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Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust (Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust) Graham Number

: $22.61 (As of Nov. 2023)
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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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust is $13.35. Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $22.61. Therefore, Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.59.

The historical rank and industry rank for Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

EFT' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.52   Med: 0.91   Max: 1.56
Current: 0.59

During the past 6 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust was 1.56. The lowest was 0.52. And the median was 0.91.

EFT's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
71.23% of 1126 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs EFT: 0.59

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


Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust'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.

* Premium members only.

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Annual Data
Trend May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only 12.74 - 27.23 - 12.12

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Semi-Annual Data
Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 May20 Nov20 May21 Nov21 May22 Nov22 May23 Nov23
Graham Number Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 18.12 - - 12.12 22.61

Competitive Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust'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.


Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Graham Number Calculation

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

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*12.704*0.514)
=12.12

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*13.17*1.725)
=22.61

* 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.


Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust  (NYSE:EFT) 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.

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Nov. 2023 )
=13.35/22.61
=0.59

* 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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Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust (Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Two International Place, Boston, MA, USA, 02110
Eaton Vance Floating-rate Income Trust is a closed-end management investment company. The company's objective is to provide a high level of current income and its secondary objective is capital appreciation.
Executives
Kenneth A Topping officer: President TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Anchal Pachnanda officer: Officer TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Alan C. Bowser other: Trustee TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Nicholas Dilorenzo officer: Secretary TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Keith Quinton other: Trustee TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Sarah Anne Choi other: Portfolio Manager TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Nancy A Wiser other: Trustee WELLS FARGO FUNDS MANAGEMENT, 200 BERKELEY STREET, 19TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Jill Damon officer: Secretary TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Kimberly M Roessiger officer: Secretary TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Saba Capital Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Deidre E Walsh officer: Vice President TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Eric Stein officer: President TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02110
Boaz Weinstein 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Catherine Mcdermott other: Portfolio Manager 255 STATE STREET, BOSTON MA 02109
Andrew Sveen other: Portfolio Manager 255 STATE STREET, BOSTON MA 02109