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.
The historical rank and industry rank for Monarch Financial Holdings's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
MNRK's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 0.63 * 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.
Monarch Financial Holdings Graham Number Historical Data
* 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 Monarch Financial Holdings's Graham Number
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Monarch Financial Holdings'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.
Monarch Financial Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Monarch Financial Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Monarch Financial Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Monarch Financial Holdings Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
* 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.
Monarch Financial Holdings (NAS:MNRK) 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.
Monarch Financial Holdings's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Mar. 2016 )
=
18.49
/
16.94
=
1.09
* 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.
Monarch Financial Holdings Graham Number Related Terms
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Monarch Financial Holdings (Monarch Financial Holdings) Business Description
Monarch Financial Holdings Inc was created on June 1, 2006 through a reorganization plan, under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in which Monarch Bank became its wholly-owned subsidiary. Monarch Bank was incorporated on May 1, 1998 and opened for business on April 14, 1999 as a Virginia-chartered bank and a member of the Federal Reserve banking system. The Company is engaged in business and consumer banking, investment and insurance sales, and mortgage origination and brokerage. It conducts its operations through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Monarch Bank, and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Monarch Investment, LLC and Monarch Capital, LLC. It also does business in some markets as OBX Bank, Monarch Bank Private Wealth, Monarch Mortgage and under various names via joint ventures with other partners. The Company operates through two segments that offer different products and services; community banking ("banking") and retail mortgage banking services ("mortgage banking"). Banking involves making loans to and generating deposits from individuals and businesses. Mortgage banking originates residential mortgage loans and subsequently sells them to investors. It serves the needs of local businesses, professionals, corporate executives and individuals in the Hampton Roads South Hampton Roads area of Southeastern Virginia and the Outer Banks region of Northeastern North Carolina. It operate ten banking offices, four commercial lending office and eleven residential mortgage offices in the cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, Virginia. It has two full-service banking offices operating under the name 'OBX Bank' and a residential mortgage office operating under the name of 'OBX Bank Mortgage' in the Outer Banks region of Northeastern North Carolina in the towns of Kitty Hawk and Nags Head. It also operates twenty-nine additional residential mortgage offices outside of its main market areas. The Company's business banking group supports its business and commercial clients and offers both secured and unsecured commercial loans for working capital (including inventory and receivables), business expansion (including acquisition of real estate and improvements) and the purchase of equipment and machinery, as well as loans secured by commercial real estate. This Company also originates business deposits and related services. The Company's Real Estate Finance Group supports the delivery of residential and commercial real estate construction, acquisition and development loans, with the majority of its focus in the 1-4 family residential development markets of Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina. This group supports this type of banking in all of its markets. The Commercial Real Estate Finance Group specializing in underwriting commercial real estate loans, which are either financed for its balance sheet or brokered to other investors. Non-owner occupied income producing real est
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