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Paymentus Holdings (Paymentus Holdings) Graham Number

: $2.98 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of Paymentus Holdings is $19.58. Paymentus Holdings's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.98. Therefore, Paymentus Holdings's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 6.58.

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

PAY' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 6.52   Med: 15.63   Max: 24.46
Current: 6.57

During the past 5 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Paymentus Holdings was 24.46. The lowest was 6.52. And the median was 15.63.

PAY's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
85.6% of 1354 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.14 vs PAY: 6.57

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


Paymentus Holdings Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Paymentus 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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Paymentus Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
0.97 1.07 1.43 - 2.63

Paymentus Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number 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 - - 1.45 2.41 2.98

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Paymentus 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.


Paymentus Holdings Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Paymentus Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Paymentus Holdings Graham Number Calculation

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

Paymentus Holdings'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*1.711*0.18)
=2.63

Paymentus Holdings'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*1.711*0.23)
=2.98

* 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.


Paymentus Holdings  (NYSE:PAY) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=19.58/2.98
=6.58

* 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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Paymentus Holdings (Paymentus Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
11605 N. Community House Road, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC, USA, 28277
Paymentus Holdings Inc provides electronic bill presentment and payment services, enterprise customer communication and self-service revenue management to billers and financial institutions through a Software-as-a-Service, (SaaS), secure, omni-channel technology platform. The platform integrates into a biller's core financial and operating systems to provide flexible and secure access to payment processing of credit cards, debit cards, eChecks and digital wallets across a number of channels including online, mobile, IVR, call center, chatbot and voice-based assistants. The Company generates revenue from payment transaction fees processed through the Company's platform. The fees are generated as a percentage of transaction value or a specified fee per transaction.
Executives
Andrew A. Gerber officer: General Counsel and Secretary 18390 NE 68TH ST., REDMOND WA 98052
Gerasimos (jerry) Portocalis officer: Chief Commercial Officer 18390 NE 68TH ST., REDMOND WA 98052
Arun Oberoi director 100 EAST DAVIE STREET, RALEIGH NC 27601
Sanjay Kalra officer: SVP and CFO HARMONIC INC., 4300 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Paul E. Seamon officer: Interim CFO 18390 NE 68TH ST, REDMOND WA 98052
Matt Parson officer: Chief Financial Officer 18390 NE 68TH ST., REDMOND WA 98052
Gary Trainor director 18390 NE 68TH ST., REDMOND WA 98052
Jody R Davids director C/O PREMIER INC., 13034 BALLANTYNE CORPORATE PLACE, CHARLOTTE NC 28277
Dushyant Sharma director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman, President and CEO 18390 NE 68TH ST., REDMOND WA 98052
William Ingram director C/O LEAP WIRELESS INTERNATIONAL, INC., 5887 COPLEY DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92111
Accel-kkr Growth Capital Partners Ii, Lp 10 percent owner 2500 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 300, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Accel-kkr Growth Capital Partners Ii Strategic Fund, Lp 10 percent owner 2500 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 300, MENLO PARK CA 94025
John C Morrow officer: General Counsel and Secretary 11100 NE 8TH ST #600, BELLEVUE WA 98004
Accel-kkr Growth Capital Partners Iii, Lp 10 percent owner 2500 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 300, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Accel-kkr Capital Partners Cv Iii, Lp 10 percent owner 2500 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 300, MENLO PARK CA 94025