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IEC Electronics (IEC Electronics) Graham Number : $5.80 (As of Jun. 2021)


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What is IEC Electronics 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 (2024-05-08), the stock price of IEC Electronics is $15.34. IEC Electronics's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2021 was $5.80. Therefore, IEC Electronics's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.65.

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

IEC' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.11   Med: 1.03   Max: 4.27
Current: 2.64

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of IEC Electronics was 4.27. The lowest was 0.11. And the median was 1.03.

IEC's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 1.54 vs IEC: 2.64

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


IEC Electronics Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for IEC Electronics'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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IEC Electronics Graham Number Chart

IEC Electronics Annual Data
Trend Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.78 0.56 7.50 5.53 7.27

IEC Electronics Quarterly Data
Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21
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 7.01 7.27 7.55 6.49 5.80

Competitive Comparison of IEC Electronics's Graham Number

For the Electronic Components subindustry, IEC Electronics'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.


IEC Electronics's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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



IEC Electronics Graham Number Calculation

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

IEC Electronics's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2020 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*3.729*0.63)
=7.27

IEC Electronics's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2021 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*3.929*0.38)
=5.80

* 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.


IEC Electronics  (NAS:IEC) 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.

IEC Electronics's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jun. 2021 )
=15.34/5.80
=2.65

* 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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IEC Electronics (IEC Electronics) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
105 Norton Street, Newark, NY, USA, 14513
IEC Electronics Corp operates in an electronics contract manufacturing services (EMS) industry. It provides electronic manufacturing services to advanced technology companies primarily in the medical, industrial, aerospace and defense sectors. Its offerings include on-site analytical testing laboratories, custom design, and test engineering services. The firm also offers a broad array of manufacturing services encompassing electronics, interconnect solutions and precision metalworking. The majority of its revenue is derived from the sale of electronic products.
Executives
Jeremy R Nowak director C/O API TECHNOLOGIES CORP ONE NORTH WACKER DRIVE SUITE 4400 CHICAGO IL 60606
Charles P Hadeed director 35 VANTAGE POINT DRIVE, ROCHESTER NY 14624
Jeffrey T Schlarbaum director, officer: President and CEO 105 NORTON STREET, NEWARK NY 14513
Michael W Osborne director 105 NORTON STREET NEWARK NY 14513
Andrew M Laurence director C/O API TECHNOLOGIES CORP., ONE NORTH WACKER DRIVE SUITE 4400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Keith M Butler director 105 NORTON STREET NEWARK NY 14513
Thomas L Barbato officer: CFO 105 NORTON STREET, NEWARK NY 14513
Lynn J Hartrick director 105 NORTON STREET NEWARK NY 14513
Michael Thomas Williams officer: VP, Finance and CFO 54 BARCHAN DUNE RISE VICTOR NY 14564
Jens Hauvn officer: SVP, Operations C/O IEC ELECTRONICS CORP. 105 NORTON STREET NEWARK NY 14513
Eric Singer director 323 SUNNY ISLES BLVD., SUITE 700, SUNNY ISLES BEACH FL 33160
W Barry Gilbert officer: CEO & Chairman of the Board C/O IEC ELECTRONICS CORP. NEWARK NY 14513
Brett Eugene Mancini officer: VP Bus Devel & Eng Serv 12 SANDPIPER LANE PITTSFORD NY 14534
John Carlton Johnson director 24450 MEADOW ROAD PO BOX 1093 CLARK CO 80428
Florence Distefano Hudson director 1 WINSOR PLACE PURCHASE NY 10577