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Hollywood Bowl Group (LSE:BOWL) Graham Number : £1.24 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Hollywood Bowl Group 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 (2024-04-29), the stock price of Hollywood Bowl Group is £3.43. Hollywood Bowl Group's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £1.24. Therefore, Hollywood Bowl Group's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.78.

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

LSE:BOWL' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.48   Med: 3.64   Max: 12.76
Current: 2.77

During the past 11 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Hollywood Bowl Group was 12.76. The lowest was 1.48. And the median was 3.64.

LSE:BOWL's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
76.45% of 467 companies
in the Travel & Leisure industry
Industry Median: 1.43 vs LSE:BOWL: 2.77

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


Hollywood Bowl Group Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hollywood Bowl Group'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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Hollywood Bowl Group Graham Number Chart

Hollywood Bowl Group Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.71 - 0.19 1.27 1.23

Hollywood Bowl Group Semi-Annual Data
Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 0.20 1.32 1.27 1.10 1.24

Competitive Comparison of Hollywood Bowl Group's Graham Number

For the Leisure subindustry, Hollywood Bowl Group'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.


Hollywood Bowl Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Hollywood Bowl Group's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hollywood Bowl Group Graham Number Calculation

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

Hollywood Bowl Group's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.341*0.198)
=1.23

Hollywood Bowl Group'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*0.341*0.199)
=1.24

* 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.


Hollywood Bowl Group  (LSE:BOWL) 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.

Hollywood Bowl Group's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=3.43/1.24
=2.78

* 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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Hollywood Bowl Group (LSE:BOWL) Business Description

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Address
Cleveland Road, Focus 31, West Wing, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, GBR, HP2 7BW
Hollywood Bowl Group PLC is a ten-pin bowling operator across the United Kingdom under the Hollywood Bowl, Splitsville and Puttstars brands. The company specializes in operating bowling centres, located on out of town multi-use leisure parks and large retail parks with all of the centres occupied by the company on a leasehold basis. The centres are designed to offer a complete family entertainment experience with each centre offering bowling lanes, on-site dining, licensed bars, and family games arcades. The company has two reporting segments, being the provision of ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres in the United Kingdom which generates the majority of the revenue, and the provision of ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres and the installation of bowling equipment in Canada.