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Lument Finance Trust (Lument Finance Trust) Graham Number : $4.86 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Lument Finance Trust Graham Number?

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 (2024-04-26), the stock price of Lument Finance Trust is $2.30. Lument Finance Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.86. Therefore, Lument Finance Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.47.

The historical rank and industry rank for Lument Finance Trust's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LFT' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.47   Med: 0.64   Max: 3.79
Current: 0.47

During the past 12 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Lument Finance Trust was 3.79. The lowest was 0.47. And the median was 0.64.

LFT's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
80.89% of 586 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 0.78 vs LFT: 0.47

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


Lument Finance Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lument Finance Trust'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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Lument Finance Trust Graham Number Chart

Lument Finance Trust Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.18 5.63 5.94 2.96 4.78

Lument Finance Trust Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 3.09 3.55 3.42 4.34 4.86

Competitive Comparison of Lument Finance Trust's Graham Number

For the REIT - Mortgage subindustry, Lument Finance Trust'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.


Lument Finance Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the REITs Industry

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Lument Finance Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lument Finance Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Lument Finance Trust Graham Number Calculation

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

Lument Finance Trust'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*3.498*0.29)
=4.78

Lument Finance Trust'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*3.498*0.3)
=4.86

* 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.


Lument Finance Trust  (NYSE:LFT) 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.

Lument Finance Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=2.30/4.86
=0.47

* 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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Lument Finance Trust (Lument Finance Trust) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
230 Park Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10169
Lument Finance Trust Inc operates as a real estate investment trust. The company is engaged in investment, financing, and management of a portfolio of commercial real estate debt investments. It invests in transitional floating-rate commercial mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, commercial mortgage-backed securities, fixed-rate loans, construction loans, and other CRE debt instruments.
Executives
William A Houlihan director 10900 WAYZATA BOULEVARD, MINNETONKA MN 55305
James J Henson officer: PRESIDENT LUMENT FINANCE TRUST, INC., 10 W BROAD ST., 8TH FLOOR, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Walter C Keenan director C/O FIVE OAKS INVESTMENT CORP., 540 MADISON AVE, 19TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
James Christopher Hunt director 4401 NORTH MESA, EL PASO TX 79902
James A Briggs officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O HUNT COMPANIES FINANCE TRUST INC., 230 PARK AVENUE, 19TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10169
James Peter Flynn officer: Chief Executive Officer 230 PARK AVENUE, 19TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10169
Hunt Companies, Inc. 10 percent owner 4401 NORTH MESA, EL PASO TX 79902
Orix Corp 10 percent owner WORLD TRADE CENTER BLDG., SOUTH TOWER, 2-4-1 HAMAMATSU-CHO, MINATO-KU, TOKYO M0 105 5135
Orec Investment Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner 2001 ROSS AVENUE, SUITE 1900, DALLAS TX 75201
Hunt Capital Holdings Investments, Llc 10 percent owner 4401 NORTH MESA STREET, EL PASO TX 79902
Hunt Companies Equity Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner 230 PARK AVENUE, 19TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10169
Hunt Company, Llc 10 percent owner 9120 DOUBLE DIAMOND PARKWAY, RENO NV 89521
Hb Gp, Llc 10 percent owner 4401 NORTH MESA, EL PASO TX 79902
Hunt Elp, Ltd. 10 percent owner 4401 NORTH MESA, EL PASO TX 79902
Woody L Hunt 10 percent owner 4401 NORTH MESA, EL PASO TX 79902