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GHP Specialty Care AB (CHIX:GHPS) Graham Number : kr5.03 (As of Mar. 2022)


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What is GHP Specialty Care AB 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 (2024-05-23), the stock price of GHP Specialty Care AB is kr34.30. GHP Specialty Care AB's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was kr5.03. Therefore, GHP Specialty Care AB's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 6.82.

The historical rank and industry rank for GHP Specialty Care AB's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

CHIX:GHPs' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.75   Med: 5.65   Max: 12.4
Current: 5.69

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of GHP Specialty Care AB was 12.40. The lowest was 3.75. And the median was 5.65.

CHIX:GHPs's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry.
Industry Median: 2.13 vs CHIX:GHPs: 5.69

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


GHP Specialty Care AB Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for GHP Specialty Care AB'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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GHP Specialty Care AB Graham Number Chart

GHP Specialty Care AB Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - - 4.89 5.11

GHP Specialty Care AB Quarterly Data
Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22
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 6.00 5.42 5.26 5.11 5.03

Competitive Comparison of GHP Specialty Care AB's Graham Number

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, GHP Specialty Care AB'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.


GHP Specialty Care AB's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, GHP Specialty Care AB's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where GHP Specialty Care AB's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



GHP Specialty Care AB Graham Number Calculation

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

GHP Specialty Care AB's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*1.489*0.78)
=5.11

GHP Specialty Care AB's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*1.756*0.64)
=5.03

* 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.


GHP Specialty Care AB  (CHIX:GHPs) 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.

GHP Specialty Care AB's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2022 )
=34.30/5.03
=6.82

* 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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GHP Specialty Care AB (CHIX:GHPS) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Södra Hamngatan 45, Gothenburg, SWE, 411 06
GHP Specialty Care AB is a player in the healthcare sector. It is a Swedish health care provider that operates specialist clinics, primarily in the Nordic countries. GHP's clinics address various medical areas such as diabetes care, neurology, general surgery, sports medicine and arrhythmia. GHP has two segments, the Nordic Region and International. The company generates majority of its revenue from the Nordic Region. The Nordic Region business area conducts business within specialist care, such as spine surgery/spine care, orthopaedics, obesity surgery and diabetes care, gastroenterology, urology, general surgery, arrhythmia, sports medicine, plastic surgery, neurology and specialist dentistry via over 20 clinics.

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