Graham Number is a figure that measures a stock's fundamental value by taking into account the company's earnings per share and book value per share. The Graham number is the upper bound of the price range that a defensive investor should pay for the stock. According to the theory, any stock price below the Graham number is considered undervalued, and thus worth investing in.
As of today (2024-05-05), the stock price of HomeAway is $31.38. HomeAway's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $2.53. Therefore, HomeAway's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 12.40.
The historical rank and industry rank for HomeAway's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
AWAY's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Interactive Media industry.
Industry Median: 1.68 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Graham-Number only.
Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.
HomeAway Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for HomeAway's Graham Number can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of HomeAway's Graham Number
For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, HomeAway's Price-to-Graham-Number, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Graham-Number data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
HomeAway's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry
For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, HomeAway's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where HomeAway's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
HomeAway Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
HomeAway's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
HomeAway (NAS:AWAY) Graham Number Explanation
Ben Graham actually did not publish a formula like this. But he wrote in The Intelligent Investor (1948 version) regarding to the criteria for purchases:
Current price should not be more than 15 times average earnings of the past three years.
Current price should not be more than 1.5 times the book value last reported. However, a multiplier of earnings below 15 could justify a correspondingly higher multiplier of assets. As a rule of thumb we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5. (This figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1.5 times book value. It would admit an issue selling at only 9 times earnings and 2.5 times asset value, etc.)
Unlike valuation methods such as DCF or Discounted Earnings, the Graham number does not take growth into the valuation. Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power. Therefore, the Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation.
In general, the Graham number is a very conservative way of valuing a stock. It cannot be applied to companies with negative book values.
HomeAway's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Sep. 2015 )
=
31.38
/
2.53
=
12.40
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Be Aware
Please keep these in mind:
1. Graham Number does not take growth into account. Therefore it underestimates the values of the companies that have good earnings growth. We feel that if the earnings per share grows more than 10% a year, Graham Number underestimates the value.
2. Graham Number punishes the companies that have temporarily low earnings. Therefore, an average of earnings makes more sense in the calculation of Graham Number.
3. Graham Numbers underestimates companies that are light with book.
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HomeAway, Inc., was incorporated in 2004 as CEH Holdings, Inc. in the State of Delaware. In 2006, the Company changed its name to HomeAway, Inc. The Company operates as an online marketplace for the vacation rental industry. Vacation rentals are fully furnished, privately owned residential properties, including homes, condominiums, villas and cabins that can be rented on a nightly, weekly or monthly basis. The Company's marketplace brings together millions of travelers seeking vacation rentals online with hundreds of thousands of owners and managers of vacation rental properties located in over 145 countries around the world. Its ambition is to make every vacation rental in the world available to every traveler in the world through its online marketplace. The Company's Products and Services includes Paid Listings. Paid listings appear in search results on websites when travelers search for vacation rentals based on location, type of property, size or other characteristics. A paid listing provides the property owner or manager with a set of tools for managing an availability calendar, reservations, inquiries and the content of the listing; Transaction-Based Listings: The Company offers property managers with large inventories of vacation rentals the opportunity to post listings for no initial up-front fees and, instead, charge fees based on the number of inquiries and online reservations that result from their listing on its websites; Property Management Software: Property managers can use Company's enterprise software solutions to manage their businesses, customers and properties. It provides software solutions to property managers under the brand names Escapia, PropertyPlus, V12, Entech and First Resort and offer software tailored to professional. Its strategies to achieve goal includes: Increase the Size of Marketplace by Providing the Online Experience: It intends to build on its market scale by providing the online experience for travelers, property owners and managers. For travelers, the Company will leverage the scale and scope of the current listings on marketplace, the latest web technologies and own innovations in user interface, visual design, features and functionality; Bring More Choice and Value to Property Owners, Managers and Traveler. It derives its revenue from paid listings from its property owners and managers. The Company's customers generally pay for their listings at the beginning of the listing term, and revenue is recognized monthly over the term of the listing, which is generally one year.
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