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Colony Bankcorp (Colony Bankcorp) Graham Number : $20.21 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Colony Bankcorp Graham Number?

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 (2024-04-30), the stock price of Colony Bankcorp is $11.07. Colony Bankcorp's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $20.21. Therefore, Colony Bankcorp's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.55.

The historical rank and industry rank for Colony Bankcorp's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

CBAN' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.61   Med: 0.77   Max: 1.01
Current: 0.61

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Colony Bankcorp was 1.01. The lowest was 0.61. And the median was 0.77.

CBAN's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
63.07% of 1373 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.63 vs CBAN: 0.61

Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.


Colony Bankcorp Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Colony Bankcorp'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.

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Colony Bankcorp Graham Number Chart

Colony Bankcorp Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 18.84 19.56 22.76 16.76 18.26

Colony Bankcorp Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 16.04 17.11 17.36 20.21 20.54

Competitive Comparison of Colony Bankcorp's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Colony Bankcorp'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.


Colony Bankcorp's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Colony Bankcorp's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Colony Bankcorp's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Colony Bankcorp Graham Number Calculation

Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.

Colony Bankcorp's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*11.49*1.29)
=18.26

Colony Bankcorp's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*11.49*1.59)
=20.27

* 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.


Colony Bankcorp  (NAS:CBAN) 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.

Colony Bankcorp's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=11.07/20.27
=0.55

* 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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Colony Bankcorp (Colony Bankcorp) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
115 South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, GA, USA, 31750
Colony Bankcorp Inc is a bank holding company. The bank provides a broad range of banking services to its retail and commercial customers. Its product line includes loans to small and medium-sized businesses, residential and commercial construction and land development loans, commercial real estate loans, agri-business and production loans, residential mortgage loans, consumer loans, and a variety of demand, savings, and time deposit products. The company's segments include banking, mortgage banking, and small business specialty lending division. It generates maximum revenue from the banking segment.
Executives
Harold Wyatt director 115 S GRANT STREET, P. O. BOX 989, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Matthew D. Reed director 115 S. GRANT ST., P.O. BOX 989, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Lee Bagwell officer: Executive VP 1000 LEE AVENUE, DOUGLAS GA 31533
Bateman Leonard H Jr officer: EVP & Chief Credit Officer 101 CALUMET CENTER ROAD, LAGRANGE GA 30241
Audrey Hollingsworth director 115 S GRANT STREET, P O BOX 989, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Scott Lowell Downing director 238 NEWCOMER TRAIL, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Kimberly C. Dockery officer: Exec. Chief Admin Officer P.O. BOX 920, LEESBURG GA 31763
T Heath Fountain director, officer: President and CEO C/O COLONY BANKCORP, INC., 115 S. GRANT ST. P.O. BOX 989, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Copeland R Dallis Jr officer: President 115 S GRANT STREET, P O BOX 989, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Hoyle M. Edward Jr. officer: Chief Banking Officer, EVP 115 SOUTH GRANT STREET, FITZGERALD GA 31750
David Andrew Borrmann officer: EVP P.O. BOX 17465, GREENVILLE SC 29606
Meagan M. Mowry director 115 S GRANT ST., P.O. BOX 989, FITZGERALD GA 31750
Brian D Schmitt director, other: Executive Vice Chairman 115 S GRANT STREET, FITZGERALD GA 31750
M Frederick Dwozan director 718 MEDICAL CENTER DRIVE, EASTMAN GA 31023-6736
Loomis Edward Percy Jr director 115 S GRANT STREET, FITZGERALD GA 31750