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Forest City Realty Trust (Forest City Realty Trust) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Sep. 2018)


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What is Forest City Realty Trust 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 (2024-04-26), the stock price of Forest City Realty Trust is $31.7338. Forest City Realty Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was $N/A. Therefore, Forest City Realty Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

The historical rank and industry rank for Forest City Realty Trust's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

FCE.B's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the REITs industry.
Industry Median: 0.78
* 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.


Forest City Realty Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Forest City Realty Trust'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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Forest City Realty Trust Graham Number Chart

Forest City Realty Trust Annual Data
Trend Jan08 Jan09 Jan10 Jan11 Jan12 Jan13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Graham Number
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Forest City Realty Trust Quarterly Data
Oct13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18
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Competitive Comparison of Forest City Realty Trust's Graham Number

For the REIT - Retail subindustry, Forest City Realty Trust'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.


Forest City Realty Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the REITs Industry

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Forest City Realty Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Forest City Realty Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Forest City Realty Trust Graham Number Calculation

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

Forest City Realty Trust's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2017 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*12.838*0)
=N/A

Forest City Realty Trust's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*15.976*0)
=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.


Forest City Realty Trust  (NYSE:FCE.B) 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.

Forest City Realty Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2018 )
=31.7338/N/A
=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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Forest City Realty Trust (Forest City Realty Trust) Business Description

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Forest City Realty Trust Inc is engaged in the ownership, development, management and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate and land throughout the United States. The company's segments include the Commercial Group, Residential Group, Land Development Group and Corporate Activities. It operates mixed-use projects such as residential rental properties, regional malls, specialty/urban retail centers, office and life science buildings and others. In addition, it also engaged in acquiring and sale of both land and developed lots to residential, commercial and industrial clients. Revenue for the group is derived from the source of rental, service and management fees and land sales.