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 (2024-06-18), the stock price of Robert Walters is €4.82. Robert Walters's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €3.23. Therefore, Robert Walters's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.49.
The historical rank and industry rank for Robert Walters's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:RBW'
s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.08 Med: 1.63 Max: 2.58
Current: 1.51
During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Robert Walters was 2.58. The lowest was 1.08. And the median was 1.63.
FRA:RBW's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than 58.06% of 682
companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 1.27
vs FRA:RBW: 1.51
Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.
Robert Walters Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for Robert Walters'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.
Competitive Comparison of Robert Walters's Graham Number
For the Staffing & Employment Services subindustry, Robert Walters'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.
Robert Walters's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Robert Walters's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Robert Walters's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Robert Walters Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Robert Walters's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 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.
Robert Walters (FRA:RBW) 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.
Robert Walters's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=
4.82
/
3.23
=
1.49
* 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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Robert Walters PLC is a specialist professional recruitment group. The company specialises in the placement of the highest calibre professionals across the disciplines of accountancy and finance, banking, engineering, HR, healthcare, IT, legal, sales, marketing, secretarial and support and supply chain, logistics and procurement. Its client base ranges from blue-chip corporates and financial services organisations to SMEs and start-ups. The Group's outsourcing division, Resource Solutions, is engaged in recruitment process outsourcing and managed services. Its geographical area of operation includes Asia Pacific, UK, Europe, and Other International. It generates the most of the revenue from the Asia Pacific.
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