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Steel Partners Holdings LP (Steel Partners Holdings LP) Graham Number : $67.61 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Steel Partners Holdings LP 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 Steel Partners Holdings LP is $36.98. Steel Partners Holdings LP's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $67.61. Therefore, Steel Partners Holdings LP's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.55.

The historical rank and industry rank for Steel Partners Holdings LP's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

SPLP' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.52   Med: 0.84   Max: 5.98
Current: 0.55

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Steel Partners Holdings LP was 5.98. The lowest was 0.52. And the median was 0.84.

SPLP's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
73.65% of 353 companies
in the Conglomerates industry
Industry Median: 0.89 vs SPLP: 0.55

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


Steel Partners Holdings LP Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Steel Partners Holdings LP'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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Steel Partners Holdings LP Graham Number Chart

Steel Partners Holdings LP Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 17.25 19.17 47.65 54.52 67.42

Steel Partners Holdings LP Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 54.85 55.19 61.90 60.43 67.61

Competitive Comparison of Steel Partners Holdings LP's Graham Number

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Steel Partners Holdings LP'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.


Steel Partners Holdings LP's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Steel Partners Holdings LP's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Steel Partners Holdings LP's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Steel Partners Holdings LP Graham Number Calculation

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

Steel Partners Holdings LP'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*32.664*6.185)
=67.42

Steel Partners Holdings LP'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*32.664*6.22)
=67.61

* 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.


Steel Partners Holdings LP  (NYSE:SPLP) 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.

Steel Partners Holdings LP's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=36.98/67.61
=0.55

* 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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Steel Partners Holdings LP (Steel Partners Holdings LP) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
590 Madison Avenue, 32nd Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10022
Steel Partners Holdings LP operates in industrial products, energy, defense, supply chain management and logistics, banking, and youth sports industries. It operates in various segments including the Diversified Industrial segment comprised of manufacturers of engineered niche industrial products, including joining materials, tubing, building materials, performance materials, electrical products, cutting replacement products and services, and metallized films and packaging businesses; the Energy segment provides drilling and production services to the oil and gas industry and owns a youth sports business; the Financial Services segment consists of the operations of WebBank, a Utah chartered industrial bank, which engages in a full range of banking activities.
Executives
Jack L Howard director, 10 percent owner, officer: President 182 FARMERS LANE, STE 101, SANTA ROSA CA 95405
Gordon A. Walker officer: Senior Vice President KNOWLES CORPORATION, 1151 MAPLEWOOD DRIVE, ITASCA IL 60143
Warren G Lichtenstein director, 10 percent owner, officer: Executive Chairman C/O STEEL PARTNERS II L P, 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Eric P. Karros director C/O STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P., 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Rory H. Tahari director 510 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Richard I Neal director C/O UNITED INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, 124 INDUSTRY LANE, HUNT VALLEY MD 21030
John P Mcniff director 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Lon Rosen director 120 S. CARMELINA AVE., LOS ANGELES CA 90049
James Iii Benenson director C/O STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P., 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Douglas Woodworth officer: Chief Financial Officer STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P., 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Sph Spv-i Llc other: See Footnote 1 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Wgl Capital Corp. 10 percent owner 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Emh Howard Llc other: See Footnote 1 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Steel Partners, Ltd. 10 percent owner 590 MADISON AVENUE, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Fejes William Theodore Jr officer: Chief Operating Officer 440 NORTH FIFTH AVENUE, CHAMBERSBURG PA 17201