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Customers Bancorp (Customers Bancorp) Graham Number

: $89.22 (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 (2024-04-16), the stock price of Customers Bancorp is $46.62. Customers Bancorp's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $89.22. Therefore, Customers Bancorp's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.52.

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

CUBI' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.36   Med: 0.69   Max: 1.09
Current: 0.52

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Customers Bancorp was 1.09. The lowest was 0.36. And the median was 0.69.

CUBI's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
62.1% of 1380 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.62 vs CUBI: 0.52

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


Customers Bancorp Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Customers Bancorp'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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Customers Bancorp Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 35.33 51.06 92.17 74.53 90.94

Customers Bancorp 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 77.78 76.02 75.21 82.81 89.22

Competitive Comparison

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Customers Bancorp'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.


Customers Bancorp Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Customers Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Customers Bancorp Graham Number Calculation

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

Customers Bancorp'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*47.612*7.72)
=90.94

Customers Bancorp'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*47.612*7.43)
=89.22

* 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.


Customers Bancorp  (NYSE:CUBI) 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.

Customers Bancorp's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=46.62/89.22
=0.52

* 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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Customers Bancorp (Customers Bancorp) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
701 Reading Avenue, West Reading, PA, USA, 19611
Customers Bancorp Inc is a bank holding company engaged in banking activities. It provides financial products and services to small and middle-market businesses, not-for-profits, and consumers. The company operates in Lending Activities, Commercial Lending, Consumer Lending, Private Banking, Deposit Products, Other Funding Sources, and Financial Products and Services. The majority of revenue is derived from commercial lending.
Executives
Robert Neil Mackay director 701 READING AVENUE, WEST READING PA 19611
Glenn Hedde officer: Pres Mortgage WarehouseLending 1015 PENN AVENUE, SUITE 103, WYOMISSING PA 19610
Jay S Sidhu director, officer: Chairman & CEO 4655 SALISBURY ROAD, SUITE 110, JACKSONVILLE FL 32256
Velasquez Jessie John Deano officer: Chief Accounting Officer 1015 PENN AVENUE, WYOMISSING PA 19610
Philip Watkins officer: CFO Customers Bank 1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 11TH FL, NEW YORK NY 10105
Carla A Leibold officer: Principal Accounting Officer C/O 1999 K STREET, N.W., 4TH FLOOR, WASHINGTON DC 20006
Andrew Hertz Bowman officer: EVP and Chief Credit Officer 701 READING AVENUE, WEST READING PA 19611
Samvir S. Sidhu officer: Head of Corporate Development 1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 11TH FL, NEW YORK NY 10105
Rajeev V Date director 3465 EAST FOOTHILL BOULEVARD, PASADENA CA 91107
Lyle Cunningham officer: Director/Chief Lending Officer 701 READING AVENUE, WEST READING PA 19611
Bernard Bennett Banks director 701 READING AVENUE, WEST READING PA 19611
Steven Issa officer: Exec VP/Chief Lending Officer 16 LILAC STREET, CUMBERLAND RI 02864
T Lawrence Way director 1015 PENN AVENUE, SUITE 103, WYOMISSING PA 19610
Richard A Ehst officer: President & COO 1015 PENN AVENUE, SUITE 103, WYOMISSING PA 19610
James T. Collins officer: Chief Administrative Officer 4520 LONGFELLOW COURT, DOYLESTOWN PA 18902