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Hopewell Holdings (Hopewell Holdings) Graham Number : $9.36 (As of Jun. 2018)


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What is Hopewell Holdings 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 (2024-05-12), the stock price of Hopewell Holdings is $4.799. Hopewell Holdings's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2018 was $9.36. Therefore, Hopewell Holdings's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.51.

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

HOWWY's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 1
* 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.


Hopewell Holdings Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hopewell Holdings'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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Hopewell Holdings Graham Number Chart

Hopewell Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.41 7.97 7.95 5.92 9.35

Hopewell Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Jun08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18
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 7.96 6.88 5.94 7.69 9.36

Competitive Comparison of Hopewell Holdings's Graham Number

For the Infrastructure Operations subindustry, Hopewell Holdings'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.


Hopewell Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Hopewell Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hopewell Holdings Graham Number Calculation

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

Hopewell Holdings's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2018 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*7.719*0.503)
=9.35

Hopewell Holdings's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2018 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*7.719*0.504)
=9.36

* 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.


Hopewell Holdings  (OTCPK:HOWWY) 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.

Hopewell Holdings's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jun. 2018 )
=4.799/9.36
=0.51

* 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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Hopewell Holdings (Hopewell Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
183 Queen’s Road East, 64th Floor, Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, HKG
Hopewell Holdings Ltd is an investment and infrastructure company domiciled in Hong Kong. The company operates through seven segments: property investment; hotel, restaurant, and catering operation; property development; toll road investment; power plant; treasury income; and other operations. Toll road investment, the most significant contributor to revenue, invests in toll road projects. Property investment and property development are the next most significant segments, and let, manage, develop, and sell property investments. Power plant, which contributes a similar amount of revenue as property investment and property development, operates power plant assets. The company derives the majority of income domestically, and also operates in the People's Republic of China.

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