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Legacy Housing (Legacy Housing) Graham Number

: $29.56 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 (2024-04-18), the stock price of Legacy Housing is $19.78. Legacy Housing's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $29.56. Therefore, Legacy Housing's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.67.

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

LEGH' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.61   Med: 0.86   Max: 1.09
Current: 0.67

During the past 8 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Legacy Housing was 1.09. The lowest was 0.61. And the median was 0.86.

LEGH's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
64.56% of 79 companies
in the Homebuilding & Construction industry
Industry Median: 0.78 vs LEGH: 0.67

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


Legacy Housing Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Legacy Housing'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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Legacy Housing Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 15.58 19.45 24.28 31.09 29.56

Legacy Housing Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 31.03 31.66 31.72 32.69 29.56

Competitive Comparison

For the Residential Construction subindustry, Legacy Housing'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.


Legacy Housing Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Homebuilding & Construction industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Legacy Housing's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Legacy Housing Graham Number Calculation

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

Legacy Housing's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*17.9*2.17)
=29.56

Legacy Housing's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*17.9*2.17)
=29.56

* 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.


Legacy Housing  (NAS:LEGH) 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.

Legacy Housing's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=19.78/29.56
=0.67

* 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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Legacy Housing (Legacy Housing) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1600 Airport Freeway, Suite No. 100, Bedford, TX, USA, 76022
Legacy Housing Corp builds, sell, and finance manufactured homes and tiny houses that are distributed through a network of independent retailers and company-owned stores and also sold directly to manufactured home communities. The company also provides financing options to customers to facilitate the sale of homes.
Executives
Curtis Drew Hodgson director, 10 percent owner, officer: Co-Chief Executive Officer 15400 KNOLL TRAIL STE 101 LB 25, DALLAS TX 75248
Kenneth E Shipley director, 10 percent owner, officer: Co-Chief Executive Officer PO BOX 749, LEVELLAND TX 79336
William G Shipley 10 percent owner C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Robert Duncan Bates director C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Douglas M Shipley 10 percent owner PO BOX 749, LEVELLAND TX 79336
Jeffrey Mark Fiedelman officer: CFO 7026 BAXTERSHIRE DRIVE, DALLAS TX 75230
Jeffrey V Burt officer: CFO and Treasurer C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Francisco Javier Coll director C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Ronald Carter Arrington officer: CFO C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Joseph Phillip Lane director C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Jeffrey Kyle Stouder director C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Stephen Lynn Crawford director C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Neal J Suit officer: Exec VP, GC and Secretary C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Mark E Bennett director C/O LEGACY HOUSING CORPORATION, 1600 AIRPORT FREEWAY, #100, BEDFORD TX 76022
Philip Thomas Blazek director 500 CRESCENT COURT, SUITE 230, DALLAS TX 75201