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Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund) Graham Number : $28.32 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation 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 (2024-04-27), the stock price of Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund is $13.86. Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $28.32. Therefore, Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.49.

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

ARDC' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49   Med: 0.76   Max: 1.64
Current: 0.49

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund was 1.64. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 0.76.

ARDC's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
84.81% of 1126 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.77 vs ARDC: 0.49

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


Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation 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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Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Graham Number Chart

Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Annual Data
Trend Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 8.81 10.95 24.60 - 28.32

Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Semi-Annual Data
Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 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 24.60 - - 20.17 28.32

Competitive Comparison of Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation 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.


Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation 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*14.493*2.46)
=28.32

Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation 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*14.493*2.46)
=28.32

* 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.


Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund  (NYSE:ARDC) 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.

Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=13.86/28.32
=0.49

* 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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Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
2000 Avenue of the Stars, 12th Floor, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90067
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Inc is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The fund's investment objective is to provide an attractive level of total return, through current income and, secondarily, through capital appreciation. The Fund invests in a broad, dynamically managed portfolio of senior secured loans (Senior Loans) made to companies whose debt is rated below investment grade; corporate bonds (Corporate Bonds) that are high yield issues rated below investment grade; other fixed-income instruments of a similar nature that may be represented by derivatives; and securities of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).
Executives
John Joseph Shaw director C/O ARES MANAGEMENT LLC, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, 12TH FLOOR, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Elaine Orr director 143 MAGNOLIA AVENUE, MILLBRAE CA 94030
Bruce H Spector director APOLLO ADVISORS LP, 2 MANHATTANVILLE ROAD, PURCHASE NY 10577
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