Stock Underperformers Had Best-Paid Executives: Cannabis Weekly

Compensation highest at Tilray, Acreage, Sunniva, report says
Female executives, directors under-represented in the sector

Different strains of cannabis are displayed for sale at the Harborside dispensary in Oakland, California, U.S., on Monday, March 23, 2020. California's shelter-in-place order vastly expands mandates put in place across the San Francisco Bay Area. It allows people in the most populous U.S. state to leave their homes for needed items like groceries and medicine, while otherwise requiring that they limit their social interactions.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Kristine Owram

May 31, 2020 at 2:00 PM UTC

Updated on

June 1, 2020 at 9:00 AM UTC

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Tilray Inc., Acreage Holdings Inc. and Sunniva Inc. had the highest-paid executives and directors among cannabis companies, according to a new survey by Bedford Consulting Group.

The report examined the compensation of 437 executives and 449 board members at 96 pot firms. The data was collected in October, when the average cannabis share price was about one-third higher than it is today.