Tag: Aphria
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Five distressed weed companies fired their CEOs – did it help? (OGI.T, ASNT.C, APHA.T, N.V, WEED.T)
Winning sports teams rarely fire their managers. Losing ones always do. Sometimes a new manager can reverse the fortunes of a losing team. Example: When $3.1 billion Manchester United fired its pompous toxic manager, Jose Mourinho, in December 2018, the club was in a woeful 6th place – having lost 45% of its games that season. After…
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CannTrust (TRST.T): If you’re buying the bounce, you’re playing a dangerous game
Cannabis investors are a different breed. They’re amped way higher on positivity, cynicism, self belief, and sorrow, prone to the sort of mania that baseball card, Cabbage Patch Kid, and tulip enthusiasts know in their plums. When cannabis investors love a stock, there’s almost no amount of negative due diligence, blown up market cap, or…
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UPDATE: CannTrust (TRST.T) should lose license over illegal pot growing/shipping scandal
The precedent has been set. When Ascent Industries (ASNT.C) lost its Canadian LP licensing over product that had allegedly found its way into the grey market, the regulators at Health Canada – rightly – didn’t hold back. They investigated publicly, loudly, and ultimately de-licensed the company, running the brains trust out of town on a…
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Growing Gurus: ESG, ethical investing and shareholder activism
So you want to be an ethical investor, but soulless multinationals like Exxon Mobil and Walmart have you put off from the capital markets. If this is you, know you’re not alone. But, dear investor, herein lies a problem: large successful companies, the safest stocks to invest in, are the most, for lack of a…
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Shell Game: How Wayland Group (WAYL.C) built a paper empire and the loan that may drag it under
PROLOGUE: Cannabis companies, as we know them in our minds, rarely exist. Oh sure, some have buildings and staff, some grow things and others might even have a license. But even those with big buildouts and massive market caps are, for the most part, a promise of what’s to come, maybe, some time, kinda. But…
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We told you so: Aphria (APHA.T) and Green Growth Brands (GGB) terminate bullshit takeover bid
In the days earlier this year, when it became clear from a short seller report that Aphria (APHA.T) had bought into foreign assets that were largely ‘early stage’ if you were being charitable, and ‘fake’ if you weren’t, the company went through four stages of denial. The takeover bid was bullshit from the outset, a…
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Aphria (APHA.T) puts out financial results, falls on face, walks into pole
Well, I guess we were right, huh? Big Canadian cannabis producer Aphria (APHA.T), fresh off a scandal involving allegations from the short sellers the company was overpaying for garbage assets their top execs part owned, released their first financials today since the scandal broke. It was so unpretty, interested observers had to get through the…
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Aphria (APHA.T) ‘Special Committee’ confirms short seller conflict of interest allegations
Several months ago, Aphria (APHA.T) lost a good chunk of its worth when short sellers accused the company executive and board of (in a nutshell) feathering their own nests by agreeing to acquire properties from themselves, for much inflated prices. Today, after a ridiculously long wait which involved the CEO stepping sideways from his position…
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Xmas news dump: Aphria (APHA.T) subject to ‘unfriendly’ takeover by company CEO advises
This Aphria (APHA.T) story just keeps getting richer, and the unbelievable lack of respect this company is giving the market and regulators is a sight to behold. Let’s recap the last few weeks: So now we’re into the dead days of the 2018 market, just after Christmas and right before New Year, when few are…
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Enough is enough: Time for Aphria’s (APHA.T) CEO Vic Neufeld to resign or be fired
It’s time to end the charade. Canadian licensed cannabis producer Aphria (APHA.T) has long been considered one of the ‘big three’ in the North American scene, which helped them benefit from institutional investment, pension fund allocations, and ETF involvement, and contributed to a long rising market cap that topped out in January 2017 at around $5…
