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 AEP Industries is $109.95. AEP Industries's graham number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2016 was $50.49. Therefore, AEP Industries's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.18.
The historical rank and industry rank for AEP Industries's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
AEPI's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Vehicles & Parts industry.
Industry Median: 1.15 * 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.
AEP Industries Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for AEP Industries'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 AEP Industries's Graham Number
For the Auto Parts subindustry, AEP Industries'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.
AEP Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry
For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, AEP Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where AEP Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
AEP Industries Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
AEP Industries's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 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.
AEP Industries (NAS:AEPI) 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.
AEP Industries's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Oct. 2016 )
=
109.95
/
50.49
=
2.18
* 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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AEP Industries (AEP Industries) Business Description
AEP Industries Inc was founded in 1970 and incorporated in Delaware in 1985. The Company is a manufacturer of plastic packaging films in North America. It manufactures and markets a diverse line of polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride and polypropylene flexible packaging products, with consumer, industrial and agricultural applications. The Company's plastic packaging films are used in the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, constructions, agriculture and textile industries. It manufactures plastic films, mainly from resins blended with other raw materials, which it either sell or further process by printing, laminating, slitting or converting. The Company's processing technologies enable it to create a variety of value-added products according to the specifications of its customers. Its manufacturing operations are located in the United States and Canada. It manufactures both industrial grade products, which are manufactured to general industry specifications, and specialty products, which are manufactured under more exacting standards to assure certain required chemical and physical properties. Specialty products generally sell at higher margins than industrial grade products. It manufactures custom films, generally for industrial applications, including sheeting, tubing and bags. The Company manufactures a line of stretch film products for both hand wrap and rotary applications, using both monolayer and co-extruded constructions used to wrap pallets of industrial and commercial goods for shipping or storage. The Company manufacture specifically formulated in-store and pre-store films with its Resinite line of polyvinyl chloride food wrap for the supermarket and industrial markets. It offers product with approximately 50 different formulations. Its Griffin, Georgia facility also produces dispenser (ZipSafe cutter) boxes containing polyvinyl chloride food wrap for sale to consumers and institutions, including restaurants, schools, hospitals and penitentiaries. The Company's PROformance films are used for food, pharmaceutical and medical applications and are available in up to five layers for applications requiring strength, clarity, sealability, barrier properties against oxygen or moisture transmission, and breathability for preserving freshness. Its canliners product line includes retail kitchen and standard trash bags and others. The Company manufactures approximately ten color printing, sheeting, and wicketed bags. It's printed and converted films provide printed rollstock to the food and beverage industries and other manufacturing and distributing companies. It also converts printed rollstock to bags and pouches for use by bakeries, fresh or frozen food processors, manufacturers or other dry goods processors. The Company's operations are conducted within one business segment-the production, manufacture and distribution of flexible plastic packaging products, for the food
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