The Canadian Pure-Play Licensed Producers (LP) Pot Stock Index was unchanged last week and, while down 17% so far in April, is still +37% YTD. Here are the details by constituent and in comparison to the 4 other cannabis and cannabis-related stock categories munKNEE.com tracks.

LP Pure-Play Pot Stock Index Performance

Given that there was marginal price movement in the index last week (Aurora was the exception as it was up 6.0%) below is a look at how the constituents have performed year-to-date, in descending order:

1. Tilray (TLRY): +106.7%
2. Aphria (APHA): +104.3%
3. Organigram (OGI): +98.5%
4. Hexo (HEXO): +54.3%
5. Cronos (CRON): +18.6%
6. Canopy (CGC): +11.2%
7. Aurora (ACB): 0.5%
8. Rubicon (ROMJF): -13.1%

Measuring Volatility

Beta measures the volatility (the up and down movement) of a stock relative to the overall stock market and serves as a measure of the volatility of a stock compared to others in the same sector. What you see below is the extent of volatility of each stock in our Pure-Play LP Pot Stock Index from most stable to most volatile:

1. Organigram: 0.99 (i.e. historically its stock moves more or less in tandem with the overall stock market)
2. Cronos: 1.73x greater volatility than the average market
3. Hexo: 1.74x
4. Rubicon: 1.75x
5. Canopy Growth: 2.15x
6. Aphria: 2.58x
7. Tilray: 2.79x
8. Aurora: 3.15x

The average beta of the above stocks is 2.11x suggesting that if you’re going to invest in marijuana stocks, even the biggest and most famous names in the sector as noted above, you’ll need to brace for volatility.

munKNEE Pure-Play Cannabis Pot Stock Index Performance Comparisons

munKNEE.com tracks the performance of five (5) cannabis categories and below is a comparison of how each index has performed YTD, and so far in April in brackets, which we think provides the clearest overview of the cannabis stock sector that is available anywhere:

1. the Canadian Pure-Play Licensed Producers Pot Stock Index (9 constituents): +36.7% YTD (-17.0% so far in April)
2. the American Pure-Play Multi-State Operators Pot Stock Index (21 constituents): +28.7% YTD; (-7.6% so far in April)
3. the Ancillary Pot Stocks Index (16 constituents): +12.3% YTD; (-4.4% so far in April)
4. the Conservative Pot Stocks Index (8 constituents): +6.3% YTD; (+3.0% so far in April) and
5. the new Cannabis-Centric Bio-Pharma Companies Index (13 constituents): -1.1% YTD; (-14.1% so far in April) See details of index here.

The above 5 non-tradable indices replicate the performance of a portfolio investing an equal amount of money in each company in the various cannabis categories, with daily rebalancing to maintain an equal weight, to serve as benchmarks to measure the performance of individual stocks compared to their respective index. A sum total of 67 companies are tracked out of an universe of approximately 200 (i.e. 33.5%).