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.
The historical rank and industry rank for Apollo Education Group's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
APOL's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Education industry.
Industry Median: 1.39 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Graham-Number only.
Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.
Apollo Education Group Graham Number Historical Data
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Apollo Education Group's Graham Number
For the Education & Training Services subindustry, Apollo Education Group'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 Education Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Education Industry
For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Apollo Education Group's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Apollo Education Group's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Apollo Education Group Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Apollo Education Group's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2016 is calculated as
* 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 Education Group (NAS:APOL) 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 Education Group's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
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Share Price (Today)
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Graham number (Q: Nov. 2016 )
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9.995
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N/A
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N/A
* 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 Education Group (Apollo Education Group) Business Description
Apollo Education Group Inc was incorporated in Arizona in 1981. It offers educational programs and services, online and on-campus at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels. Its learning platforms include the following The University of Phoenix, Inc., Apollo Global, Inc. which also includes BPP Holdings Limited, Universidad Latinoamericana, Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación, and Indian Education Services Private Ltd., Western International University, Inc., Institute for Professional Development, The College for Financial Planning Institutes Corporation, Carnegie Learning, Inc., and Apollo Lightspeed. Its institutions offer Accredited Degree Programs, Professional Examinations Training and Professional Development, and Employers. The Company's international operations include full-time and part-time courses, delivered on-campus or online, for professional examination preparation, professional development training and various degree/certificate/diploma programs. It competes mainly with traditional public and private two-year and four-year degree-granting regionally accredited colleges and universities, other proprietary degree-granting regionally accredited schools and alternatives to higher education. Its domestic postsecondary institutions are subject to extensive federal and state regulations.
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