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.
The historical rank and industry rank for First Capital Bancorp's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
FCVA's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 0.63 * 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.
First Capital Bancorp Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for First Capital Bancorp'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.
Competitive Comparison of First Capital Bancorp's Graham Number
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, First Capital Bancorp'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.
First Capital Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, First Capital Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where First Capital Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
First Capital Bancorp Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
First Capital Bancorp's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 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.
First Capital Bancorp (NAS:FCVA) 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.
First Capital Bancorp's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Sep. 2015 )
=
5.56
/
5.54
=
1.00
* 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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First Capital Bancorp (First Capital Bancorp) Business Description
First Capital Bancorp Inc was incorporated under Virginia law in 2006. The Company is a bank holding company and conducts its operations through its wholly-owned subsidiary, First Capital Bank. The Bank is a community oriented financial institution that offers a range of banking and related financial services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals and individuals located in its market area, which consists of the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area, with a current emphasis on western Henrico County, Chesterfield County, the City of Richmond, the Town of Ashland, and the surrounding vicinity. It offers a range of deposit services including checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings accounts and other time deposits of various types, ranging from daily money market accounts to longer-term certificates of deposit. The transaction accounts and time certificates are tailored to its market area at rates competitive to those offered in the area. In addition, it offers certain retirement account services, such as Individual Retirement Accounts, or IRAs. The Bank also offers a range of short-to-medium term commercial and consumer loans. Commercial loans include both secured and unsecured loans for working capital, including inventory and receivables; business expansion, including acquisition of real estate and improvements; and purchase of equipment and machinery; Consumer loans include secured and unsecured loans for financing automobiles, home improvements, education and personal investments. It originates fixed and floating-rate mortgage and real estate construction and acquisition loans. Other services it offers include safe deposit boxes, certain cash management services, traveler's checks, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks and automatic drafts for various accounts, selected on-line banking services and a small and medium-sized businesses courier service. The Company competes with other commercial banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, mortgage banking firms, consumer finance companies, securities brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market mutual funds and other financial institutions operating in the Richmond metropolitan area and elsewhere. As a bank holding company, the Company is subject to regulation under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and the examination and reporting requirements of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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