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Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund (Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund) Graham Number

: $8.12 (As of Oct. 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 Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund is $11.7588. Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's graham number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was $8.12. Therefore, Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.45.

The historical rank and industry rank for Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

NZF' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49   Med: 0.76   Max: 2.6
Current: 1.45

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund was 2.60. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 0.76.

NZF's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
79.93% of 1126 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs NZF: 1.45

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


Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund'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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Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund Annual Data
Trend Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 29.66 5.68 26.30 - 8.20

Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund Semi-Annual Data
Apr14 Oct14 Apr15 Oct15 Apr16 Oct16 Apr17 Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Apr20 Oct20 Apr21 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23
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 26.30 - - - 8.12

Competitive Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund'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.


Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*11.959*0.25)
=8.20

Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*11.959*0.245)
=8.12

* 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.


Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund  (NYSE:NZF) 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.

Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Oct. 2023 )
=11.7588/8.12
=1.45

* 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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Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund (Nuveen Municipal Creditome Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Nuveen Municipal Credit Income Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax and to enhance portfolio value relative to the municipal bond market by investing in an actively managed portfolio of tax-exempt municipal securities.
Executives
Terence J Toth other: Trustee
Young L Robert other: Trustee 1111 POLARIS PARKWAY, COLUMBUS OH 43240
Kristen Dejong other: Portfolio Manager 333 WEST WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
David J Lamb officer: Vice President 333 W WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN INVESTMENTS, CHICAGO IL 60606
Trey Iii Stenersen officer: Vice President 333 WEST WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Brett Black officer: Chief Compliance Officer 333 WEST WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
John M. Mccann officer: Vice President 333 WEST WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Gifford R Zimmerman officer: Secretary 333 W WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN INVESTMENTS, CHICAGO IL 60606
Joanne Medero other: Trustee 333 W. WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN, STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Lancellotta Amy B.r. other: Trustee 333 W. WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN, STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Matthew Iii Thornton other: Trustee 3610 HACKS CROSS ROAD, MEMPHIS TN 38125
Deann Morgan officer: Vice President TWO WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, 7TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10281
Jon Scott Meissner officer: Vice President 333 W WACKER DRIVE, STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Jacques M Longerstaey officer: Vice President 333 WEST WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Brian J Lockhart officer: Vice President 333 WEST WACKER DRIVE, C/O NUVEEN STE 3400, CHICAGO IL 60606