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Beazer Homes USA (Beazer Homes USA) Graham Number

: $63.24 (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 Beazer Homes USA is $26.49. Beazer Homes USA's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $63.24. Therefore, Beazer Homes USA's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.42.

The historical rank and industry rank for Beazer Homes USA's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

BZH' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.11   Med: 0.46   Max: 5.76
Current: 0.42

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Beazer Homes USA was 5.76. The lowest was 0.11. And the median was 0.46.

BZH's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
89.87% of 79 companies
in the Homebuilding & Construction industry
Industry Median: 0.78 vs BZH: 0.42

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


Beazer Homes USA Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Beazer Homes USA'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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Beazer Homes USA 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 - 27.41 45.68 69.59 63.67

Beazer Homes USA 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 68.32 67.94 67.69 63.61 63.24

Competitive Comparison

For the Residential Construction subindustry, Beazer Homes USA'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.


Beazer Homes USA Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

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

* The bar in red indicates where Beazer Homes USA's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Beazer Homes USA Graham Number Calculation

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

Beazer Homes USA'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*34.813*5.175)
=63.67

Beazer Homes USA'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*35.19*5.051)
=63.24

* 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.


Beazer Homes USA  (NYSE:BZH) 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.

Beazer Homes USA's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=26.49/63.24
=0.42

* 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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Beazer Homes USA (Beazer Homes USA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2002 Summit Boulevard NE, 15th Floor, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30319
Beazer Homes USA Inc is an construction company that focuses on residential construction. The company specializes in single-family housing and multi-unit building construction in over 13 states and over 22 metro markets. Beazer Homes builds homes and communities that target first-time, move-up, and luxury homebuyers with an average selling price of roughly $300,000. From a geographic perspective, home sales in the western and eastern United States have been the leading sources of revenue for the company. Key metro areas include Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando, and Tampa. The company also focuses on land purchasing and development to support future construction efforts as well as mortgage services for its homebuyers.
Executives
Lloyd Emerson Johnson director 16737 NEW PROVIDENCE LANE, CHARLOTTE NC 28277
Robert L. Salomon officer: EVP, Chief Financial Officer 5535 LEXINGTON WOODS LANE, ALPHARETTA GA 30005
Pei Sun officer: VP & Chief Accounting Officer 1000 ABERNATHY ROAD, SUITE 260, ATLANTA GA 30328
C Christian Winkle director ONE RAVINIA DRIVE, STE 1500, ATLANTA GA 30346
David I Goldberg officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer 1000 ABERNATHY ROAD, NE, SUITE 260, ATLANTA GA 30328
Zelnak Stephen P Jr director MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC, 2710 WYCLIFF ROAD, RALEIGH NC 27607
David J Spitz director C/O CHANNELADVISOR CORPORATION, 2701 AERIAL CENTER PARKWAY, MORRISVILLE NC 27568
Allan P Merrill director, officer: President and CEO BEAZER HOMES, 1000 ABERNATHY RD, SUITE 1200, ATLANTA GA 30328
Danny R Shepherd director VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY, 1200 URBAN CENTER DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM AL 35242
Belknap Keith L Jr officer: EVP, General Counsel 3585 ENGINEERING DRIVE, SUITE 100, NORCROSS GA 30092
Larry T Solari director
Brian C Beazer director C/O NUMEREX, 1600 PARKWOOD CIRCLE #200, ATLANTA GA 30339-2119
Peter M Orser director 1000 ABERNATHY ROAD, SUITE 260, ATLANTA GA 30328
Elizabeth S Acton director 5408 WALDENHILL COURT, SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP MI 48198
Laurent Alpert director