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Wise (FRA:6WS) Graham Number : €2.11 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Wise 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 Wise is €9.40. Wise's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was €2.11. Therefore, Wise's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 4.46.

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

FRA:6WS' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.77   Med: 8.93   Max: 24.16
Current: 4.39

During the past 5 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Wise was 24.16. The lowest was 3.77. And the median was 8.93.

FRA:6WS's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
75.26% of 1354 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.22 vs FRA:6WS: 4.39

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


Wise Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Wise'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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Wise Graham Number Chart

Wise Annual Data
Trend Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Graham Number
0.18 0.28 0.49 0.62 1.32

Wise Semi-Annual Data
Mar19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.52 0.61 0.84 1.32 2.11

Competitive Comparison of Wise's Graham Number

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Wise'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.


Wise's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Wise Graham Number Calculation

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

Wise's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.626*0.124)
=1.32

Wise's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.828*0.238)
=2.11

* 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.


Wise  (FRA:6WS) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=9.40/2.11
=4.46

* 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.


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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Wise (FRA:6WS) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
56 Shoreditch High Street, 6th Floor, Tea Building, London, GBR, E1 6JJ
Wise is a currency conversion platform utilizing a peer-to-peer network to reduce transfer costs. The group focuses primarily on private clients and small and midsize enterprises. By operating local accounts in each jurisdiction Wise sends money to or receives money from, this fintech offers faster and cheaper currency transfer services than incumbents (banks). Wise has started to broaden its product offering, issuing its clients debit cards and allowing customers to invest funds into various asset-management products.

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