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 Veresen is $14.943976. Veresen's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2017 was $2.53. Therefore, Veresen's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 5.90.
The historical rank and industry rank for Veresen's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
FCGYF's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 0.845 * 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.
Veresen Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for Veresen'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.
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Veresen'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.
Veresen's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Veresen's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Veresen's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Veresen Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Veresen's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 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.
Veresen (OTCPK:FCGYF) 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.
Veresen's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Jun. 2017 )
=
14.943976
/
2.53
=
5.90
* 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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Veresen Inc is an energy infrastructure company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It owns and operates energy infrastructure assets across North America. The Company operates in three business segments, Pipelines, Midstream, and Power. The Company's Pipelines segment owns a 1,330-kilometre pipeline system that transports purity ethane from various Alberta ethane extraction plants to Alberta's major petrochemical complexes located near Joffre and Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta; and also owns a 3,000-kilometre natural gas pipeline comprised of a mainline and various connecting lateral pipelines. This pipeline extends from northeastern B.C. to points near Chicago, Illinois. It's Midstream Business segment is comprised of two natural gas processing plants with combined functional capacity of 516 mmcf/d, as well as approximately 40,000 horsepower of compression and 370 km of gas gathering lines and is located in the Cutbank Ridge region of Alberta and British Columbia. The Hythe plant processes both sour and sweet natural gas, while the Steeprock plant is a sour gas processing facility. While, its Power Business segment operates, a Gas-Fired Generation facility consisting of an 86-MW cogeneration facility located in Windsor, Ontario; 17-MW cogeneration facility located in London, Ontario; 49-MW cogeneration facility located in Ripon, California; 44-MW cogeneration facility located in Pomona, California; and 70-MW combined cycle power cogeneration facility located in Brush, Colorado; an district energy system that produces and distributes steam and chilled water fueled primarily by natural gas, located in London, Ontario; and a district energy system that produces and distributes steam, hot water and electricity fueled primarily by biomass and waste fuel, located in Charlottetown, P.E.I.; a Run-of-River Hydro facility that produces a 33-MW run-of-river hydroelectric power located on the Black River near Watertown, New York; an 11-MW run-of-river power facility located 30 km north of Vancouver, B.C.; two 5-MW waste-heat power generation facilities located at Spectra pipeline's 150 Mile House and Savona, B.C. compressor stations; and a 33-MW wind project under construction in the County of Huron, Ontario; and also operates two wind power facilities, 9-MW and 11-MW, respectively, near Grand Valley, Ontario.
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