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Highome Securities Fund (Highome Securities Fund) Graham Number : $7.51 (As of Aug. 2023)


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What is Highome Securities Fund 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 (2024-04-25), the stock price of Highome Securities Fund is $6.36. Highome Securities Fund's graham number for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was $7.51. Therefore, Highome Securities Fund's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.85.

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

PCF' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.46   Med: 0.92   Max: 2.37
Current: 0.85

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Highome Securities Fund was 2.37. The lowest was 0.46. And the median was 0.92.

PCF's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
54.54% of 1124 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.77 vs PCF: 0.85

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


Highome Securities Fund Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Highome Securities 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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Highome Securities Fund Graham Number Chart

Highome Securities Fund Annual Data
Trend Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 5.47 3.42 21.56 - 7.54

Highome Securities Fund Semi-Annual Data
Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 21.57 12.83 - - 7.51

Competitive Comparison of Highome Securities Fund's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Highome Securities 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.


Highome Securities Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Highome Securities Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Highome Securities Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

Highome Securities Fund's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*7.433*0.34)
=7.54

Highome Securities Fund's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*7.433*0.337)
=7.51

* 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.


Highome Securities Fund  (NYSE:PCF) 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.

Highome Securities Fund's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Aug. 2023 )
=6.36/7.51
=0.85

* 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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Highome Securities Fund (Highome Securities Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
615 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 53202
High Income Securities Fund is a closed-end management investment company. Its primary objective is to provide high current income and capital appreciation is the secondary objective. The Fund pursues its objective primarily by investing in both convertible bonds and convertible preferred stocks. The Fund also invests significantly in high-yielding non-convertible securities with the potential for capital appreciation.
Executives
Moritz A Sell director C/O USBANCORP FUND SERVICES, 777 E WISCONSIN AVE., MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Phillip Goldstein director 60 HERITAGE DRIVE, PLEASANTVILLE NY 10570
Gerald Hellerman director 5431 NW 21ST AVE., BOCA RATON FL 33496
Andrew Dakos director, officer: President 250 PEHLE AVE., SUITE 708, SADDLE BROOK NJ 07663
Ben H Harris director C/O US BANCORP FUND SERVICES, 777 EAST WISCONSIN AVE., MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Stephanie Darling officer: Chief Compliance Officer 250 PEHLE AVE., SUITE 708, SADDLE BROOK NJ 07663
Thomas Antonucci officer: Treasurer 250 PEHLE AVE. SUITE 708, SADDLE BROOK NJ 07663
Richard Dayan director C/O IMPERIAL HOLDINGS, INC., 701 PARK OF COMMERCE BLVD., SUITE 301, BOCA RATON FL 33487
Rajeev P Das director 250 PEHLE AVE., SUITE 708, SADDLE BROOK NJ 07663
Investors, Llp Bulldog 10 percent owner PARK 80 WEST - PLAZA TWO, 250 PEHLE AVE. SUITE 708, SADDLE BROOK NJ 07663
Edward Whalen officer: Chief Human Resources Officer, other: Putnam Investments PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, ONE POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON MA 02109
Michael Wands officer: Head of Global Inv Strategies, other: Putnam Investments PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, ONE POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON MA 02109
Anthony Daigle officer: Portfolio Manager, other: Putnam Investments PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, ONE POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON MA 02109
Andra S Bolotin officer: Chief Financial Officer, other: Putnam Investments PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, ONE POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON MA 02109
Manoj P Singh director PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, ONE POST OFFICE SQUARE, BOSTON MA 02109