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Octopus Apollo VCT (LSE:OAP3) Graham Number : £0.73 (As of Jul. 2023)


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What is Octopus Apollo VCT 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 (2024-05-26), the stock price of Octopus Apollo VCT is £0.471. Octopus Apollo VCT's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was £0.73. Therefore, Octopus Apollo VCT's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.64.

The historical rank and industry rank for Octopus Apollo VCT's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:OAP3' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.45   Med: 0.95   Max: 1.34
Current: 0.65

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Octopus Apollo VCT was 1.34. The lowest was 0.45. And the median was 0.95.

LSE:OAP3's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
65.29% of 1135 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs LSE:OAP3: 0.65

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


Octopus Apollo VCT Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Octopus Apollo VCT'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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Octopus Apollo VCT Graham Number Chart

Octopus Apollo VCT Annual Data
Trend Jan14 Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 0.41 0.84 0.90 0.85

Octopus Apollo VCT Semi-Annual Data
Jan14 Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23
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 1.02 0.90 0.89 0.85 0.73

Competitive Comparison of Octopus Apollo VCT's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Octopus Apollo VCT'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.


Octopus Apollo VCT's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Octopus Apollo VCT's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Octopus Apollo VCT Graham Number Calculation

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

Octopus Apollo VCT's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.532*0.06)
=0.85

Octopus Apollo VCT's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.531*0.045)
=0.73

* 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.


Octopus Apollo VCT  (LSE:OAP3) 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.

Octopus Apollo VCT's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jul. 2023 )
=0.471/0.73
=0.64

* 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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Octopus Apollo VCT (LSE:OAP3) Business Description

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Address
33 Holborn, 6th Floor, London, GBR, EC1N 2HT
Octopus Apollo VCT PLC is a venture capital trust company based in the United Kingdom. The company aims to provide shareholders with attractive tax-free dividends and long-term capital growth by investing in a diverse portfolio of predominantly unquoted companies. The company's portfolio of investments comprises of various unquoted investment instruments, including ordinary and preference shares, loan stocks and convertible securities, to achieve an appropriate balance of income and capital growth. It holds a diversified portfolio by investing in a broad range of industry sectors.

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