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VMD (Viemed Healthcare) Graham Number : $3.64 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Viemed Healthcare 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 (2024-12-15), the stock price of Viemed Healthcare is $8.74. Viemed Healthcare's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $3.64. Therefore, Viemed Healthcare's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.40.

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

VMD' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.11   Med: 1.92   Max: 3.32
Current: 2.4

During the past 8 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Viemed Healthcare was 3.32. The lowest was 1.11. And the median was 1.92.

VMD's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
62.13% of 375 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 1.88 vs VMD: 2.40

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


Viemed Healthcare Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Viemed Healthcare'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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Viemed Healthcare Graham Number Chart

Viemed Healthcare Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 2.33 5.88 3.50 3.09 3.57

Viemed Healthcare Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 3.32 3.58 3.64 3.41 3.64

Competitive Comparison of Viemed Healthcare's Graham Number

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Viemed Healthcare'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.


Viemed Healthcare's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Viemed Healthcare's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Viemed Healthcare Graham Number Calculation

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

Viemed Healthcare'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*2.17*0.261)
=3.57

Viemed Healthcare's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*2.34*0.252)
=3.64

* 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.


Viemed Healthcare  (NAS:VMD) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2024 )
=8.74/3.64
=2.40

* 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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Viemed Healthcare Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
625 E. Kaliste Saloom Road, Lafayette, LA, USA, 70508
Viemed Healthcare Inc is a provider of medical equipment and home therapy to patients with respiratory disease, oxygen problems, sleep apnea and PAP treatment. The company also provides services such as respiratory disease management, neuromuscular care, in-home sleep testing and sleep apnea treatment, oxygen therapy, respiratory equipment rentals, and healthcare staffing services. The company generates majority its revenue from medical equipment rental, sales and supply.
Executives
Nitin Kaushal director 625 E KALISTE SALOOM RD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Randy E. Dobbs director C/O VIEMED HEALTHCARE, INC, 625 E. KALISTE SALOOM RD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Sabrina Heltz director 625 E. KALISTE SALOOM ROAD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Jeremy Trahan officer: Chief Legal Officer 625 E. KALISTE SALOOM RD., LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Timothy Smokoff director 625 E KALISTE SALOOM RD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Bruce D Greenstein director 901 HUGH WALLIS ROAD SOUTH, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
William Todd Zehnder director, officer: Chief Operating Officer 400 E. KALISTE SALOOM ROAD, SUITE 6000, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Casey Hoyt director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 625 E. KALISTE SALOOM RD., LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Michael Moore officer: President 625 E. KALISTE SALOOM RD., LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Trae Fitzgerald officer: Chief Financial Officer 625 E KALISTE SALOOM RD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
William Frazier director, officer: Chief Medical Officer 625 E KALISTE SALOOM RD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Jerome Cambre officer: Vice President of Sales 625 E KALISTE SALOOM RD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508
Ewell Patrick Eagan officer: General Counsel 625 E. KALISTE SALOOM ROAD, LAFAYETTE LA 70508