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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YTD Analysis
- YTD capital raises totaled $0.76B, down 16.1% from last year’s $0.91B. From an LTM view, capital raises totaled $2.17B, down 6.4% from the same period in 2024. Debt as a percentage of capital raised on a worldwide basis was 83.9%, compared to 41.6% last year. U.S. raises LTM accounted for 91.3% of total funds, up from 42.4% at the same point in 2024. Raises from outside of Canada and the U.S. represented 5.6% of the total funds raised, in line with the average of 5.33% in the six previous years.
- Public company raises accounted for 78.0% of total raises in the LTM period, the highest since 2021.
- YTD capital raises for the cultivation and retail sector total $436.69M, up 112.2% from last year’s $205.8M. For the LTM period, the capital raised in the cultivation and retail sector was $1,390.21M, 19.9% higher than in 2024, which in turn was up 167% from 2023.
- Debt accounts for 93.6% of the funds raised over the last 12 months (LTM). Large debt issues (>$100M) represented 54.4% of capital raised compared to zero in 2023.
- Cannabis equity prices (as measured by the MSOS ETF) were up 5.66% for the week.
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Capital Raises vs Stock Prices
- Cannabis equity prices (as measured by the MSOS ETF) were up 5.66% for the week.
