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Les Gaz Industriels (XMAU:GIL.I0000) Graham Number : MUR112.77 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Les Gaz Industriels 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 (2024-06-05), the stock price of Les Gaz Industriels is MUR49.90. Les Gaz Industriels's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was MUR112.77. Therefore, Les Gaz Industriels's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.44.

The historical rank and industry rank for Les Gaz Industriels's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

XMAU:GIL.I0000' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.25   Med: 0.81   Max: 4.19
Current: 0.44

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Les Gaz Industriels was 4.19. The lowest was 0.25. And the median was 0.81.

XMAU:GIL.I0000's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
95.09% of 1141 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 1.47 vs XMAU:GIL.I0000: 0.44

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


Les Gaz Industriels Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Les Gaz Industriels'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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Les Gaz Industriels Graham Number Chart

Les Gaz Industriels Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - 118.43 72.35 105.72

Les Gaz Industriels Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 - 54.61 106.09 98.21 112.77

Competitive Comparison of Les Gaz Industriels's Graham Number

For the Chemicals subindustry, Les Gaz Industriels'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.


Les Gaz Industriels's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Les Gaz Industriels's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Les Gaz Industriels's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Les Gaz Industriels Graham Number Calculation

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

Les Gaz Industriels's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*95.196*5.218)
=105.72

Les Gaz Industriels'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*96.209*5.875)
=112.77

* 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.


Les Gaz Industriels  (XMAU:GIL.I0000) 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.

Les Gaz Industriels's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=49.90/112.77
=0.44

* 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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Les Gaz Industriels (XMAU:GIL.I0000) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Pailles Road, G.R.N.W, P.O. Box 673, Bell Village, MUS
Les Gaz Industriels Ltd manufactures and distributes medical and industrial gases in bulk and in cylinders as well as gas equipment, personal protective equipment, and welding accessories. Its medical gases include oxygen, air, entonox and nitrous oxide gases that are mainly used in hospitals, clinics, and for medical and surgical treatments; and industrial gases comprise nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon, hydrogen, helium, and acetylene gases, which are used in a range of industries, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, power, steelmaking, metals, food and water. Geographically all the operations function through Mauritius. It caters to the domestic market and earns key revenue from international sales of products.

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