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InterDigital (InterDigital) Graham Number : $40.30 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is InterDigital 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 (2024-04-25), the stock price of InterDigital is $99.91. InterDigital's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $40.30. Therefore, InterDigital's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.48.

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

IDCC' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.64   Med: 2.7   Max: 6.85
Current: 2.48

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of InterDigital was 6.85. The lowest was 1.64. And the median was 2.70.

IDCC's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
55.63% of 1350 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.19 vs IDCC: 2.48

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


InterDigital Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for InterDigital'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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InterDigital Graham Number Chart

InterDigital Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.95 18.70 25.25 30.16 40.62

InterDigital Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 30.10 36.73 35.16 38.04 40.30

Competitive Comparison of InterDigital's Graham Number

For the Software - Application subindustry, InterDigital'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.


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

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

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



InterDigital Graham Number Calculation

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

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

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*9.622*7.62)
=40.62

InterDigital's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*9.622*7.5)
=40.30

* 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.


InterDigital  (NAS:IDCC) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=99.91/40.30
=2.48

* 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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InterDigital (InterDigital) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
200 Bellevue Parkway, Suite 300, Wilmington, DE, USA, 19809-3727
InterDigital Inc is a research and development company focused on wireless, visual, and related technologies. It designs and develops technologies that enable connected, immersive experiences in a broad range of communications and entertainment products and services. The majority of revenue is generated from fixed-fee patent license agreements, with a smaller portion coming from variable royalty agreements. Geographically it operates in the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Europe, Out of which the majority is from the United States.
Executives
Joshua D. Schmidt officer: CLO & Corp Sec 200 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, SUITE 300, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Rajesh Pankaj officer: Chief Technology Officer 200 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, SUITE 300, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Eeva K. Hakoranta officer: Chief Licensing Officer 200 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, SUITE 300, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Eric Cohen officer: Chief Strategy& Growth Officer 5220 LAS VIRGENES ROAD, CALABASAS CA 91302
Pierre-yves Lesaicherre director C/O INTERDIGITAL, INC., 200 BELLEVUE PKWY, STE 300, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Markley John D. Jr. director COLUMBIA CAPITAL, 201 NORTH UNION STREET, SUITE VA 22314
Samir Armaly director C/O XPERI HOLDING CORPORATION, 3025 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
John A Kritzmacher director C/O GLOBAL CROSSING LIMITED, 200 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300, FLORHAM PARK NJ 07932
Jean F Rankin director 1110 AMERICAN PARKWAY NE, ALLENTOWN PA 18109
Richard Brezski officer: Chief Accounting Officer 781 THIRD AVENUE, KING OF PRUSSIA PA 19406-1409
Derek K Aberle director 5775 MOREHOUSE DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Henry Tirri officer: Chief Technology Officer 400 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 1500, STAMFORD CT 06901
Stewart D Hutcheson director 5887 COPLEY DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92111
Joan H Gillman director C/O AIRGAIN, INC., 3611 VALLEY CENTRE DRIVE, SUITE 150, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
Lawrence Liren Chen director, officer: President and CEO 200 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, SUITE 300, WILMINGTON DE 19809