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A-Mark Precious Metals (STU:AND) Graham Number : €39.95 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is A-Mark Precious Metals 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 (2024-04-30), the stock price of A-Mark Precious Metals is €37.80. A-Mark Precious Metals's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €39.95. Therefore, A-Mark Precious Metals's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.95.

The historical rank and industry rank for A-Mark Precious Metals's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

STU:AND' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.5   Med: 0.92   Max: 4.01
Current: 0.96

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of A-Mark Precious Metals was 4.01. The lowest was 0.50. And the median was 0.92.

STU:AND's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
59.27% of 523 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 1.19 vs STU:AND: 0.96

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


A-Mark Precious Metals Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for A-Mark Precious Metals'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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A-Mark Precious Metals Graham Number Chart

A-Mark Precious Metals Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.26 15.38 32.14 38.75 47.58

A-Mark Precious Metals Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 44.63 46.02 48.40 43.25 39.95

Competitive Comparison of A-Mark Precious Metals's Graham Number

For the Capital Markets subindustry, A-Mark Precious Metals'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.


A-Mark Precious Metals's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where A-Mark Precious Metals's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



A-Mark Precious Metals Graham Number Calculation

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

A-Mark Precious Metals's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*17.227*5.841)
=47.58

A-Mark Precious Metals'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*16.998*4.173)
=39.95

* 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.


A-Mark Precious Metals  (STU:AND) 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.

A-Mark Precious Metals's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=37.80/39.95
=0.95

* 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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A-Mark Precious Metals (STU:AND) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2121 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 6300, El Segundo, CA, USA, 90245
A-Mark Precious Metals Inc is a precious metal trading company. It is principally engaged in the wholesale of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion and related products in the form of bars, wafers, coins, and grains. The company's operating segment includes Wholesale Trading and Ancillary Services; Secured Lending and Direct Sales. It generates maximum revenue from the Wholesale Trading and Ancillary Services segment. The Wholesale Trading and Ancillary Services segment comprises business units such as Industrial, Coin and Bar, Trading and Finance, Storage, Logistics, and Mint. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.

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