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 (2024-05-13), the stock price of Delta Natural Gas Co is $30.69. Delta Natural Gas Co's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2017 was $13.63. Therefore, Delta Natural Gas Co's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.25.
The historical rank and industry rank for Delta Natural Gas Co's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
DGAS's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Utilities - Regulated industry.
Industry Median: 1.18 * 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.
Delta Natural Gas Co Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for Delta Natural Gas Co'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 Delta Natural Gas Co's Graham Number
For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Delta Natural Gas Co'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.
Delta Natural Gas Co's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry
For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Delta Natural Gas Co's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Delta Natural Gas Co's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Delta Natural Gas Co Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Delta Natural Gas Co's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2017 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.
Delta Natural Gas Co (NAS:DGAS) 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.
Delta Natural Gas Co's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Jun. 2017 )
=
30.69
/
13.63
=
2.25
* 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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Delta Natural Gas Co (Delta Natural Gas Co) Business Description
Delta Natural Gas Co Inc was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on October 7, 1949. The Company distributes or transports natural gas. Its distribution and transmission systems are located in central and southeastern Kentucky, and it owns and operates an underground natural gas storage field in southeastern Kentucky. The Company transport natural gas to industrial customers who purchase their natural gas in the open market. It also transports natural gas on behalf of local producers and customers not on its distribution system and extract liquids from natural gas in its storage field and on its pipeline systems that are sold at market prices. The Company operates through two segments, a regulated segment and a non-regulated segment. Through regulated segment, the company distributes natural gas to their retail customers in 23 predominantly rural counties. In addition, the regulated segment transports natural gas to large-volume customers on its system who purchase their natural gas in the open market. The regulated segment also transports natural gas on behalf of local producers and other customers not on its distribution system. The non-regulated segment includes three wholly-owned subsidiaries. Two of these subsidiaries, Delta Resources and Delgasco, purchase natural gas in the open market, including natural gas from Kentucky producers. The Company resells this natural gas to industrial customers on its distribution system and to others not on its system. The competes with alternate sources of energy for its regulated distribution customers. These alternate sources include electricity, geo-thermal, coal, oil, propane, wood and solar.
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