Globe says Village Farms International kept at "buy"
2019-04-03 08:16 ET - In the News
The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that Beacon Securities analyst Doug Cooper nearly doubled his share target for Village Farms International ($20.04) in the wake of Monday's announcement that its 50-per-cent-owned joint venture, Pure Sun Farms, has exercised its option on the existing 1.1-million-square-foot Delta 2 greenhouse facility in Delta, B.C. The Globe's David Leeder writes in the Eye On Equities column that Mr. Cooper says in a note: "This will double the size of PSF's footprint ... to 2.2 million square feet. We believe this catapults PSF to top-3 status in terms of scale of all of the Canadian LP's in terms of domestic capacity. As a reminder, PSF also has an option on D1 (2.4 million SF), which is available until Sept. 28, 2021. If that is optioned, we believe PSF will be the largest Canadian LP and could ultimately have 30-40-per-cent market share in Canada." With an unchanged "buy" rating,
Mr. Cooper hiked his share target to $60 from $32. Analysts on average target the shares at $41.25. Mr. Cooper adds, "In terms of total production, our recent site visit confirmed that PSF is currently on a 50-55,000 kilogram run-rate (making it one of, if not the largest Canadian producer."
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