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 E-Commerce China Dangdang's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
DANG's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Retail - Cyclical industry.
Industry Median: 1.295 * 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.
E-Commerce China Dangdang 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 E-Commerce China Dangdang's Graham Number
For the Specialty Retail subindustry, E-Commerce China Dangdang'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.
E-Commerce China Dangdang's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry
For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, E-Commerce China Dangdang's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where E-Commerce China Dangdang's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
E-Commerce China Dangdang Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
E-Commerce China Dangdang'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.
E-Commerce China Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) 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.
E-Commerce China Dangdang's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Dec. 2015 )
=
6.63
/
2.46
=
2.69
* 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.
E-Commerce China Dangdang Graham Number Related Terms
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E-Commerce China Dangdang (E-Commerce China Dangdang) Business Description
E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc is a limited company incorporated on January 7, 2000 and domiciled in the Cayman Islands. The Company is principally engaged in the sales of books, audio-visual products, periodicals, consumer electronics and other general merchandise on the internet. The Company's principal operations and geographic markets are in the People's Republic of China. It is a business-to-consumer, or B2C, e-commerce company in China. As of December 31, 2013, it offered approximately 990,000 book titles on its internet platform, including more than 920,000 Chinese language titles. It offers other media products and selected general merchandise categories on its internet platform, including fashion and apparel beauty and personal care products, home and lifestyle products, and baby, children and maternity products. It also offers the dangdang.com marketplace program, which allows third-party merchants to sell their general merchandise products alongside its products. The Company's competitors include: other B2C e-commerce companies; physical retailers, catalog retailers, publishers, distributors and manufacturers of its products, many of which possess brand recognition, sales volume and customer bases, and some of which currently sell, or in the future may sell, products or services through the internet; a number of indirect competitors, including internet portals and internet search engines that are involved in e-commerce, either directly or in collaboration with other retailers; and providers of electronic books and digital content. As of February 28, 2014, it registered 82 domain names, including dangdang.com, dangdang.com.cn and dangdang.cn, and 74 trademarks and service marks and had 107 trademark applications, 3 patents and 1 patent application pending in China.
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