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Dime Community Bancshares (Dime Community Bancshares) Graham Number

: $37.45 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of Dime Community Bancshares is $18.57. Dime Community Bancshares's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $37.45. Therefore, Dime Community Bancshares's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.50.

The historical rank and industry rank for Dime Community Bancshares's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

DCOM' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.42   Med: 0.86   Max: 1.24
Current: 0.49

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Dime Community Bancshares was 1.24. The lowest was 0.42. And the median was 0.86.

DCOM's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
71.86% of 1379 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.61 vs DCOM: 0.49

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


Dime Community Bancshares Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dime Community Bancshares'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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Dime Community Bancshares Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 24.09 37.43 41.92 44.35 37.67

Dime Community Bancshares Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 44.34 45.34 43.74 41.13 37.45

Competitive Comparison

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Dime Community Bancshares'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.


Dime Community Bancshares Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Dime Community Bancshares's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Dime Community Bancshares's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Dime Community Bancshares Graham Number Calculation

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

Dime Community Bancshares'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*24.439*2.58)
=37.67

Dime Community Bancshares'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*24.439*2.55)
=37.45

* 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.


Dime Community Bancshares  (NAS:DCOM) 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.

Dime Community Bancshares's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=18.57/37.45
=0.50

* 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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Dime Community Bancshares (Dime Community Bancshares) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
898 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 560, Hauppauge, NY, USA, 11788
Dime Community Bancshares Inc operates as a holding company. It gathers deposits from customers within its market area and via the internet, and invests them in multifamily residential, commercial real estate, commercial and industrial (C&I) loans, and one-to-four family residential real estate loans, as well as mortgage-backed securities, obligations of the U.S. government and government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), and corporate debt and equity securities.
Executives
Stuart H Lubow officer: President 300 CADMAN PLAZA WEST, 8TH FLOOR, BROOKLYN NY 11201
Judith H Germano director 898 VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY, HAUPPAUGE NY 11788
Basswood Capital Management, L.l.c. director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization 645 MADISON AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Christopher J Porzelt officer: Chief Risk Officer 300 CADMAN PLAZA WEST, 8TH FLOOR, BROOKLYN NY 11201
Basswood Partners, L.l.c. director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization 645 MADISON AVENUE, 10TH FL, NEW YORK NY 10022
Basswood Financial Fund, L.p. director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization 645 MADISON AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Basswood Financial Long Only Fund, L.p. director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization 645 MADISON AVENUE, 10TH FL., NEW YORK NY 10022
Basswood Opportunity Fund Inc director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization 645 MADISON AVE, 10TH FL, NEW YORK NY 10017
Basswood Opportunity Partners, L.p. director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization BASSWOOD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC, 645 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Michael Fegan officer: Chief Technology & Ops Officer 300 CADMAN PLAZA WEST, BROOKLYN NY 11201
Kenneth J Mahon director
Paul M Aguggia director 1433 VAN HOUTEN AVENUE, CLIFTON NJ 07013
Mccoy Jr. Albert E director P.O. BOX 3005, BRIDGEHAMPTON NY 11932
Rosemarie Chen director 300 CADMAN PLAZA WEST, 8TH FLOOR, BROOKLYN NY 11201
Bennett D Lindenbaum director, 10 percent owner, other: Director-by-Deputization 645 MADISON AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022