Topic: How To Invest

Pat: What are your thoughts on Tucows? Is it a buy or a sell? Thank you.

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Tucows, $30.88, symbol TC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 11.0 million; Market cap: $340.9 million; www.tucows.com), provides network access, domain names and other Internet services, such as email hosting, through its OpenSRS division. OpenSRS manages over 14 million domain names, while the company’s Ting subsidiary offers mobile phone service to individuals and small businesses. In the three months ended June 30, 2015, Tucows’ revenue rose 20.5%, to $42.9 million from $35.6 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). Earnings per share jumped to $0.21 from $0.12. Tucows holds cash of $15.3 million, or $1.39 a share, and has no long-term debt. The stock moved up from just over $20 in May 2015 to as high as $41.40 in July before pulling back to today’s price. That’s likely because of GoDaddy’s (symbol GDDY on New York) successful initial public offering on April 1, 2015, and subsequent price jump. Like Tucows, GoDaddy registers domain names and…