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How to buy Aphria stock in Canada

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Buy Aphria (APHA)

Aphria Inc is a drug manufacturers-specialty & generic business based in Canada. Aphria shares (APHA.TO) are listed on the TO and all prices are listed in Canadian Dollars. Aphria employs 1,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around C$601.8 million.

How to buy shares in Aphria

  1. Choose a platform. If you're a beginner, our share-dealing table below can help you choose.
  2. Open your account. You'll need your ID, bank details and national insurance number.
  3. Confirm your payment details. You'll need to fund your account with a bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
  4. Search the platform for stock code: APHA in this case.
  5. Research Aphria shares. The platform should provide the latest information available.
  6. Buy your Aphria shares. It's that simple.

What's in this guide?

  1. Can I buy shares in Aphria?
  2. Aphria shares summary
  3. Compare share dealing platforms
  4. Is Aphria stock a buy or sell?
  5. Can I short Aphria shares?
  6. Are Aphria shares over-valued?
  7. Aphria's financials
  8. How volatile are Aphria shares?
  9. Does Aphria pay a dividend?
  10. Have Aphria shares ever split?
  11. Other common questions

Aphria share price

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

Aphria shares at a glance

Information last updated 2021-03-02.
Latest market closeC$N/A
52-week rangeC$2.65 - C$30.7
50-day moving average C$20.134
200-day moving average C$10.7713
Wall St. target priceC$16.04
PE ratio 57.0833
Dividend yield N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM) C$0.116

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Is it a good time to buy Aphria stock?

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Is Aphria under- or over-valued?

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

Aphria's P/E ratio

Aphria's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 57x. In other words, Aphria shares trade at around 57x recent earnings.

Aphria's EBITDA

Aphria's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is CADC$64.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Aphria's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Aphria financials

Revenue TTM CADC$601.8 million
Operating margin TTM 1.66%
Gross profit TTM CADC$191 million
Return on assets TTM 0.24%
Return on equity TTM -11.82%
Profit margin -36.36%
Book value C$5.975
Market capitalisation CADC$7.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

How to short and sell Aphria shares

  1. Create a CFD or spread betting account.
  2. Search for the stock code. E.g. "APHA.TO"
  3. Choose your position size.
  4. Select "sell" rather than "buy".
  5. Confirm your position and keep tabs on it. You may wish to set limits on your position.

There are currently 11.9 million Aphria shares held short by investors – that's known as Aphria's "short interest". This figure is 14.7% up from 10.4 million last month.

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

Aphria's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Aphria's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Aphria shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Aphria shares traded daily (recently around 9.5 million). Aphria's SIR currently stands at 1.26. In other words for every 100,000 Aphria shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1260 shares are currently held short.

However Aphria's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Aphria shares, or, against the total number of tradable Aphria shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Aphria's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Aphria shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Aphria shares, roughly 0 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Aphria.

Find out more about how you can short Aphria stock.

Aphria share dividends

We're not expecting Aphria to pay a dividend over the next 12 months. However, you can browse other dividend-paying shares in our guide.

Have Aphria's shares ever split?

Aphria's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 8 December 2014. So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Aphria shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Aphria shares which in turn could have impacted Aphria's share price.

Aphria share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Aphria's shares have ranged in value from as little as C$2.65 up to C$30.7. 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 (TO average) beta is 1, while Aphria's is 2.5195. This would suggest that Aphria's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Aphria overview

Aphria Inc. cultivates, processes, produces, markets, distributes, and sells medical cannabis in Canada and internationally. The company offers pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis, adult-use cannabis, and cannabis-derived extracts and derivative cannabis products under the Solei, RIFF, Good Supply, Aphria, P'tite Pof, and Broken Coast brands. It serves patients and consumers through distributors and online. The company is headquartered in Leamington, Canada.

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