Topic: Growth Stocks

Stock Pickers Digest Hotline – Friday, September 3, 2010

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CANALASKA URANIUM, $0.09, symbol CVV on Toronto, plans to consolidate its shares on a 1-for-10 basis. That will lower its shares outstanding from about 171.9 million to 17.2 million. Companies typically cut back their shares to make them more attractive to institutional or other large investors who typically avoid stocks that trade for just pennies a share. Consolidations, or reverse stock splits, sometimes hurt investor confidence. They can undermine the value of a given holding by as much as 25%, at least temporarily, even though there is no change in the company’s business or assets. Other times, however, they have little, if any, effect. Meanwhile, CanAlaska and its joint-venture partners continue to explore its twenty 100%-owned uranium properties in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin region. Its partners include Japan’s giant Mitsubishi Corp., Chinese mining firm East Resources Inc. and a consortium of Korean companies that consists of Hanwha Corporation, Korea Electric Power, Korea Resources and SK Energy. CanAlaska holds cash of $11.3…