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Aurizon Holdings (ASX:AZJ) Graham Number : A$3.46 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Aurizon Holdings 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 (2024-04-27), the stock price of Aurizon Holdings is A$3.87. Aurizon Holdings's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was A$3.46. Therefore, Aurizon Holdings's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.12.

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

ASX:AZJ' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.87   Med: 1.22   Max: 1.69
Current: 1.12

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Aurizon Holdings was 1.69. The lowest was 0.87. And the median was 1.22.

ASX:AZJ's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
56.13% of 734 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 1 vs ASX:AZJ: 1.12

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


Aurizon Holdings Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Aurizon Holdings'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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Aurizon Holdings Graham Number Chart

Aurizon Holdings 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 3.54 3.90 4.03 3.78 3.02

Aurizon Holdings 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 4.02 3.78 3.22 2.98 3.46

Competitive Comparison of Aurizon Holdings's Graham Number

For the Railroads subindustry, Aurizon Holdings'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.


Aurizon Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Aurizon Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Aurizon Holdings Graham Number Calculation

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

Aurizon Holdings'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*2.245*0.181)
=3.02

Aurizon Holdings'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*2.274*0.234)
=3.46

* 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.


Aurizon Holdings  (ASX:AZJ) 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.

Aurizon Holdings's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=3.87/3.46
=1.12

* 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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Aurizon Holdings (ASX:AZJ) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
900 Ann Street, Level 8, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD, AUS, 4006
Aurizon operates rail haulage of coal, iron ore, and freight, and owns a regulated rail network in Queensland. Coal haulage from mine to port contributes close to 40% of earnings. The non-coal bulk segment contributes about 10% of earnings and undertakes the rail haulage of agricultural, mining, and industrial products. The rail network, composed of 2,670 kilometres of coal rail network under a 99-year lease from the Queensland government, contributes around half of earnings.

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