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BioPharma Credit (LSE:BPCR) Graham Number : $1.75 (As of Dec. 2022)


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What is BioPharma Credit 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 (2024-05-27), the stock price of BioPharma Credit is $0.846. BioPharma Credit's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was $1.75. Therefore, BioPharma Credit's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.48.

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

LSE:BPCR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.54   Med: 0.77   Max: 0.84
Current: 0.61

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of BioPharma Credit was 0.84. The lowest was 0.54. And the median was 0.77.

LSE:BPCR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
70.1% of 1137 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs LSE:BPCR: 0.61

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


BioPharma Credit Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for BioPharma Credit'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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BioPharma Credit Graham Number Chart

BioPharma Credit Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 1.43 1.21 1.18 1.75 1.39

BioPharma Credit Semi-Annual Data
Jun17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.24 1.18 1.35 1.75 1.39

Competitive Comparison of BioPharma Credit's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, BioPharma Credit'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.


BioPharma Credit's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, BioPharma Credit's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



BioPharma Credit Graham Number Calculation

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

BioPharma Credit'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*1.029*0.083)
=1.39

BioPharma Credit's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*1.014*0.134)
=1.75

* 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.


BioPharma Credit  (LSE:BPCR) 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.

BioPharma Credit's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2022 )
=0.846/1.75
=0.48

* 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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BioPharma Credit (LSE:BPCR) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
65 Gresham Street, 6th Floor, London, GBR, EC2V 7NQ
BioPharma Credit PLC is an investment company. The investment objective of the company is to generate long-term shareholder returns predominantly in the form of sustainable income distributions from exposure to the life sciences industry. The only reporting segment of the company is the investment in debt assets secured by royalties or other cash flows derived from the sale of approved life sciences products. The company generates revenue in the form of interest income, income from subsidiaries, royalty revenue, make-whole and prepayment income, dividends, and paydown fees. The company earns a majority of its revenue from Investment income.

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