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Plus500 (Plus500) Graham Number : $24.14 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Plus500 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 (2024-04-29), the stock price of Plus500 is $24.00. Plus500's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $24.14. Therefore, Plus500's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.99.

The historical rank and industry rank for Plus500's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

PLSQF' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.82   Med: 1.1   Max: 2.14
Current: 1.13

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Plus500 was 2.14. The lowest was 0.82. And the median was 1.10.

PLSQF's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
51.53% of 522 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 1.18 vs PLSQF: 1.13

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


Plus500 Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Plus500'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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Plus500 Graham Number Chart

Plus500 Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.90 23.86 20.82 25.90 24.14

Plus500 Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 20.82 26.02 25.90 22.82 24.14

Competitive Comparison of Plus500's Graham Number

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Plus500'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.


Plus500's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, Plus500's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Plus500's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Plus500 Graham Number Calculation

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

Plus500'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*8.298*3.12)
=24.14

Plus500'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*8.298*3.12)
=24.14

* 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.


Plus500  (OTCPK:PLSQF) 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.

Plus500's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=24.00/24.14
=0.99

* 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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Plus500 (Plus500) Business Description

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Address
Matam, Building 25, Haifa, ISR, 3190500
Plus500 Ltd is an online provider of Contracts for Difference (CFDs). The company has developed and operates an online trading platform for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally over more than 2,200 different underlying global financial instruments comprising equities, indices, commodities, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and foreign exchange. The company enables retail customers to trade CFDs in more than 50 countries and over 31 languages. The trading platform is accessible from multiple operating systems including Windows, smartphones: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, tablets: iOS, Android, and Surface, and web browsers. The group is engaged in three operating sectors: CFD trading; share dealing; and futures and options on futures.

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