I’m extremely bullish on an entire sector for next year: marijuana stocks. And the best way to gain access to that sector is via the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (MJ).
Marijuana stocks have nearly tripled in the last ten months. And while many other growth sectors have risen fast since the February/March coronavirus market crash, cannabis stocks are advancing faster than most—and yet are still trading at less than half their peak values from three years ago.
Did momentum in the cannabis sector slow down during these last three years? No!
Retail sales of medical and recreational cannabis in the U.S. are expected to top $15 billion this year, which would be a 40% improvement from 2019 and a 50% improvement from 2018. In the next four years, legal marijuana sales in the U.S. are expected to triple. And those estimates came before Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota all voted to legalize recreational marijuana use on Election Day last month.
In other words, momentum in the legal marijuana industry never waned in the last three years. Now, it’s clearly accelerating. And as the pandemic and accompanying social distancing and lockdowns rage on, people will be consuming more cannabis products in the coming year, not less. All of that bodes well for marijuana stocks.
Why Buy the Alternative Harvest ETF (MJ)?
I could give you one or two cannabis stocks with good charts and call it a day. Indeed, industry leaders Canopy Growth (CGC), Aphria (APHA) and GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH) are all up. But why not buy an ETF that tracks the price of all the best marijuana stocks—those three stocks are the Alternative Harvest ETF’s top three holdings.
With marijuana ETFs, you take on less risk than if you try and pick one or two marijuana stocks. Because the industry is still in its adolescence, individual companies can be unpredictable and, as a result, volatile. If you pick the wrong cannabis stock, it can do damage to your portfolio. However, by picking a basket of marijuana stocks, at a time when the group as a whole is priced nearly 60% below its peak from three years ago despite the prospect of tripling sales by 2024, you’re betting on the marijuana sector as a whole, not just one stock.
And the Alternative Harvest ETF – the first marijuana ETF in the U.S., and the largest—gives you the safest, most reliable access to this exploding industry.
The Alternative Harvest ETF (MJ) is down for the year, but up more than 60% since March. I’m betting it won’t be down again in 2021; I think it will be way up. This a great entry point into what I believe will be the hottest industry next year – and beyond.