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Lords Group Trading (LSE:LORD) Graham Number : £0.28 (As of Jun. 2023)


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What is Lords Group Trading 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 (2024-05-12), the stock price of Lords Group Trading is £0.49. Lords Group Trading's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was £0.28. Therefore, Lords Group Trading's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.73.

The historical rank and industry rank for Lords Group Trading's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:LORD' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.75   Med: 3.36   Max: 3.68
Current: 1.75

During the past 5 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Lords Group Trading was 3.68. The lowest was 1.75. And the median was 3.36.

LSE:LORD's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
76.07% of 117 companies
in the Industrial Distribution industry
Industry Median: 0.84 vs LSE:LORD: 1.75

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


Lords Group Trading Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lords Group Trading'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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Lords Group Trading Graham Number Chart

Lords Group Trading Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Graham Number
0.02 - - 0.37 0.24

Lords Group Trading Semi-Annual Data
Dec18 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only - 0.37 0.20 0.24 0.28

Competitive Comparison of Lords Group Trading's Graham Number

For the Industrial Distribution subindustry, Lords Group Trading'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.


Lords Group Trading's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Industrial Distribution Industry

For the Industrial Distribution industry and Industrials sector, Lords Group Trading's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lords Group Trading's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Lords Group Trading Graham Number Calculation

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

Lords Group Trading's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.034*0.076)
=0.24

Lords Group Trading's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.049*0.073)
=0.28

* 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.


Lords Group Trading  (LSE:LORD) 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.

Lords Group Trading's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jun. 2023 )
=0.49/0.28
=1.73

* 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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Lords Group Trading (LSE:LORD) Business Description

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Address
12-15 Hanger Green, 2nd Floor, London, GBR, W5 3EL
Lords Group Trading PLC is a distributor of building, plumbing, heating, and DIY goods. The group principally sells to local tradesmen, small to medium-sized plumbing and heating merchants, construction companies and retails directly to the public. Its operating two divisions include Merchanting: supplies building materials and DIY goods through its network of merchant businesses and online platform capabilities; Heating and Plumbing: a distributor in the UK of heating and plumbing products to a UK network of independent merchants, installers and the general public. It focused on the growing Repairs, Maintenance, and Improvement (RMI) market, and construction market. Its main clients are local tradesmen, hardware stores, plumbing and heating merchants and construction companies.

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