I listened to the conference call and my honest opinions are
Pro's
With expansion and the acquisitions they made the have a 20% market share in Canada right now.
The global reach they have established and are continuing to grow
They are not diluting the stock any further.
And the biggest one for me is they expect to be cash flow positive Q4 2019 and they have said before they intend to buy back company stock.
Con's
I dont recall hearing much if anything about moving into the U.S. or hemp.
And obviously the shrinking margins and large losses. The bad part of acquiring so many companies is that they now have to report their loses under Aurora. I think they said $160 million was lost by "the green organic dutchmen" which they own.
And words from the CC on the loses
The decrease [in gross margin] was primarily due to a lower average selling price per gram of dried cannabis, the impact of excise taxes on medical cannabis net revenues, and a temporarily lower proportion of cannabis oil sales in the company’s sales mix ratio. Also impacting gross margin were increased packaging requirements under the Cannabis Act and one-time ramp-up and optimization costs as our Sky facility was brought up to full production,”
They also dont charge the excise tax to their customers, which from my understanding is a tax on medical marijuana which Aurora is against so they have to pay the tax netting the losses. Going forward management has to do better at managing cost. Im still long Aurora and buying it if does dip low.
Tilray and Cronos report tomorrow