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Pennant Park Investment (Pennant Park Investment) Graham Number

: $11.29 (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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of Pennant Park Investment is $6.945. Pennant Park Investment's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $11.29. Therefore, Pennant Park Investment's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.62.

The historical rank and industry rank for Pennant Park Investment's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

PNNT' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.28   Med: 0.58   Max: 1.22
Current: 0.62

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Pennant Park Investment was 1.22. The lowest was 0.28. And the median was 0.58.

PNNT's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
68.29% of 1126 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs PNNT: 0.62

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


Pennant Park Investment Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pennant Park Investment'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.

* Premium members only.

Pennant Park Investment Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.85 - 23.49 - -

Pennant Park Investment 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 - - - - 11.29

Competitive Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, Pennant Park Investment'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.


Pennant Park Investment Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Pennant Park Investment's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Pennant Park Investment's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Pennant Park Investment Graham Number Calculation

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

Pennant Park Investment'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*7.699*-0.52)
=N/A

Pennant Park Investment'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*7.653*0.74)
=11.29

* 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.


Pennant Park Investment  (NYSE:PNNT) 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.

Pennant Park Investment's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=6.945/11.29
=0.62

* 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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Pennant Park Investment (Pennant Park Investment) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1691 Michigan Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, USA, 33139
Pennant Park Investment Corp is a closed-end, non-diversified investment company. Its investment objective is to generate current income and capital appreciation also seeking to preserve capital through debt and equity investments. The company focuses on investing in United States middle-market companies that offer attractive risk-reward to investors and to create a diversified portfolio that includes senior secured debt, mezzanine debt, and equity investments. It generates majority of its revenue from interest and dividends received from investments made.
Executives
Jose A Briones director 55 PLEASANTVILLE ROAD, NEW VERNON NJ 07976
Samuel L Katz director 9 WEST 57TH ST, NEW YORK NY 10019
Arthur H Penn officer: Chairman and CEO / Investment
Allorto Richard T Jr officer: CFO and Treasurer C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, 1350 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10019
Richard Cheung officer: See Remarks C/O CAREY CREDIT INCOME FUND, 330 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Aviv Efrat officer: CFO and Treasurer C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Adam K Bernstein director C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Jeffrey Flug director C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Pennantpark Investment Corp director, officer: Chairman and CEO/, other: Investment Adviser 590 MADISON AVENUE, 15TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Marshall Brozost director C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Williams P Whitridge Jr other: Investment Adviser C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT ADVISERS, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Salvatore Iii Giannetti other: Investment Adviser C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT ADVISERS, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Geoffrey S Chang other: Investment Adviser C/O PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT ADVISERS, 445 PARK AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022

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