Interplay Entertainment (Interplay Entertainment) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Mar. 2011)

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What is Interplay Entertainment 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 (2024-06-19), the stock price of Interplay Entertainment is $0.0001. Interplay Entertainment's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2011 was $N/A. Therefore, Interplay Entertainment's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

IPLY's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked ^*
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 2.14
* 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.

Interplay Entertainment Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Interplay Entertainment's Graham Number can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Interplay Entertainment's Graham Number

For the Software - Application subindustry, Interplay Entertainment'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.

Interplay Entertainment's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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

Interplay Entertainment Graham Number Calculation

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

Interplay Entertainment's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2010 is calculated as

	Graham Number
=	sqrt of (22.5	*	Tangible Book per Share	*	EPS without NRI)
=	sqrt of (22.5	*	-0.023	*	-0.01)
=	N/A

Interplay Entertainment's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2011 is calculated as

	Graham Number
=	sqrt of (22.5	*	Tangible Book per Share	*	EPS without NRI (TTM))
=	sqrt of (22.5	*	-0.026	*	-0.01)
=	N/A

Interplay Entertainment (OTCPK:IPLY) 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.

Interplay Entertainment's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number	=	Share Price (Today)	/	Graham number (Q: Mar. 2011 )
	=	0.0001	/	N/A
	=	N/A

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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