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Mercury Securities Group Bhd (XKLS:0285) Graham Number : RM0.22 (As of Apr. 2024)


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What is Mercury Securities Group Bhd 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 (2024-12-11), the stock price of Mercury Securities Group Bhd is RM0.345. Mercury Securities Group Bhd's graham number for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2024 was RM0.22. Therefore, Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.54.

The historical rank and industry rank for Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

XKLS:0285' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.57   Med: 1.69   Max: 1.8
Current: 1.57

During the past 5 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Mercury Securities Group Bhd was 1.80. The lowest was 1.57. And the median was 1.69.

XKLS:0285's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
61.13% of 548 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 1.24 vs XKLS:0285: 1.57

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


Mercury Securities Group Bhd Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Mercury Securities Group Bhd'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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Mercury Securities Group Bhd Graham Number Chart

Mercury Securities Group Bhd Annual Data
Trend Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Graham Number
0.18 0.20 0.24 0.22 0.20

Mercury Securities Group Bhd Semi-Annual Data
Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23 Apr24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 0.22 0.22 0.20 0.22

Competitive Comparison of Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Graham Number

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Mercury Securities Group Bhd'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.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Mercury Securities Group Bhd Graham Number Calculation

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

Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.182*0.01)
=0.20

Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.185*0.012)
=0.22

* 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.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd  (XKLS:0285) 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.

Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Apr. 2024 )
=0.345/0.22
=1.54

* 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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Mercury Securities Group Bhd Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No. 2 Jalan Solaris, L-7-2, Solaris Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, MYS, 50480
Mercury Securities Group Bhd is an investment holding company and through its subsidiaries, It is principally engaged in stockbroking, corporate finance advisory and other related businesses as well as the provision of nominee and custodian services. Mercury provides stockbroking services comprising execution of trades of securities listed on Bursa Securities and foreign stock exchanges mainly in Singapore, Hong Kong and the USA, as well as margin financing facility services, nominees, custodians and related services. The company has two segments: Stockbroker and Corporate finance. It generated maximum revenue from Stockbroking segment.

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