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Monday, October 22, 2018 11:24:28 PM
Brace for ‘Scary Down Days’ in Pot Stocks, Fund Manager Warns
By Kristine Owram
September 13, 2018
The StoneCastle Cannabis Growth mutual fund launches on Friday
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The manager of a new Canadian mutual fund focused exclusively on marijuana has some advice for investors: Get ready for some more “scary down days.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a steep, sharp pullback, which will scare all the people that got in late, have a little bit of consolidation and then we start the next phase up,” said Bruce Campbell, founder of StoneCastle Investment Management Inc., which has about C$150 million ($115 million) in assets.
The Kelowna, British Columbia-based firm, together with Toronto-based Spartan Fund Management Inc., are launching the StoneCastle Cannabis Growth Fund on Friday, a month before Canada legalizes recreational weed. The actively managed fund will use technical analysis to track momentum in the sector. It will invest in cultivators as well as ancillary businesses such as retailers, delivery and testing systems and real estate.
Cannabis stocks have been red hot since mid-August, when Canopy Growth Corp. announced a C$5 billion investment from Constellation Brands Inc., the biggest deal in the sector to date. The BI Canada Cannabis Competitive Peers index has added nearly 50 percent since then, while other stocks have posted even more outsized gains. Tilray Inc. has soared more than 600 percent since its July IPO. The stock rallied as much as 21 percent in New York Thursday, pushing its market value past $10 billion. It has added about $4 billion since Friday’s close alone.
Campbell said he prefers smaller companies, which haven’t risen as much as their bigger peers, and is looking for a mix of Canadian and U.S. exposure. The fund’s holdings will include Valens Groworks Corp., Sunniva Inc., C21 Investments Inc., CannTrust Holdings Inc. and Organigram Holdings Inc.
While Campbell acknowledged that pot-stock valuations are “off the charts,” he said there still will be companies that do “phenomenally well.”
“You’ve got to watch that valuation, you’ve got to figure out what’s reasonable and then continue to track it over time and see whether they’re actually proving that they’re working towards those goals or is it sort of a pie-in-the sky dream?” he said. “Because there will be a day when the market wakes up and says, ‘Whoa, hold on. We’re paying way too much for this’ and the sector all goes down and some of it will never recover.”
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