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PGIM High Yield Fund (PGIM High Yield Fund) Graham Number : $14.89 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is PGIM High Yield Fund 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 (2024-04-26), the stock price of PGIM High Yield Fund is $12.47. PGIM High Yield Fund's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $14.89. Therefore, PGIM High Yield Fund's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.84.

The historical rank and industry rank for PGIM High Yield Fund's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

ISD' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.45   Med: 0.75   Max: 2.3
Current: 0.84

During the past 6 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of PGIM High Yield Fund was 2.30. The lowest was 0.45. And the median was 0.75.

ISD's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
53.74% of 1124 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.77 vs ISD: 0.84

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


PGIM High Yield Fund Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for PGIM High Yield Fund'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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PGIM High Yield Fund Graham Number Chart

PGIM High Yield Fund Annual Data
Trend May18 May19 May20 May21 Jul22 Jul23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 18.90 5.82 36.00 - 13.76

PGIM High Yield Fund Semi-Annual Data
Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 May20 Nov20 May21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 20.73 - - 12.19 14.89

Competitive Comparison of PGIM High Yield Fund's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, PGIM High Yield Fund'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.


PGIM High Yield Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, PGIM High Yield Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where PGIM High Yield Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



PGIM High Yield Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

PGIM High Yield Fund's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*13.786*0.61)
=13.76

PGIM High Yield Fund's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*13.896*0.709)
=14.89

* 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.


PGIM High Yield Fund  (NYSE:ISD) 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.

PGIM High Yield Fund's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=12.47/14.89
=0.84

* 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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PGIM High Yield Fund (PGIM High Yield Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
655 Broad Street, 6th Floor, Newark, NJ, USA, 07102
PGIM High Yield Fund Inc is a diversified, closed-end management investment company, active in the financial services domain. The Fund's investment objective is to provide a high level of current income. It invests at least 80% of its investable assets in a diversified portfolio of high-yield fixed-income instruments that are rated below investment grade with varying maturities and other investments.
Executives
Brian Reid director C/O PGIM INVESTMENTS LLC, 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Andrew Donohue officer: Chief Compliance Officer 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Brian J Lalli other: Portfolio Manager 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Robert Mccormack officer: Assistant Treasurer 655 BROAD ST., NEWARK NJ 07102
Barry H Evans director C/O PGIM INVESTMENTS, 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Isabelle Sajous officer: Chief Compliance Officer 655 BROAD ST., NEWARK NJ 07102
Michael Joseph Gormally other: Portfolio Manager 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Gregory J Peters other: Co-Chief Investment Officer 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Craig C Dewling other: Deputy CIO 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Michael Lillard other: Portfolio Manager 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Debra Rubano officer: Assistant Secretary 655 BROAD STREET, PRUDENTIAL TOWER SOUTH, NEWARK NJ 07102
Patrick Mcguinness officer: Assistant Secretary 655 BROAD STREET, PRUDENTIAL TOWER SOUTH, 17TH FLOOR, NEWARK NJ 07102
Scott E Benjamin director 655 BROAD ST., NEWARK NJ 07102
Melissa Gonzalez officer: Assistant Secretary 655 BROAD STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Elyse Mclaughlin officer: Assistant Treasurer 655 BROAD ST., NEWARK NJ 07102

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