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Hooker Furnishings (Hooker Furnishings) Graham Number

: $18.70 (As of Jan. 2024)
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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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of Hooker Furnishings is $18.18. Hooker Furnishings's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $18.70. Therefore, Hooker Furnishings's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.97.

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

HOFT' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.83   Med: 1.07   Max: 1.4
Current: 0.97

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Hooker Furnishings was 1.40. The lowest was 0.83. And the median was 1.07.

HOFT's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
65.69% of 306 companies
in the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances industry
Industry Median: 1.26 vs HOFT: 0.97

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


Hooker Furnishings Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hooker Furnishings'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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Hooker Furnishings Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 23.44 28.06 20.82 - 18.70

Hooker Furnishings Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Graham Number 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - - - 18.70

Competitive Comparison

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances subindustry, Hooker Furnishings'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.


Hooker Furnishings Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Hooker Furnishings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hooker Furnishings Graham Number Calculation

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

Hooker Furnishings's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*17.084*0.91)
=18.70

Hooker Furnishings'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*17.084*0.91)
=18.70

* 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.


Hooker Furnishings  (NAS:HOFT) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=18.18/18.70
=0.97

* 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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Hooker Furnishings (Hooker Furnishings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
440 East Commonwealth Boulevard, Martinsville, VA, USA, 24112
Hooker Furnishings Corp formerly Hooker Furniture Corp is a designer, marketer, and importer of case goods, leather furniture, and fabric-upholstered furniture for the residential, hospitality, and contract markets. The company also domestically manufactures premium residential custom leather and custom fabric-upholstered furniture. Its segments are the Hooker Branded, which includes a wide range of design categories, home entertainment, home office, dining, and bedroom furniture; the Home Meridian segment includes Samuel Lawrence Furniture and Pulaski Furniture; and the Domestic Upholstery segment includes the domestic upholstery manufacturing operations of Sam Moore and Shenandoah Furniture and others. The company generates most of its revenue from the Home Meridian Segment.
Executives
Christopher L Henson director 214 N TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE NC 28202
Maria C Duey director 440 COMMONWEALTH BLVD E, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Anne Jacobsen officer: Senior Vice President HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BLVD., MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Paul A Huckfeldt officer: Chief Financial Officer HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BLVD, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Tonya Harris Jackson director HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARD, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Beeler W Christopher Jr director C/O HOOKER FURNITURE CORP, P O BOX 4708, MARTINSVILLE VA 24115
Tod R Phelps officer: Sr. VP - Operations PO BOX 4708, MARTINSVILLE VA 24115
Toms Paul B Jr director, officer: Chief Executive Officer HOOKER FURNITURE CORP, 440 E COMMONWEALTH BLVD, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Donald Lee Boone officer: Co-President HMI HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARD, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Douglas Townsend officer: Co-President HMI HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARDM, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Williamson Henry G Jr director HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, POB 4708, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
E Larry Ryder director C/O HOOKER FURNITURE CORP, P O BOX 4708, MARTINSVILLE VA 24115
Michael W Delgatti officer: President HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BLVD., MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Paulette Garafalo director HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARD, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112
Jeremy R Hoff officer: President HOOKER FURNITURE CORPORATION, 440 E. COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARD, MARTINSVILLE VA 24112

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