cap: $101,123,929
- Revenue (LTM): $176,811,372
- EV/EBITDA: 4.6x
- Change in Volume: 460.5%
Brick Brewing Co. Ltd. (TSX: BRB) – $1.67
Brewers
Brick Brewing Co. Limited (Brick) is a Canada-based brewery company. The Company is a regional brewer of premium and value beers, ciders and ready to drink products and is officially certified under the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standards for Food Safety. The Company produces over 3.6 million cases of product that includes its co-pack business, its Laker family of beers, variety of Seagram products, Formosa, Red Cap, Red Baron and the expertly crafted family of beers from its craft division, Waterloo Brewing Co. The Company has 450,000 hectoliters or 5,500,000 cases of capacity that produces a wide variety of beverages. Company’s operations include brewing facilities in Waterloo and Formosa and packaging facilities in both its Kitchener and Formosa facilities that include bottling, canning, kegging and distribution.
- Market Cap: $58,491,309
- Revenue (LTM): $36,502,030
- EV/EBITDA: 11.8x
- Change in Volume: 339.5%
New Look Vision Group Inc. (TSX: BCI) – $33.40
Miscellaneous Specialty Retailers
New Look Vision Group Inc., formerly New Look Eyewear Inc., is a Canada-based company engaged in eye care products and services in Eastern Canada. The Company has two main segments, including New Look and Vogue Optical. Its product portfolio includes sunglasses, ophthalmic lenses, eyeglasses and contact lenses. The whole network consists of over 140 eye care stores. The Company operates a lens processing laboratory and a distribution centre in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec and a lens processing laboratory in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It provides a number of varieties of glasses and lenses for men, women, girls and boys, as well as unisex models.
- Market Cap: $447,873,760
- Revenue (LTM): $150,220,000
- EV/EBITDA: 18.3x
- Change in Volume: 308.4%
Crosswinds Holdings Inc. (TSX: CWI) – $6.00
Diversified Investment Services
Crosswinds Holdings Inc., formerly C.A. Bancorp Inc., is a Canada-based merchant bank and alternative asset manager. The Company focuses on the insurance industry, providing investors with access to a range of private equity and other alternative asset class investment opportunities. The Company invests in small- and middle- capitalization public and private companies, with emphasis on the industrials, infrastructure and financial services sectors. The Company’s investments are either Direct Investments or through entities managed by it (Asset Management).
- Market Cap: $31,920,140
- Revenue (LTM): $600,570
- EV/EBITDA: 6.4x
- Change in Volume: 300.0%
