Bancroft Fund (Bancroft Fund) Graham Number

Bancroft Fund Annual Data
	Trend	Oct12	Oct13	Oct14	Oct15	Oct16	Oct17	Oct18	Oct19	Oct20	Oct21
Graham Number							40.01	23.70	45.19	51.44	69.83

Bancroft Fund Semi-Annual Data
	Apr13	Oct13	Apr14	Oct14	Apr15	Oct15	Apr16	Oct16	Apr17	Oct17	Apr18	Oct18	Apr19	Oct19	Apr20	Oct20	Apr21	Oct21	Apr22	Oct22
Graham Number																50.74	85.93	69.03	-	-

For the Asset Management subindustry, Bancroft Fund'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.

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Bancroft Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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

Bancroft Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

Bancroft Fund's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2021 is calculated as

Bancroft Fund's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2022 is calculated as

* 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.

Bancroft Fund  (AMEX:BCV) 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.

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

* 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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