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Forth PCL (BKK:FORTH-R) Graham Number : ฿5.40 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Forth PCL 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 (2024-04-28), the stock price of Forth PCL is ฿27.02676. Forth PCL's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was ฿5.40. Therefore, Forth PCL's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 5.00.

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

BKK:FORTH-R' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.33   Med: 1.7   Max: 5.14
Current: 3.09

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Forth PCL was 5.14. The lowest was 1.33. And the median was 1.70.

BKK:FORTH-R's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
82.77% of 1590 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.53 vs BKK:FORTH-R: 3.09

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


Forth PCL Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Forth PCL'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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Forth PCL Graham Number Chart

Forth PCL Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.37 3.65 5.43 6.28 5.40

Forth PCL Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.27 6.58 6.60 5.96 5.40

Competitive Comparison of Forth PCL's Graham Number

For the Electronic Components subindustry, Forth PCL'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.


Forth PCL's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Forth PCL's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Forth PCL Graham Number Calculation

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

Forth PCL'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*2.125*0.61)
=5.40

Forth PCL'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*2.125*0.61)
=5.40

* 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.


Forth PCL  (BKK:FORTH-R) 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.

Forth PCL's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=27.02676/5.40
=5.00

* 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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Forth PCL (BKK:FORTH-R) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1053/1, Phaholyothin Road, Phayathai Sub-district, Phayathai District, Bangkok, THA, 10400
Forth Corp PCL is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of electronic equipment and project work relating to design and install telecommunication equipment. The company is organized into business units based on its products and services and have three reportable segments as follows - Electronics Manufacturing Service segment designs manufactures of consigns and turnkey projects, and sales of semiconductor electronic parts. Enterprise solutions business segment that bids for project work, sources, subcontracts and install various systems for the government and private sectors. The Smart service business segment provides online financial transaction services and sells products and services through vending machines. The company and its subsidiaries are operated in Thailand only.

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