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FRBP (Franklin BSP Capital) Graham Number : $16.02 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Franklin BSP Capital 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 (2024-12-12), the stock price of Franklin BSP Capital is $11.30. Franklin BSP Capital's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $16.02. Therefore, Franklin BSP Capital's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.76.

The historical rank and industry rank for Franklin BSP Capital's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

FRBP' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.69   Med: 0.73   Max: 0.76
Current: 0.71

During the past 0 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Franklin BSP Capital was 0.76. The lowest was 0.69. And the median was 0.73.

FRBP's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
52.09% of 1223 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.69 vs FRBP: 0.71

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


Franklin BSP Capital Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Franklin BSP Capital'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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Franklin BSP Capital Graham Number Chart

Franklin BSP Capital Annual Data
Trend
Graham Number

Franklin BSP Capital Quarterly Data
Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - - 14.75 16.02

Competitive Comparison of Franklin BSP Capital's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Franklin BSP Capital'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.


Franklin BSP Capital's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Franklin BSP Capital's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Franklin BSP Capital's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Franklin BSP Capital Graham Number Calculation

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

Franklin BSP Capital's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in . 20 is calculated as

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

Franklin BSP Capital's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*14.444*0.68)
=14.87

* 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.


Franklin BSP Capital  (OTCPK:FRBP) 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.

Franklin BSP Capital's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2024 )
=11.30/14.87
=0.76

* 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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Franklin BSP Capital Business Description

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Address
9 West 57th Street, 49th Floor, Suite 4920, New York, NY, USA, 10019
Franklin BSP Capital Corp is a an externally managed closed-end management investment company whose investment objective is to generate both current income capital and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. The Company invests in first and second lien senior secured loans, and to a lesser extent, mezzanine loans, unsecured loans and equity of predominantly private U.S. middle market companies.

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