How to buy Cronos Group stock | 6.07

Cronos Group Inc is a drug manufacturers—specialty & generic business based in the US. Cronos Group shares (CRON) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Cronos Group employs 631 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$31.4 million.

How to buy shares in Cronos Group

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Cronos Group. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: CRON. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Cronos Group reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$6.07, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Cronos Group, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Cronos Group. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Cronos Group's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Cronos Group's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$6.07, which is 15.10% down on its pre-crash value of USD$7.15 and 51.75% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$4.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Cronos Group shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$718.08 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$851.32.

Cronos Group share price

Use our graph to track the performance of CRON stocks over time.

Cronos Group shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$6.07
52-week range	USD$4.43 - USD$9.19
50-day moving average	USD$5.3386
200-day moving average	USD$5.9419
Wall St. target price	N/A
PE ratio	2.6143
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.952

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Is it a good time to buy Cronos Group stock?

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Cronos Group price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $6.07 from 2020-10-22

1 week (2020-10-22)	6.07
1 month (2020-09-29)	20.20%
3 months (2020-07-29)	-10.07%
6 months (2020-04-29)	-2.57%

1 year (2019-10-29)	-27.48%
2 years (2018-10-29)	-10.74%
3 years (2017-10-27)	147.73%
5 years (2015-10-25)	N/A

Is Cronos Group under- or over-valued?

Valuing Cronos Group stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Cronos Group's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Cronos Group's P/E ratio

Cronos Group's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 3x. In other words, Cronos Group shares trade at around 3x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Cronos Group financials

Revenue TTM	USD$31.4 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$-15,964,000
Return on assets TTM	-5.46%
Return on equity TTM	48.76%
Profit margin	2023.3%
Book value	$4.759
Market capitalisation	USD$2 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Cronos Group shares

There are currently 48.9 million Cronos Group shares held short by investors – that's known as Cronos Group's "short interest". This figure is 1.2% down from 49.5 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Cronos Group shares can be evaluated.

Cronos Group's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Cronos Group's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Cronos Group shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Cronos Group shares traded daily (recently around 2.6 million). Cronos Group's SIR currently stands at 19.17. In other words for every 100,000 Cronos Group shares traded daily on the market, roughly 19170 shares are currently held short.

However Cronos Group's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Cronos Group shares, or, against the total number of tradable Cronos Group shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Cronos Group's short interest could be expressed as 0.14% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Cronos Group shares in existence, roughly 140 shares are currently held short) or 0.2707% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Cronos Group shares, roughly 271 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against Cronos Group.

Find out more about how you can short Cronos Group stock.

Cronos Group share dividends

We're not expecting Cronos Group to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Cronos Group share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Cronos Group's shares have ranged in value from as little as $4.43 up to $9.19. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Cronos Group's is 1.7539. This would suggest that Cronos Group's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Cronos Group overview

Cronos Group Inc. operates as a cannabinoid company in the United States and internationally. It manufactures, markets, and distributes hemp-derived supplements and cosmetic products through ecommerce, retail, and hospitality partner channels. The company is also involved in the cultivation, manufacture, and marketing of cannabis and cannabis-derived products for the medical and adult-use markets. Its brand portfolio includes PEACE NATURALS, a global wellness platform; adult-use brands comprise COVE and Spinach; and hemp-derived CBD brands consists of Lord Jones and PEACE+. Cronos Group Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Cronos Group is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 45.427% of Cronos Group shares are held by insiders and 17.504% by institutions.

• How many people work for Cronos Group?

  Latest data suggests 631 work at Cronos Group.

• When does the fiscal year end for Cronos Group?

  Cronos Group's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Cronos Group based?

  Cronos Group's address is: 720 King Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5V 2T3

• What is Cronos Group's CUSIP number?

  Cronos Group's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 226903102