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Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA (Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA 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 Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA is $20.00. Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $N/A. Therefore, Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

The historical rank and industry rank for Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA was 1.88. The lowest was 0.02. And the median was 0.31.

MSFJY's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 0.63
* 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.


Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA'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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Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA Graham Number Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA'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.


Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA Graham Number Calculation

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

Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA'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*5.346*0)
=N/A

Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA'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*5.346*0)
=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.


Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA  (GREY:MSFJY) 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.

Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=20.00/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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Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA (Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA) Business Description

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Address
Avenida Andres Bello, No. 1 Edificio Banco, Mercantil, Caracas, VEN
Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA is a Venezuela-based financial services provider. It offers, through its subsidiaries, a full range of financial products and services in the banking, insurance and wealth management businesses in the Americas and Europe. It provides financial and general banking services to corporate, middle market and retail customers. Third party asset management and securities brokerage services are provided in Venezuela and other jurisdictions, as well as insurance services in Venezuela and Panama. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Venezuela.

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