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Armada Mercantile (XCNQ:ARM) Graham Number : C$N/A (As of Aug. 2024)


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What is Armada Mercantile 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 (2024-12-13), the stock price of Armada Mercantile is C$0.305. Armada Mercantile's graham number for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2024 was C$N/A. Therefore, Armada Mercantile's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Armada Mercantile was 30.00. The lowest was 0.06. And the median was 0.30.

XCNQ:ARM's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Capital Markets industry.
Industry Median: 1.25
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Graham-Number only.

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


Armada Mercantile Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Armada Mercantile'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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Armada Mercantile Graham Number Chart

Armada Mercantile Annual Data
Trend Feb15 Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23 Feb24
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 0.29 1.42 0.26 -

Armada Mercantile Quarterly Data
Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24 May24 Aug24
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 0.08 - - - -

Competitive Comparison of Armada Mercantile's Graham Number

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Armada Mercantile'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.


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

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

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



Armada Mercantile Graham Number Calculation

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

Armada Mercantile's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.305*-0.003)
=N/A

Armada Mercantile's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.31*-0.003)
=N/A

* 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.


Armada Mercantile  (XCNQ:ARM) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Aug. 2024 )
=0.305/N/A
=N/A

* 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.


Armada Mercantile Graham Number Related Terms

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Armada Mercantile Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1616 West 3rd Avenue, Suite 100, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6J 1K2
Armada Mercantile Ltd is engaged in the business of investing in new and existing businesses and organizations. The company is a financial services company that focuses on merchant banking through its wholly-owned subsidiary Armada Group USA, Inc. The company, through its investment in Oxygen Funding, Inc. offers commercial finance services to companies; internationally, including account receivables "factoring", supply chain, equipment leasing, merchant cash advance and purchase order, and other types of specialized finance.

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