OUR 9TH YEAR OF PROVIDING PROPRIETARY CAPITAL MARKETS INTELLIGENCE ON THE CANNABIS / HEMP / PSYCHEDELIC SECTORS
OUR 9TH YEAR OF PROVIDING PROPRIETARY CAPITAL MARKETS INTELLIGENCE ON THE CANNABIS / HEMP / PSYCHEDELIC SECTORS
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Our sector trackers include ratios applicable to value companies with no analyst coverage and the more typical EV/ Revenues and EV/ EBITDA measures. For each valuation measure, we present the values for the lowest 25% of companies, the median, and the highest 25%. This gives investors a better understanding of the spread of values than a simple average, often presented but frequently seriously flawed by outliers. The eleven Real Estate sector companies have been looking better since the beginning of June. The chart shows that only 6 of the 93 Hemp sector companies in the Viridian Database have analyst coverage. To get a better handle on this sector, we look to market-to-book ratios (group median of 0.27x), market-to-tangible book value (median of 0.37x), and EV/ annualized revenues (median of 1.08x). The EV/ annualized revenues doesn’t strike us as crazy, given the multi-year downturn the industry has gone through. Significant uncertainties continue regarding a new farm bill and its potential treatment of non-THC intoxicants like D8. The market-to-book ratios tell us that there are likely to be substantial goodwill and other asset writedowns in the sector.
Our sector trackers include ratios applicable to value companies with no analyst coverage and the more typical EV/ Revenues and EV/ EBITDA measures. For each valuation measure, we present the values for the lowest 25% of companies, the median, and the highest 25%. This gives investors a better understanding of the spread of values than a simple average, often presented but frequently seriously flawed by outliers. The eleven Real Estate sector companies have been looking better since the beginning of June. The chart shows that only 6 of the 93 Hemp sector companies in the Viridian Database have analyst coverage. To get a better handle on this sector, we look to market-to-book ratios (group median of 0.27x), market-to-tangible book value (median of 0.37x), and EV/ annualized revenues (median of 1.08x). The EV/ annualized revenues doesn’t strike us as crazy, given the multi-year downturn the industry has gone through. Significant uncertainties continue regarding a new farm bill and its potential treatment of non-THC intoxicants like D8. The market-to-book ratios tell us that there are likely to be substantial goodwill and other asset writedowns in the sector.
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