Topic: How To Invest

Q: Pat what do you think of marijuana stock Aphria Inc.? Thanks.

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A: Aphria Inc., $5.00, symbol APH on the TSX Venture Exchange (Shares outstanding: 98.6 million; Market cap: $493.0 million; www.aphria.com), is a licensed producer of medical marijuana based in Leamington, Ontario. Not only does it sell to retail patients, it also sells to other Canadian licensed producers. Aphria currently operates 43,000 square feet of medical marijuana greenhouses. It will spend $10 million to expand to 100,000 square feet in early 2017. Once that capital project is completed, the company’s yearly capacity will increase from 2,500 kilograms of dried cannabis to 5,500. In 2018, it aims to add another 200,000 square feet of growing space at a cost of $24.5 million. That would bring capacity up to 18,000 kilograms of dried cannabis annually. In addition to these two expansion projects, Aphria owns 28 acres in the Leamington area that can be built out at $55 per square foot in 2019 or beyond. The company’s management team is led by CEO Vic Neufeld. He was…