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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C (LSE:SIGC) Graham Number : £1.07 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C 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 (2024-06-21), the stock price of Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C is £0.508. Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £1.07. Therefore, Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.47.

The historical rank and industry rank for Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:SIGC' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.29   Med: 0.43   Max: 0.56
Current: 0.47

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C was 0.56. The lowest was 0.29. And the median was 0.43.

LSE:SIGC's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
85.69% of 1139 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs LSE:SIGC: 0.47

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


Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C'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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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Graham Number Chart

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 1.40 - 2.05 - 1.07

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Semi-Annual Data
Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.05 - - 1.72 1.07

Competitive Comparison of Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C'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.


Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Graham Number Calculation

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

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.809*0.063)
=1.07

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.809*0.063)
=1.07

* 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.


Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C  (LSE:SIGC) 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.

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=0.508/1.07
=0.47

* 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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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C (LSE:SIGC) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Royal Avenue, 1 Royal Plaza, St Peter Port, GGY, GY1 2HL
Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Ltd is a closed-ended investment company. Its investment objective is to realize capital growth from investment in a target company identified by the investment manager to generate a significant capital return for shareholders. The Company's investment policy is to invest in a publicly quoted company that it considers to be undervalued as a result of operational deficiencies and which it believes can be rectified by the Investment Manager's active involvement, thereby increasing the value of the investment.

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