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KNS Co (XKRX:432470) Graham Number : ₩5,502.61 (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is KNS Co 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 (2025-05-06), the stock price of KNS Co is ₩10650.00. KNS Co's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was ₩5,502.61. Therefore, KNS Co's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.94.

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

XKRX:432470' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.86   Med: 3.66   Max: 5.44
Current: 1.94

During the past 4 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of KNS Co was 5.44. The lowest was 1.86. And the median was 3.66.

XKRX:432470's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
60.63% of 2207 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.58 vs XKRX:432470: 1.94

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


KNS Co Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for KNS Co'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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KNS Co Graham Number Chart

KNS Co Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Graham Number
2,917.66 8,142.50 5,773.03 5,725.47

KNS Co Quarterly Data
Dec21 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7,403.13 5,160.89 4,317.09 4,185.11 5,502.61

Competitive Comparison of KNS Co's Graham Number

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, KNS Co'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.


KNS Co's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, KNS Co's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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


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KNS Co Graham Number Calculation

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

KNS Co's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*6225.286*234.035)
=5,725.47

KNS Co's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*6225.286*216.17)
=5,502.61

* 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.


KNS Co  (XKRX:432470) 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.

KNS Co's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2024 )
=10650.00/5,502.61
=1.94

* 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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KNS Co Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
446-9, Seotan-ro, Seotan-myeon, Gyeonggi-do, Pyeongtaek-si, 17704, KOR
KNS Co Ltd is a company which focuses on the design and production of automation equipment, where it supplies a variety of automation equipment products such as automobile parts which includes door connectors, terminal pressers and semiconductor parts vacuum packaging machines. Their main product is automated equipment that manufactures CIDs which is current interrupting devices that are mounted on cylindrical batteries, among secondary batteries. In addition, their main product line is automated equipment that manufactures BMA parts which are known as battery overheating detection devices equipped with multiple pouch-type batteries.

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