Author: Keith Schaefer

Build an AI megafactory and you’ll need a copper mine to match. The latest hyperscale data centers designed to handle AI workloads are orders of magnitude larger than the server farms of a decade ago. Older facilities might consume 5–15 thousand tons of copper in wiring, busbars, transformers and cooling equipment. Next generation AI campuses […]

We are in a rare earth/critical mineral mania. Rare earth elements (REE) and critical mineral (CM) stocks have been on fire. The VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metal ETF (REMX – NYSE) doubled in under 4 months prior to pulling back earlier this month. Source: Stockcharts.com As an “old-time investor” in mining stocks, let me […]

If I had done NOTHING in the last 30 years of investing except buy the stocks out of the Lundin Group of Companies, I would be a very very wealthy man. And I would have done it with so much less stress! This storied mining family, from Sweden, have built many mines and sold a […]

The talk of the town in the oil market is spare capacity. OPEC+ spare capacity. When OPEC+ met in September they surprised the market by deciding to continue to increase production. OPEC+ plans another boost of 137,000 barrels a day in October. This is on top of the unwind of 2.2 million barrels from April […]

The Massive, Simple, Scalable Gold Play You’ve Never Heard Of—Yet Unique ideas are rare in mining/mineral exploration. But Canary Gold (BRAZ-CSE/CNYGF-OTC) has one of the best I’ve heard in a long time. This idea occurs in Brazil, near the Bolivian border, just as the foothills of the steep Andes meet the flat edges of the […]

In the US in 2024, Covid vaccine uptake was 23% among adults and 14% among children. That works out to 70-80 million people that received a Covid vaccine…YEARS after the pandemic. INVIVYD (IVVD-NASD) is in Phase 3 trial for a new drug that would be a vaccine ALTERNATIVE–which in this political environment is a big […]

Byrna Technologies (BYRN – NASDAQ) is a good lesson in why it’s not a good idea to focus on how much a stock is up. When we first wrote up Byrna in the fall of 2023, the stock was already up over 100% – from $2 to $4 – in just over a month.   […]

    I have a very out of consensus opinion. I think that at some point in the next couple of months, the market is going to catch on that the US housing industry is bottoming and housing stocks are going to take off. I know, there are lots of reasons to think this won’t […]

The junior tech market is getting serious love from investors–finally! Positive cash flow among Canadian small caps meant nothing for years until about early 2024–and then a wave of companies–who were executing really well–started to move. The stocks of BeWhere (BEW), Blackline Safety (BLN) and others have done very well and stayed near 52 weeks […]

It’s rare to find a company–in any sector–with a combination of high quality management who own a lot of stock and execute SO WELL on a business model—as well as PHX Energy Services does. I bought this stock for both my newsletter portfolios–InvestingWhisperer and the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin. They arguably don’t have a […]

Most of the stocks I writ about are sub $100 million market capitalization, because this is where the market is most inefficient. You can find deals; value that is not 100% recognized in the stock price. But you don’t always have to bottom fish in the smallest names to find value – especially when the […]

The stocks of junior gold producers are FINALLY waking up–and having a BIG run. Two of the biggest are juniors who bought their mines when gold was higher–but interest in gold stocks was definitely not. So these two management teams bought their mines for SUPER CHEAP. The lack of interest in gold until now—Has has […]

There are not a lot of winners in this market. In fact, it is close to zero. Seeing such wide-spread carnage makes me want to look for bargains AND for charts that have held up. I spent Friday morning stepping through the chart of every company in the S&P 500, the S&P 400 and the […]

Stock ideas can come from just about anywhere. Your barber. Your father-in-law. Some random guy on the street. You can’t be too picky about the source. But do the work yourself. I say this because some of you may pause at where I got the idea for Rezolute Bio (RZLT – NASDAQ). Martin Shkreli. While […]

AND I DECIDED….TO DO NOTHING WESTSHORE TERMINALS (WTE – TSX) What do you invest in when your largest trading partner is slapping 25% tariffs on everything crossing the border? How about a company that is tied 100% to Canadian exports that go to everywhere BUT the United States. That is what we’ve got with Westshore […]

Donald Trump wants to right-size trade with other countries. He is hell bent on removing the trade deficit. To Trump, a trade deficit is a sign of economic weakness. Americans are “losing” to other countries. The losses are two-fold. American workers are losing good-paying manufacturing jobs. And money outflows are draining the national wealth. So far, his ire has […]

Elon Musk is all over the news these days for reasons that have nothing to do with investing. But before Musk decided to go all in on DOGE (the Department of Governmental Efficiency), he made a few comments on the last Tesla (TSLA – NASDAQ) call about self-driving cars that made me take notice. Musk […]

YOU JUST HAVE TO DIG FOR THE REAL NUMBERS Ahh, the good ole’ days when stocks traded on simpler ideas like cash flow, not on options, or which gamma quadrant we’re in. When the monthly Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) would come out 10 or 20 years ago, I would get at least 5 different analyses in […]