Capital Raises Summary
Each week, Viridian publishes insights and analysis on completed capital raise transactions in the prior week, focusing on all equity and debt deals. Our analysis includes:
- Summary
- Outlook
- Best & Worst Perfromers
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- LTM capital raises totaled $2.30B, down -0.8% from the same period in 2024. Debt as a percentage of capital raised on a worldwide basis was 64.2%, compared to 57.8% last year. U.S. raises LTM accounted for 76.4% of total funds, up from 53.6% at the same point in 2023. Raises from outside Canada and the U.S. represented 1.81% of the total funds raised, falling short of the average of 5.33% in the six previous years.
- Raises by public companies accounted for 80.66% of total raises in the LTM period, the highest since 2021.
- Cultivation and retail sector capital raises were $1.20B for the LTM period, 3.5% higher than 2024, which in turn was up 167% from 2023.
- Debt accounts for 92.5% of funds raised in the LTM period. Large debt issues (>$100M) represented 40.6% of capital raised compared to zero in 2023.
- Cannabis equity prices (as measured by the MSOS ETF) declined 3.32% for the week, finishing at all-time lows.
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Capital Raises vs Stock Prices
- Cannabis equity prices (as measured by the MSOS ETF) declined 3.32% for the week, finishing at all-time lows.
