GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Consumer Defensive » Education » TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) » Definitions » Graham Number
中文

TAL Education Group (TAL Education Group) Graham Number : $2.46 (As of Nov. 2023)


View and export this data going back to 2010. Start your Free Trial

What is TAL Education Group 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 TAL Education Group is $12.26. TAL Education Group's graham number for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $2.46. Therefore, TAL Education Group's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 4.99.

The historical rank and industry rank for TAL Education Group's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

TAL' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.41   Med: 5.82   Max: 31.85
Current: 4.98

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of TAL Education Group was 31.85. The lowest was 2.41. And the median was 5.82.

TAL's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
84.62% of 156 companies
in the Education industry
Industry Median: 1.4 vs TAL: 4.98

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


TAL Education Group Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for TAL Education Group'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.

* Premium members only.

TAL Education Group Graham Number Chart

TAL Education Group Annual Data
Trend Feb14 Feb15 Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.85 1.76 - - -

TAL Education Group Quarterly Data
Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23
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 - - - 2.92 2.46

Competitive Comparison of TAL Education Group's Graham Number

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, TAL Education Group'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.


TAL Education Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, TAL Education Group's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where TAL Education Group's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



TAL Education Group Graham Number Calculation

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

TAL Education Group's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Feb. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*5.73*-0.216)
=N/A

TAL Education Group's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*5.719*0.047)
=2.46

* 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.


TAL Education Group  (NYSE:TAL) 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.

TAL Education Group's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Nov. 2023 )
=12.26/2.46
=4.99

* 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.


TAL Education Group Graham Number Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of TAL Education Group's Graham Number provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.


TAL Education Group (TAL Education Group) Business Description

Address
Xiaoying West Street, 5th Floor, Tower B, Heying Center, Haidian District, Beijing, CHN, 100085
TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. K-9 academic afterschool tutoring used to account for the majority of TAL's revenue before the regulatory changes in 2021 that imposed a nonprofit requirement on the business. After spinning off its K-9 academic afterschool tutoring business, TAL realigned its focus toward enrichment learning, content solutions, and learning technology solutions.

TAL Education Group (TAL Education Group) Headlines

From GuruFocus