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Atmel (ATML) Graham Number : $1.54 (As of Dec. 2015)


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What is Atmel 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 Atmel is $8.14. Atmel's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was $1.54. Therefore, Atmel's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 5.27.

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

ATML's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Semiconductors industry.
Industry Median: 1.95
* 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.


Atmel Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Atmel'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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Atmel Graham Number Chart

Atmel Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.87 1.78 - 1.60 1.49

Atmel Quarterly Data
Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15
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 1.64 1.93 1.64 1.14 1.54

Competitive Comparison of Atmel's Graham Number

For the Semiconductors subindustry, Atmel'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.


Atmel's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Atmel's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Atmel Graham Number Calculation

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

Atmel's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*1.534*0.064)
=1.49

Atmel's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*1.534*0.069)
=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.


Atmel  (NAS:ATML) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2015 )
=8.14/1.54
=5.27

* 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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Atmel (ATML) Business Description

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Atmel Corp was originally incorporated in California on December 5, 1984 and was reincorporated in Delaware in October 1999. The Company designs, develops and supplies microcontrollers, which are self-contained computers-on-a-chip. It organizes its business into four reportable operating segments; Microcontrollers, Nonvolatile Memories, Radio Frequency, and Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Its Microcontrollers segment includes Atmel's maXTouch capacitive touch product families and its general purpose microcontroller and microprocessor families, AVR 8-bit and 32-bit products, ARM based products, Atmel's 8051 8-bit products, designated commercial wireless products, including low power radio and SOC products that meet Zigbee and Wi-Fi specifications and optimized products for mobile sensor hub, smart energy, touch button and LED lighting applications. Its Nonvolatile Memories segment includes electrically erasable programmable read-only "EEPROM" and erasable programmable read-only memory "EPROM" devices. Its Radio Frequency and Automotive segment includes automotive electronics, wireless and wired devices for industrial, consumer and automotive applications and foundry services. Its Application Specific Integrated Circuits segment includes custom application specific integrated circuits designed to meet specialized single-customer requirements for its high performance devices, including products that provide hardware security for embedded digital systems, products with military and aerospace applications and application specific standard products for space applications, power management and secure cryptographic memory products. The Company markets its products in various countries to a diverse base of OEMs serving commercial markets. It also sells its products to OEM accounts through its direct sales force, using manufacturers' representatives or through national and regional distributors. It sells its products in United States, Asia and Europe. Throughout its product line, the Company competes with a number of semiconductor manufacturers, such as Cypress, Freescale, Infineon, Intel, Microchip, NXP Semiconductors, ON Semiconductor, Renesas, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, Synaptics, and Texas Instruments. The Company relies on patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as nondisclosure agreements and other methods to protect its proprietary technologies and processes.
Executives
Steven Laub director, officer: President & CEO 5555 NE MOORE CT., HILLSBORO OR 97124
Stephen A Skaggs officer: SVP & CFO 5555 NE MOORE CT., HILLSBORO OR 97124
Charles Carinalli director
David Sugishita director 2325 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Jack L Saltich director 9460 NORTH 57TH STREET, PARADISE VALLEY AZ 85253
Papken Der Torossian director 1250 RELIANCE WAY, FREMONT CA 94539
Jamie Samath officer: VP & Corporate Controller NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR, 2900 SEMICONDUCTOR DR, M/S C1-640, SANTA CLARA CA 95051
Stephen Cumming officer: VP Finance and CFO 2325 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Walter Lifsey officer: EVP & Chief Operating Officer C/O GATES INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION PLC, 1144 FIFTEENTH STREET, SUITE 1400, DENVER CO 80202
T Peter Thomas director 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, 2-290 MENLO PARK CA 94025
Francis P Barton director C/O INVENTERGY GLOBAL, INC., 900 E. HAMILTON AVENUE, SUITE 180, CAMPBELL CA 95008

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