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Towne Bank (Towne Bank) Graham Number : $32.05 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Towne Bank 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 Towne Bank is $25.90. Towne Bank's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $32.05. Therefore, Towne Bank's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.81.

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

TOWN' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.8   Med: 0.95   Max: 1.64
Current: 0.81

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Towne Bank was 1.64. The lowest was 0.80. And the median was 0.95.

TOWN's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
71.38% of 1373 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.63 vs TOWN: 0.81

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


Towne Bank Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Towne Bank'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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Towne Bank Graham Number Chart

Towne Bank 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 26.79 28.10 35.84 33.28 31.45

Towne Bank 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 33.70 33.64 33.58 32.96 32.05

Competitive Comparison of Towne Bank's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Towne Bank'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.


Towne Bank's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Towne Bank's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Towne Bank Graham Number Calculation

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

Towne Bank'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*20.282*2.167)
=31.45

Towne Bank'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*20.282*2.251)
=32.05

* 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.


Towne Bank  (NAS:TOWN) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=25.90/32.05
=0.81

* 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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Towne Bank (Towne Bank) Business Description

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Address
5716 High Street, Portsmouth, VA, USA, 23703
Towne Bank is a financial services company that places special emphasis on serving the financial needs of individuals, commercial enterprises, and professionals, offering retail and commercial banking services to numerous markets in Virginia and North Carolina. The company has three reportable segments: Banking Segment provides loan and deposit services to retail and commercial customers and provides commercial mortgage brokerage services and investment and asset management services, and the Realty Segment provides residential real estate services and mortgage loans. It also provides resort property management and residential and commercial title insurance, and Insurance Segment provides provide a wide array of insurance products, including property, casualty, life, and health insurance.

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