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Histogen (Histogen) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Histogen 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 (2024-05-16), the stock price of Histogen is $0.20. Histogen's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $N/A. Therefore, Histogen's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

HSTO's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 2.18
* 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.


Histogen Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Histogen'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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Histogen Graham Number Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Histogen's Graham Number

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Histogen'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.


Histogen's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Histogen's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Histogen Graham Number Calculation

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

Histogen's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*3.372*-3.46)
=N/A

Histogen'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*1.273*-2.734)
=N/A

* 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.


Histogen  (OTCPK:HSTO) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=0.20/N/A
=N/A

* 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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Histogen (Histogen) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
10655 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121
Histogen Inc is a clinical-stage therapeutics company focused on developing proprietary hypoxia-generated growth factor technology platforms and stem cell-free biologic products as potential first-in-class restorative therapeutics that ignite the body's natural process to repair and maintain healthy biological function. Under its biologics technology platform, the product candidates in development are HST-003, a treatment for joint cartilage repair, and HST-004, a treatment for spinal disc repair. It also has a pipeline of clinical and preclinical small molecule pan-caspase and caspase selective inhibitors focused on treatments for infectious and inflammatory diseases that the company intends to develop.
Executives
Joyce Reyes officer: See Remarks 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Richard W Pascoe director, officer: See Remarks C/O SEELOS THERAPEUTICS, INC., 300 PARK AVENUE, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Rochelle Fuhrmann director C/O WARNER CHILCOTT CORPORATION, 100 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, ROCKAWAY NJ 07866
Susan Richards Windham-bannister director 78 BLANCHARD ROAD, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Moya Daniels officer: See Remarks 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Susan A. Knudson officer: See Remarks 9191 TOWNE CENTRE DRIVE, SUITE 400, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Jonathan Jackson director, 10 percent owner C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Gail K Naughton officer: See Remarks C. R. BARD, INC., 730 CENTRAL AVENUE, MURRAY HILL NJ 07974
David Hugh Crean director C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Stephen Chang director 12912 CAMINO DEL VALLE, POWAY CA 92064
Brian Satz director C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Yizhuo Zhang director C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Martin Latterich officer: See Remarks C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Steven J Mento director C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC., 501 CANAL BLVD SUITE A-100, RICHMOND CA 94804
Keith W Marshall officer: EVP, COO & CFO C/O CONATUS PHARMACEUTICALS INC., 16745 WEST BERNARDO DRIVE, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92127