Tilray expected to grow sales sequentially but remain in the red

Tilray’s results volition beryllium followed by updates successful coming weeks from different Canadian companies specified arsenic Canopy Growth Corp. CGC, -1.31%, Cronos Group CRON, +0.00% and Aurora Cannabis ACB, -0.72% ACB, -0.37% ; arsenic good arsenic U.S. companies specified arsenic Curaleaf CURLF, +0.90% CURA, +0.50%, Trulieve Cannabis Corp. TCNNF, +0.82% and Green Thumb Industries GTBIF, -2.56% GTII, -2.13%.

Analysts person been increasing much bearish connected Tilray’s prospects successful caller months amid terms unit and marketplace stock losses to smaller rivals.

Since October, analysts person reduced their outlook for Tilray a full of 20 times, compared to 21 unchanged estimates and six instances of accrued estimates, according to FactSet.

Despite the dimmer presumption connected profits, Tilray’s income proceed to grow. The institution is expected to study $173.7 cardinal successful income for the 2nd quarter, up from $168 cardinal successful the archetypal quarter. The archetypal 4th effect fell abbreviated of Wall Street’s $172.6 cardinal estimate.

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Year-ago figures are not comparable for Tilray, fixed the interaction of its acquisition of Aphria, which closed successful May 2021.

Alliance Global Partners expert Aaron Grey said Tuesday that Tilray and different Canadian producers benefitted from a 7.8% maturation implicit the erstwhile period to C$369 million. Industrywide income accrued by 32% implicit the year-ago figure.

“Pricing unit successful the marketplace continued arsenic each merchandise class with the objection of beverages and oil,” Grey said

Tilray, which continues to beryllium the marketplace stock person successful Canada, mislaid 115 ground points of marketplace stock to 10.8%.

Amid expert moves successful caller weeks connected Tilray, Bill Kirk of MKM Partners connected Dec. 10 chopped his just worth terms people connected Tilray to $10 a stock from $16 and reiterated a neutral standing connected the company.

Canopy Growth CGC, -1.31%, the portion of Constellation Brands STZ, -1.35% that operates successful the Canadian market, mislaid astir 100 ground points successful marketplace share.

All told, the apical 5 Canadian cannabis companies led by Tilray held 43.9% marketplace stock successful December compared to 46% successful November. Top 5 subordinate OrganiGram Holdings OGI marked the lone objection among the bigger players by expanding its marketplace stock by 35 ground points to 7.6%.

Canadian companies extracurricular the apical 5 accrued their marketplace stock by a combined 210 ground points. Among those, Village Farms VFF, -2.01% gained 35 ground points of marketplace stock to a full of 6.4%.

Overall, shares of Tilray and different cannabis companies person been anemic fixed the oversupply dynamics successful the Canadian market, combined with a simplification successful immoderate economical enactment owed to COVID-19.

The Cannabis ETF THCX, +0.61% is present trading astatine astir $8.19, down from astir $12.50 3 months ago. The scale has been impacted by a deficiency of enactment connected legalization connected the national beforehand successful the U.S., adjacent arsenic respective ample states specified arsenic New York and Illinois proceed to standard up their ineligible cannabis business.

For its part, Tilray shares person sunk to beneath $7 a stock aft trading astatine astir $11 3 months ago.

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