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Piedmont Lithium (Piedmont Lithium) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Piedmont Lithium Graham Number?

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 (2024-04-25), the stock price of Piedmont Lithium is $11.42. Piedmont Lithium's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $N/A. Therefore, Piedmont Lithium's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

The historical rank and industry rank for Piedmont Lithium's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

PLL's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: 1.17
* 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.


Piedmont Lithium Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Piedmont Lithium'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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Piedmont Lithium Graham Number Chart

Piedmont Lithium Annual Data
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Piedmont Lithium Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Piedmont Lithium's Graham Number

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Piedmont Lithium'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.


Piedmont Lithium's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Piedmont Lithium's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Piedmont Lithium's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Piedmont Lithium Graham Number Calculation

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

Piedmont Lithium'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*17.244*-1.64)
=N/A

Piedmont Lithium'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*17.244*-1.507)
=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.


Piedmont Lithium  (NAS:PLL) 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.

Piedmont Lithium's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=11.42/N/A
=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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Piedmont Lithium (Piedmont Lithium) Business Description

Address
42 E Catawba Street, Belmont, NC, USA, 28012
Piedmont Lithium Inc, is a lithium-based company focused on the development of its Piedmont Lithium Project located within the Carolina TinSpodumene Belt (''TSB'') and along trend to the Hallman Beam and Kings Mountain mines.
Executives
Claude Demby director C/O SMART MODULAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 39870 EUREKA DRIVE, NEWARK CA 94560
Michael D White officer: EVP and CFO 17988 EDISON AVE, CHESTERFIELD MA 63005
Michael A Bless director C/O ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL INC, 777 E. WISCONSIN AVE #1400, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Bruce Czachor officer: EVP, CLO & Secretary 32 NORTH MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Patrick Brindle officer: EVP and CDO 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Keith D. Phillips director, officer: President and CEO 42 E CATAWBA STREET, BELMONT NC 28012
Austin Devaney officer: EVP and CCO C/O PIEDMONT LITHIUM INC., 42 E CATAWBA STREET, BELMONT NC 28012
Krishna Mcvey officer: EVP and CAO C/O PIEDMONT LITHIUM INC., 42 E CATAWBA STREET, BELMONT NC 28012
Christina M Alvord director 1200 URBAN CENTER DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM AL 35242
Jeffrey T. Armstrong director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
David Klanecky officer: EVP and COO 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Susan C. Jones director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Levi Mochkin director
Todd Hannigan director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Jorge Beristain director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012

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