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PS Business Parks (PS Business Parks) Graham Number : $121.50 (As of Sep. 2022)


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What is PS Business Parks 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 (2024-04-26), the stock price of PS Business Parks is $187.44. PS Business Parks's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $121.50. Therefore, PS Business Parks's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.54.

The historical rank and industry rank for PS Business Parks's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

PSB' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.48   Med: 1.78   Max: 3.77
Current: 1.54

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of PS Business Parks was 3.77. The lowest was 0.48. And the median was 1.78.

PSB's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked
in the REITs industry.
Industry Median: 0.78 vs PSB: 1.54

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


PS Business Parks Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for PS Business Parks'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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PS Business Parks Graham Number Chart

PS Business Parks Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 64.65 50.93 54.81 106.58 -

PS Business Parks Quarterly Data
Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 106.54 114.84 121.73 121.50 85.24

Competitive Comparison of PS Business Parks's Graham Number

For the REIT - Diversified subindustry, PS Business Parks'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.


PS Business Parks's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the REITs Industry

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, PS Business Parks's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where PS Business Parks's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



PS Business Parks Graham Number Calculation

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

PS Business Parks's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*60.121*0)
=N/A

PS Business Parks's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*43.621*15.04)
=121.50

* 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.


PS Business Parks  (NYSE:PSB) 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.

PS Business Parks's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2022 )
=187.44/121.50
=1.54

* 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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PS Business Parks (PS Business Parks) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
345 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10154
Link Parks Inc formerly NamePS Business Parks Inc is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates primarily multitenant commercial warehouse, office, industrial park, and flex properties in the United States. The business activities of the group functioned through the acquisition, development, ownership and management of commercial real estate and the acquisition, development, ownership and management of multifamily real estate. The company defines flex space as locations that combine both warehouse and office space in a single configuration. Almost half the company's properties are located in California. The company generates nearly most of its revenue from rental income derived from its flex space and low-rise office holdings.
Executives
Havner Ronald L Jr director 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Maria R Hawthorne director 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Trenton Groves officer: SVP, CAO & Asst. Sec. C/O PS BUSINESS PARKS, INC., 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Adeel Khan officer: Chief Financial Officer 11620 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 300, LOS ANGELES CA 90025
Jennifer Holden Dunbar director C/O PS BUSINESS PARKS, INC., 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
M Christian Mitchell director 355 S. GRAND AVE, SUITE 1750, LOS ANGELES CA 90071
Jeffrey D Hedges officer: EVP, CFO & Secretary C/O PS BUSINESS PARKS, INC., 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Russell Joseph D Jr officer: PRESIDENT / CEO PUBLIC STORAGE, 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Irene H Oh director 135 N LOS ROBLES AVE. 7TH FL, PASADENA CA 91101
Chandler, Iii Dan M. officer: President & CEO 915 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 2200, LOS ANGELES CA 90017
Kristy Pipes director C/O PS BUSINESS PARKS, INC., 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
James H Kropp director 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
John W Petersen officer: Executive Vice President & COO 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Stephen W Wilson director C/O PS BUSINESS PARKS, INC., 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
Robert S Rollo director C/O PS BUSINESS PARKS, INC., 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201