New Listings Slow to Trickle as Borrowing Rises: Cannabis Weekly
- Reverse takeovers fall from 51% to 14% of CSE deal activity
- ‘I think the market is shut for the smaller guys,’ banker says
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The slump in pot stocks hasn’t affected the amount of financing activity in the space this year, but it’s had a dramatic impact on the type of deals being done.
The Canadian Securities Exchange, which lists 173 cannabis stocks, closed 614 financings worth C$2.47 billion ($1.88 billion) through September compared with 622 worth C$2.57 billion for the same period last year. Of the money raised, 78% went to pot companies, unchanged from last year.