illumin Holdings Inc T.ILLM

STRONG BUY! (Nice summary by Dara on Yahoo Finance Board)

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***FOR NEW/CURRENT INVESTORS*** A couple months ago, 5i Research Investments [an independent source that seeks to eliminate bias in financial recommendations] named “AcuityAds as one of the best Canadian companies for runaway growth”. They issued a strong buy recommendation. Their founder Peter Hodson is also the original source for the BABY BROTHER STOCK THESIS (AcuityAds being a small cap but growing version of TTD). Here is Hodson’s article from 1 year 7 months ago:
https://financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/five-baby-brother-stock-picks-that-could-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-big-winners

MF Canada Hidden Gems expanded on this thesis in an insightful piece of writing and strongly recommended it to “paying” clients. They said a potential 10x and maybe more. Then, they said 100x (bagger) over next decade.

Virtus Advisory Group also put out around this time two detailed reports over two months that strongly argued that for AcuityAds (refer to my previous posts). And, then MF USA posted a detailed article on AcuityAds called “Looking for the Next Trade Desk? This Under-the-Radar-Small-Cap Stock Could Be It”. They stated that “this ad tech platform could explode over the next year.”

Now, fast forward, we have several new price targets around and in the 20s Canadian (24 Canadian is the highest target by a US investment bank – not bad for a company still trading on the OTC).

And, of course, the company is planning to move to the NASDAQ (remember that just 4.5 years ago TTD opened on the NASDAQ at 18 US closed at almost 30 that day – and now they’re over a 40 bagger already… so, saying that small cap AcuityAds could be a 100 bagger is a real possibility).

** Back to 5i Research Investments. They regularly talk about AcuityAds. This what they said THIS MORNING (Jan 18) when asked for their choice of the
TOP 3 CANADIAN STOCKS at this time and their reasons for their choices.
NUMBER ONE: ACUITYADS!
REASONS: relative low valuation compared to peers, their potential growth potential (especially with illumin), and the fact that their in a massively growing sector (programmatic digital advertising)

** 5i Research Investments was also asked (on Friday, Jan 15) who they preferred in terms of growth in the field of digital advertising – AcuityAds or MGNI? (remember: MGNI is on the NASDAQ right now and has a lot of buzz).

Here is their ANSWER: Even though they know MGNI more and have followed it longer, they state that “AcuityAds valuation and growth potential make it more attractive to us currently”.

So, let me repeat to those who like making money: STRONG BUY RIGHT NOW.
This is going up if you BUY AND HOLD.

Remember what Warren Buffet famously said (and it definitely applies to AcuityAds right now).

“the stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient”

be patient – AcuityAds will multiply many time from this current price