Anheuser-Busch mini

Anheuser-Busch and I believe this is one that you were taking a look at isn't it? Yeah so Anheuser-Busch decides to sell eight of their craft beer brands to a cannabis company right? Tilray right? Yeah Tilray brand so it you know it looks a little bit stranger than what it really is right? So people are thinking like oh Anheuser's trying to get some money after the decline with with the issue with the Bud Light cans and and the truth is is that Tilray has an ambition to be a alcohol beverage brand along with being a cannabis brand so not only can you get stoned you can get drunk too all on their stuff. So maybe they can do like a pack right? Two in one pack. Spin but don't puke. You get a joint and a can of beer. It's like a can of beer with a joint take to the side of it right? Yeah but interestingly enough I don't know how that will work because federally in the United States it's completely illegal. That might work in Canada where it's federally legal in other places but Tilray in 2020 merged with a company called the Epherea which was a medical cannabis company but they also owned Sweetwater Brewing out of Atlanta and so the new CEO of this company decided that he wanted to make a strategic move towards acquiring alcohol beverage companies along with being a cannabis player and in the United States it makes a lot of sense to me when I started to really break it down I said how do you get over the the hump of being a world of well-being. I mean maybe for the medical marijuana but getting stoned and getting drunk. Yeah I mean it makes people feel better whatever just like drinking alcohol. It's all the same. Leo well-being. Yeah it's all the same around but fundamentally it's interesting because in the United States you have all these restrictions against cannabis advertising becoming popular each state has its own laws and regulations but you have Tilray which alcohol is completely legalized across the board so now they the purchases to become an alcohol player but everybody also knows they're a cannabis brand so it's the ultimate way to market your cannabis company on a national scale so as I looked at this a little bit more I was like this is pretty pretty interesting so with the companies that they're buying from Anheuser-Busch they're buying like all their craft brands so it's you know Shock Top, Breckenridge Brewery, Blue Point Brewing, Ten Barrel Brewing, Red Hook Brewery, Wildmer Brothers Brewing, Square Mile Cider and Highball Energy. None of those brands are really recognizable on a national level except maybe Shock Top and Shock Top kind of lost its momentum here in the last 10 years so it's really interesting to think about like they've now positioned themselves to be the fifth largest brewing company in the United States when it comes to craft brew this Tilray Cannabis company so yeah it's it's smart when I really look at it from from a marketing advantage point for the cannabis world it's really smart get into the alcohol business the federal the federal government in the United States will allow it to be profitable allow it to be you know monetized publicly across all platforms you're able to leverage lending which you can't do in the cannabis industry right now there's it also might help help them attract investment and it'll probably stabilize their stock as well because Tilray I remember back in the day of like the whole meme stocks and stuff when we got out of meme stocks it went to pot stocks right and a lot of money flowed in there from retail investors and Tilray stock was just wild right it was like a it was like a roller coaster for a while up and down and stuff and you know I think with with alcohol as well it's gonna stabilize the company because you could get invest it's more mainstream you know it's not something that could get banned all of a sudden or you know new regulations coming in and stuff and so I think it's yeah it's probably a good move yeah so they're you know international company they have a lot of operations they Tilray brought in 600 and something million dollars last year in 2022 so they're they're approaching that billion dollar mark in Canada they're the number one in flower oils and concentrates number two and three rolls number four and vapes so they're top ten and all the major cannabis consumer in indexes in Canada and they have a 13% of the entire market in Canada so they're substantially large but they also had a one called the green flash and alpine which were brewing companies that they purchased in 2022 that are based out of San Diego for 5.1 million so now they're it's expected that they're gonna pay 85 million for these eight micro brands from Budweiser so so really Budweiser's not getting any more capital that they lost I mean 85 million isn't that much compared to the size of the company is it so so maybe it's not really so much of a link to the dilemma of any stuff although everyone thinks it is but that's what I mean so it's not really linked to that I think fundamentally gave them a lot of publicity especially till radio in this but I like no one in there we wouldn't be talking about this unless we had the previous conversations of them using losing billions of dollars on that's true isn't it yeah it's given till right a lot of good press yeah so so they're taking advantage of it right time right price right place so good for them and you know it's good to see that they're gonna move forward with that but they also you know 85 million dollars for a company whose revenue is 600 millions a significant amount of money so we'll see how the stock turns out but I would say I would put this company at the cutting edge of all of the cannabis brands worldwide would you buy would you say it's a buy not financial advice but for you yeah yeah for me it's I was already contemplating whether or not I was gonna buy it it's at two dollars and sixty three cents a share right now I think it's a long-term hold yeah it's not a swing trade it's not a day trade it is a year over year hold I have swing traded it in the past but yeah I probably would be open to buying it as well yeah but I wouldn't even try to swing trade this and who knows this this deal might fall through you know they have an agreement they're supposed to settle on it by the end of September let's see if they have the cash you know who knows what the real financials look like until they have to report them next year