Sundial Growers: Canaccord Raises Price Target Due To Strong Balance Sheet
Sundial Growers (NASDAQ: SNDL) reported its second quarter financial results on August 12. The company announced net revenues of $9.15 million, slightly lower than their $9.89 million first quarter revenue. The company, once again, had negative gross margins as the company’s cost of sales was $9.5 million. The company had a flat Adjusted EBITDA number, down from the $3.3 million in the first quarter but they did postan improved net loss.
One of the 5 analysts that cover the firm increased their 12-month price target on Sundial, bringing the consensus average up to $0.69, from $0.60. Out of the 5 analysts, 4 have hold ratings and 1 has a sell rating. The street high sits at $0.80 from ATB Capital Markets, while the lowest comes in at $0.45.
Canaccord Genuity was the single firm to raise its 12-month price target. They raised it to $0.75 from $0.70 and reiterated their hold rating on the name saying that the cannabis operations remained flat while its investments are starting to bear fruit.
For the second quarter, Sundial’s top-line game was in line with Canaccord’s estimates while everything else basically missed. For the top-line, Canaccord says that this shows that Canada is still in a challenging operating environment but the revenue beat shows that Sundial is making headway into transitioning to higher-margin products rather than the value segment.
For specific revenue segments, Sundial’s oil segment grew 60%, while its vape segment dropped 70%. Management has reiterated their plan of grabbing core/premium segments with a new 22%+ THC strain releasing by the end of the year. Canaccord says, “We continue to believe that management’s decision to limit discount offerings (a segment that continues to capture a majority of the market) will negatively impact brand awareness in the short term.”
The company ended the quarter with $760 million in total cash and equivalents. This sets the company up to keep on finding attractive investments, which has earned the company $3.7 million of net profits.
Below you can see Canaccord’s updated full year 2021 and 2022 estimates.
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