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CAL Bank (XGHA:CAL) Graham Number : GHSN/A (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is CAL 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 (2024-06-19), the stock price of CAL Bank is GHS0.35. CAL Bank's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was GHSN/A. Therefore, CAL Bank's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of CAL Bank was 1.17. The lowest was 0.19. And the median was 0.40.

XGHA:CAL's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 0.61
* 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.


CAL Bank Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for CAL 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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CAL Bank Graham Number Chart

CAL 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 2.21 2.81 3.02 - -

CAL Bank 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 3.02 4.07 - - -

Competitive Comparison of CAL Bank's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, CAL 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.


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

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

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



CAL Bank Graham Number Calculation

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

CAL 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*-0.272*-0.821)
=N/A

CAL 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*-0.272*-0.692)
=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.


CAL Bank  (XGHA:CAL) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=0.35/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.


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CAL Bank (XGHA:CAL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
23 Independence Avenue, P.O. Box 14596, Accra, GHA
CAL Bank Ltd is engaged in providing banking solutions. Its reportable segments are Corporate Banking, Retail & Business Banking, Treasury, Brokerage, & Asset Management. Corporate Banking is responsible for providing loans & other credit facilities, deposits & other transactions & balances to corporate clients, institutional clients, & public sector entities. The Treasury segment undertakes the Bank's funding & centralized risk management activities through borrowings & investing in liquid assets. The Retail & Business Banking segment provides loans & overdrafts, & handles the deposits & other transactions of SMEs, & individual customers such as funds transfer, standing orders, and ATM Card services. The majority is from Retail & business banking. The key revenue is from Greater Accra.