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Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund) Graham Number : $27.93 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund 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 (2024-05-16), the stock price of Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund is $14.86. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $27.93. Therefore, Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.53.

The historical rank and industry rank for Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

AFT' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.47   Med: 0.74   Max: 1.58
Current: 0.53

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund was 1.58. The lowest was 0.47. And the median was 0.74.

AFT's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
81.16% of 1136 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.77 vs AFT: 0.53

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


Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund'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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Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Graham Number Chart

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 26.19 9.14 21.68 - 27.95

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Semi-Annual Data
Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 21.66 - - 23.50 27.93

Competitive Comparison of Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund'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.


Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund'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*15.031*2.31)
=27.95

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund'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*15.031*2.307)
=27.93

* 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.


Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund  (NYSE:AFT) 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.

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=14.86/27.93
=0.53

* 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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Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
9 West 57th Street, New York, NY, USA, 10019
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc.is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek current income and preservation of capital by investing in senior, secured loans made to companies whose debt is rated below investment grade and investments with similar economic characteristics. Senior loans typically hold a first lien priority and pay floating rates of interest, generally quoted as a spread over a reference floating rate benchmark. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its managed assets (which includes leverage) in floating rate senior loans and investments with similar economic characteristics.
Executives
James Vanek officer: See Remarks 9 W 57TH STREET, FLOOR 41, NEW YORK NY 10019
Ryan Delgiudice officer: See Remarks 1520 E. GRAND AVENUE, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Kristin Hester officer: See Remarks 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Robert L Borden director C/O ATHENE HOLDING LTD., WASHINGTON HOUSE, 16 CHURCH STREET, HAMILTON D0 HM 11
Seifert Kenneth Lee Jr. officer: See Remarks 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Saba Capital Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Boaz Weinstein 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Joseph A. Moroney officer: President and CIO C/O APOLLO SENIOR FLOATING RATE FUND, 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Apollo Total Return Master Fund L.p. other: See Remarks ONE MANHATTANVILLE ROAD, SUITE 201, PURCHASE NY 10057
Frank F Marra officer: Treasurer and CFO APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, 730 FIFTH AVE, 11TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Elliot Jr Stein director C/ COMMONWEALTH CAPITAL PARTNERS, 444 MADISON AVE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Barry J. Cohen director C/O APOLLO SENIOR FLOATING RATE FUND INC, 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
John J Hannan director 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Todd J Slotkin director 35 EAST 62ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10021
Glenn N Marchak director CITIGROUP ASSET MANAGEMENT, 300 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE 4TH FL, STAMFORD CT 06902

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