116 - Learning from mistakes you narrowly avoid $MCLDF

116 – Learning from mistakes you narrowly avoid $MCLDF

Podcast episode 116 - Learning from mistakes you narrowly avoid using mCloud Technologies $MCLDF as an example

Mental Models discussed in this podcast:

Confirmation Bias
Skin in the Game

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Show Outline

mCloud Technologies – $MCLDF

SaaS company
- Trading at just 1x expected revenue
Energy efficiency (Oil and Gas Plant efficiency)
Green Energy (Wind Turbines, HVAC efficiency)
Uses AI

Problems:

Cash flow negative (Presumably in the name of growth)
Regular ongoing stock issuance and dilution
- Both shares and warrants
- “An assumption that this is the last time.”
Very promotional management (with skin-in-the-game?!?)
“Uplisting to the NASDAQ” talk
- A lot of examples of SaaS names going from 1-2x revenue while on the Canadian TSX market to 10x+ revenue on the NASDAQ in the US
- Still hasn’t occurred many years later
Mergers and acquisitions using stock (Not cash, because they don’t have any)
Growth targets include non-organic growth (REALLY BAD)
- Dilution is required, but it makes it impossible to model per share returns
Exit: Liquidity event needed for the payoff (Either sell to another company or an uplisting)

Lessons Learned:

Don’t buy promotional companies
Don’t buy companies that dilute
Don’t buy companies that can’t self-fund growth
Insider ownership does not equal skin-in-the-game
Be wary of ‘uplisting’ as a catalyst

Summary:

Investors need to constantly be wary of confirmation bias and stay alert for possible red flags. mCloud Technologies stock $MCLDF taught me this lesson. Don’t buy promotional companies that dilute shareholders and can’t self-fund growth.

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