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 (2024-05-14), the stock price of LMI Aerospace is $13.99. LMI Aerospace's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 was $N/A. Therefore, LMI Aerospace's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.
The historical rank and industry rank for LMI Aerospace's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
LMIA's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Aerospace & Defense industry.
Industry Median: 2.64 * 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.
LMI Aerospace Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for LMI Aerospace'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 LMI Aerospace's Graham Number
For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, LMI Aerospace'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.
LMI Aerospace's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry
For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, LMI Aerospace's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where LMI Aerospace's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
LMI Aerospace Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
LMI Aerospace's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 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.
LMI Aerospace (NAS:LMIA) 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.
LMI Aerospace's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Mar. 2017 )
=
13.99
/
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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LMI Aerospace (LMI Aerospace) Business Description
LMI Aerospace Inc was founded in 1948. The Company is a supplier of structural assemblies, kits and components, and design engineering services to the aerospace and defense markets. The Company provides a array of manufacturing capabilities, as well as engineering and value-added services to the large commercial, corporate and regional, and military aircraft markets. It also provide prototyping, testing and design capabilities to customers in support of new product development and in-service aircraft. LMI Aerospace is a preferred supplier to aircraft original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 aerospace suppliers. In addition to aerospace products, the Company produces components and assemblies for laser equipment used by semiconductor equipment manufacturers, electronic and electrical wire harnesses, cable assemblies, and mechanical sub-assemblies for the air and rail traffic control, medical equipment, telecommunications, and heavy equipment industries. The Company operates in two business segments consisting of: Aerostructures segment and Engineering Services segment. Its Aerostructures segment fabricates, machines, finishes, integrates, assembles and kits machined and formed close tolerance aluminum, specialty alloy and composite components and higher level assemblies for use by the aerospace and defense industries. The Company also offers its customers value-added services related to the design, production, assembly and distribution of aerospace components and deliver kits of products directly to customer points of use. Its Engineering Services segment provides a complete range of design, engineering and program management services, supporting aircraft product lifecycles from conceptual design, analysis and certification through production support, fleet support, and service life extensions via a complete turnkey engineering solution to OEMs and Tier 1 aerospace suppliers. Its competitors in the aerospace industry consist of a large, fragmented group of companies, including certain business units or affiliates of its customers. The Companys operations are subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state and local laws and substantial regulation by government agencies.
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