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 Intersil is $22.49. Intersil's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2016 was $4.73. Therefore, Intersil's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 4.76.
The historical rank and industry rank for Intersil's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
ISIL's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Semiconductors industry.
Industry Median: 1.95 * 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.
Intersil Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for Intersil'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.
Competitive Comparison of Intersil's Graham Number
For the Semiconductors subindustry, Intersil'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.
Intersil's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry
For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Intersil's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Intersil's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Intersil Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Intersil's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 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.
Intersil (NAS:ISIL) 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.
Intersil's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Dec. 2016 )
=
22.49
/
4.73
=
4.76
* 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.
Intersil Graham Number Related Terms
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Intersil Corp was formed in August 199. The Company designs and develops power management and precision analog integrated circuits, or ICs. The Company is a supplier of power management and precision analog technology for many of the rigorous applications in the infrastructure, industrial, automotive, military, aerospace, computing, and consumer markets. It supplies power IC solutions for battery management, processor power management, and display power management, including power regulators, converters and controllers, as well as fully integrated power modules. It also provides precision analog components such as amplifiers and buffers, proximity and light sensors, data converters, optoelectronics, video decoders and interface products. As a supplier of radiation-hardened devices to the military and aerospace industries, its product development methodologies reflect the long-term experience it has in designing products to meet the standards for reliability and performance in harsh environmental conditions, such as outer space. The Company divides its opportunities into two market categories: industrial & infrastructure and computing & consumer. The industrial & infrastructure market category includes products for power, automotive, aerospace, and broad-line industrial applications. Power products include industrial & infrastructure products - digital power controllers, modules and switching regulators, as well as other general purpose power devices. In automotive, it is targeting both infotainment and power applications. Its video decoders form a building block for console displays and rear view camera displays that are becoming a common safety feature in mid- to high-end vehicles and are required in all passenger cars in the U.S. beginning in 2018. It is applying its power management technology to expand its presence in infotainment and other opportunities within the automobile passenger cabin, and addressing the growing market for battery management within hybrid and fully electric vehicles. Its radiation-hardened products offer advantages for the rigorous applications, including commercial aerospace, and make up another large component of its industrial & infrastructure revenue. Its computing heritage has resulted in a suite of products for analog and digital power management addressing the rapid expansion of cloud computing and communications infrastructure. Its products also enable multiple functions in hundreds of other industrial systems from factory automation to test and measurement equipment. The Company sells its products through direct geographical salesforce that operates in the North American, European, Japanese and Asia/Pacific markets and a network of distributors. The Company competes in its target markets with many companies that may have greater resources, including, but not limited to, Analog Devices, Infineon, Linear Technology, Maxim Integrated Products, ON Semiconductor and Texas Instruments.
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