Tuesday is turning into a lousy day to own marijuana stocks, as bad news from cannabis company Tilray Brands(NASDAQ: TLRY) is taking a toll on pretty much every other marijuana stock out there. Tilray reported a miss on sales this morning and a $0.12 per-share net loss.
Shares of Cronos Group(NASDAQ: CRON), Canopy Growth(NASDAQ: CGC), and Aurora Cannabis(NASDAQ: ACB) are all suffering as a result, down 3.5%, 7.8%, and 8.5%, respectively, as of 12 p.m. ET.
Tilray’s pain is everyone’s pain
How bad was Tilray’s news, and was it bad enough to justify the reaction to other marijuana stocks? It depends on how you look at it.
On the one hand, Tilray put up some pretty decent growth numbers — 30% total sales growth, 33% growth in marijuana sales, in particular, and 165% growth in alcohol sales. On the other hand, marijuana investors would probably rather have seen Tilray do a bit better on the marijuana front.
It’s also worth pointing out that even much of Tilray’s marijuana sales growth came not organically but from the company’s acquisition of Hexo. Thus, growth in Tilray’s marijuana business doesn’t necessarily imply that the marijuana industry, as a whole, is growing. And the contrary may be more accurate.
Despite being the self-proclaimed “#1 Canadian cannabis LP, the European market leader in medical cannabis,” and despite cutting costs and “realizing operating synergies in integrating our HEXO acquisition,” Tilray was forced today to admit that it’s no longer on track to generate positive free cash flow (FCF) this year. It turns out that the analysts forecasting that Tilray would burn cash in 2024 despite its assertions to the contrary were, in fact, correct.
Just as it’s burned cash in every year it’s been in business, Tilray will burn cash again in 2024.
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What does this mean for Tilray’s competitors? Consider that the company is one of the biggest marijuana stocks on the market today, with roughly twice the market cap of Canopy or Cronos and several times the size of Aurora Cannabis. Only a couple of OTC-listed cannabis stocks are bigger. If Tilray can’t earn a profit in this business despite gobbling up competitors and cutting costs, what hope do smaller companies like Aurora Cannabis, Canopy Growth, and Cronos have?
The answer may be not much. As it turns out, analysts polled by S&P Global Market Intelligence predict Aurora Cannabis won’t turn FCF-positive before 2026. Canopy Growth will do so only in 2027, and Cronos may literally never generate positive cash profits for its investors.
The sad truth is that Tilray may be the best of this bunch. But if even Tilray is suffering, it’s probably best to avoid the rest.
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TORONTO – Restaurant Brands International Inc. reported net income of US$357 million for its third quarter, down from US$364 million in the same quarter last year.
The company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says its profit amounted to 79 cents US per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30 compared with 79 cents US per diluted share a year earlier.
Revenue for the parent company of Tim Hortons, Burger King, Popeyes and Firehouse Subs, totalled US$2.29 billion, up from US$1.84 billion in the same quarter last year.
Consolidated comparable sales were up 0.3 per cent.
On an adjusted basis, Restaurant Brands says it earned 93 cents US per diluted share in its latest quarter, up from an adjusted profit of 90 cents US per diluted share a year earlier.
The average analyst estimate had been for a profit of 95 cents US per share, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2024.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Fortis Inc. reported a third-quarter profit of $420 million, up from $394 million in the same quarter last year.
The electric and gas utility says the profit amounted to 85 cents per share for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up from 81 cents per share a year earlier.
Fortis says the increase was driven by rate base growth across its utilities, and strong earnings in Arizona largely reflecting new customer rates at Tucson Electric Power.
Revenue in the quarter totalled $2.77 billion, up from $2.72 billion in the same quarter last year.
On an adjusted basis, Fortis says it earned 85 cents per share in its latest quarter, up from an adjusted profit of 84 cents per share in the third quarter of 2023.
The average analyst estimate had been for a profit of 82 cents per share, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2024.
TORONTO – Thomson Reuters reported its third-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago as its revenue rose eight per cent.
The company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says it earned US$301 million or 67 cents US per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30. The result compared with a profit of US$367 million or 80 cents US per diluted share in the same quarter a year earlier.
Revenue for the quarter totalled US$1.72 billion, up from US$1.59 billion a year earlier.
In its outlook, Thomson Reuters says it now expects organic revenue growth of 7.0 per cent for its full year, up from earlier expectations for growth of 6.5 per cent.
On an adjusted basis, Thomson Reuters says it earned 80 cents US per share in its latest quarter, down from an adjusted profit of 82 cents US per share in the same quarter last year.
The average analyst estimate had been for a profit of 76 cents US per share, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2024.
