Debra Borchardt
The NASDAQ Markets Group (NDAQ) has been notoriously reluctant to list any cannabis related companies, even if they are only ancillary and not plant-touching. It seems vape distributor Greenlane Holdings Inc. has broken through the company’s barriers.
Greenlane will begin trading on NASDAQ today with the ticker GNLN after upsizing its initial public offering of six million shares with the offering price of $17. The company had expected to price the shares between $14-$16.
According to the company, Greenlane is offering 5,250,000 shares and the selling stockholders are offering 750,000 shares. In addition, the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 900,000 shares of Class A common stock. The offering is expected to close on April 23, 2019, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Greenlane Revenue
Greenlane recorded net sales of $178 million in 2018 and a 102% increase over the $88 million in 2017. The cost of sales in 2018 was $143 million. Still, the company reported a net loss of $6.4 million in 2018.
A significant percentage of the company’s revenue is dependent on sales that it purchases from a small number of key suppliers, including PAX Labs and JUUL Labs. For example, products manufactured by PAX Labs represented approximately 15.6% and 29.4% of Greenlane’s net sales in 2018 and 2017, respectively, and products manufactured by JUUL Labs represented approximately 36.5% and 11.4% of its net sales 2018 and 2017, respectively.
Greenlane shipped over 16.0 million product units to its B2B customers in 2018 compared to over 2.0 million product units to its B2B customers in the fiscal year 2016, representing a growth rate of approximately 687.3%. The company grew its employee headcount from 89 employees as of January 1, 2016, to 256 employees as of December 31, 2018.
Greenlane Chain
Greenlane’s customers include over 6,600 independent smoke shops and regional retail chain stores, which collectively operate approximately 9,700 retail locations, and hundreds of licensed cannabis cultivators, processors and dispensaries. Greenlane also owns and operates two of the most visited North American direct-to-consumer e-commerce websites in the vaporization products and consumption accessories industry, VaporNation.com and VapeWorld.com, which offer convenient, flexible shopping solutions directly to consumers. Greenlane is developing a unique e-commerce platform, Vapor.com, into which its existing e-commerce websites will be consolidated.
