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Urban Outfitters (Urban Outfitters) Graham Number

: $40.68 (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 Urban Outfitters is $36.98. Urban Outfitters's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $40.68. Therefore, Urban Outfitters's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.91.

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

URBN' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.8   Med: 1.13   Max: 14.91
Current: 0.91

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Urban Outfitters was 14.91. The lowest was 0.80. And the median was 1.13.

URBN's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
67.62% of 701 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 1.29 vs URBN: 0.91

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


Urban Outfitters Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Urban Outfitters'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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Urban Outfitters 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 24.30 1.84 35.71 27.27 40.80

Urban Outfitters 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 27.35 29.52 33.84 37.81 40.68

Competitive Comparison

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Urban Outfitters'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.


Urban Outfitters Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Urban Outfitters's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Urban Outfitters Graham Number Calculation

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

Urban Outfitters'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*22.768*3.25)
=40.80

Urban Outfitters'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*22.768*3.23)
=40.68

* 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.


Urban Outfitters  (NAS:URBN) 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.

Urban Outfitters's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=36.98/40.68
=0.91

* 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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Urban Outfitters (Urban Outfitters) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5000 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19112-1495
Founded in 1970, Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters is an apparel and home goods retailer that operates about 700 stores and e-commerce in North America (87% of fiscal 2023 sales) and other regions. Its retail nameplates are Urban Outfitters, Free People, FP Movement, and Anthropologie. Retail accounted for 92% of fiscal 2023 revenue, but the firm also sells products through a wholesale operation, owns some restaurants, and operates a clothing rental and resale business called Nuuly. Urban Outfitters primarily markets to young adults and offers products in categories such as apparel (63% of fiscal 2023 sales), home goods (19% of sales), accessories (13% of sales), and more.
Executives
Tricia D Smith officer: Global CEO Anthropologie C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS INC, 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA X1 19112
Todd R Morgenfeld director C/O PINTEREST, INC., 651 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Melanie Marein-efron officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Azeez Hayne officer: General Counsel and Secretary C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19147
Frank Conforti officer: Controller 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Mary Egan director 520 ZANG STREET, SUITE D, BROOMFIELD CO 80021
Kotzman Kelly Campbell director C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Margaret Hayne officer: President, Free People C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Edward N Antoian director 415 LANTERN LANE, BERWYN PA 19312
Sheila B. Harrington officer: Global CEO, UO & FP Groups C/O 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Amin N. Maredia director 11811 N. TATUM BOULEVARD SUITE 2400, PHOENIX AZ 85028
John Champlin Mulliken director C/O 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Trish Donnelly officer: Urban Outfitters NA Brand Pres C/O PVH CORP., 200 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10016
Wesley S Mcdonald director
Lawson Joel S Iii director 1809 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELLPHIA PA 19103

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