Canopy reported another grim quarter, with its $107.9M net revenue down 13% quarter over quarter, and REC sales down 28%–despite the COVID buying surge.
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- The company posted a net loss of $1.33B, largely connected to the cost of shutting down two Tweed facilities in BC. It also wrote off $132M in “obsolete” packaging, dry-flower, and biomass.
Marketwatch - REC revenue for Canopy (including business-to-business transactions) declined 28% from last quarter to $49M.
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Canopy has lost REC market share (from low 20%s to above 15%), and CFO Mike Lee acknowledged “missed opportunities” in not shifting more quickly to value products.
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- CEO David Klein praised competitor Aurora’s Daily Special as “a good product at a really good price.”
Twitter–@jefflagerquist, - The slow rollout of 2.0 products also hobbled revenues.
Financial Post - “Regardless of who’s in the White House,” Klein predicted the US “will have something akin to federal permissibility, maybe in 2022, possibly 2025 at the outside.”
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Canopy’s investment arm Canopy Rivers also announced plans to “optimize its organizational structure, streamline operations, and preserve and maximize cash-on-hand” by cutting expenditures 35%. As part of those cuts, they closed The Rise, the cannabis-business publication the company launched six weeks ago on 4-20.
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