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.
The historical rank and industry rank for Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
SGNT's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Drug Manufacturers industry.
Industry Median: 1.74 * 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.
Sagent Pharmaceuticals Graham Number Historical Data
* 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 Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Graham Number
For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Sagent Pharmaceuticals'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.
Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry
For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Sagent Pharmaceuticals Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
Sagent Pharmaceuticals (NAS:SGNT) 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.
Sagent Pharmaceuticals's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
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Share Price (Today)
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Graham number (Q: Jun. 2016 )
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21.76
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N/A
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N/A
* 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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Sagent Pharmaceuticals (Sagent Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
Sagent Pharmaceuticals Inc is a Delaware corporation that was incorporated in 2011. The Company was initially founded in 2006 as Sagent Holding Co., a Cayman Islands company, it reincorporated as Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in connection with its initial public offering, on April 26, 2011. The Company is engaged in the developing, manufacturing, sourcing and marketing injectable pharmaceutical products, which it sells primarily in the United States of America. The Company primarily focuses on generic injectable pharmaceuticals, which provide customers a lower-cost alternative to branded products when applicable patents have expired or been declared invalid, or when the products are determined not to infringe the patents of others, it offers customers, products across anti-infective, oncolytic and critical care indications in a variety of presentations, including single- and multi-dose vials and ready-to-use pre-filled syringes and premix bags. It generally seeks to develop injectable products where the form or packaging of the product can be enhanced to improve delivery, product safety or end-user convenience. At the year end, the Company's product portfolio has grown to a total of 53 products which can be classified into the following three product categories: anti-infective, oncology and critical care. Its anti-infective products assist in the treatment of various infections and related symptoms, its oncology products are used in the treatment of cancer and cancer-related medical problems, and its critical care products are used in a variety of critical care applications and include anesthetics, cardiac medications, steroidal products and sedatives. The Company distributes its products primarily through pharmaceutical wholesalers and, to a lesser extent, specialty distributors that focus on particular therapeutic product categories, for use by a wide variety of end-users, including U.S. hospitals, integrated delivery networks and alternative site facilities. The Company's principal competitors include Fresenius Kabi, a division of Fresenius SE, Hospira, Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sandoz International GmbH, a division of Novartis AG, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and West-Ward Pharmaceutical Corp. The Company is subject to extensive regulation by governmental authorities in the U.S. and in other countries.
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