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Resolute Forest Products (Resolute Forest Products) Graham Number : $56.09 (As of Sep. 2022)


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What is Resolute Forest Products 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 (2024-05-07), the stock price of Resolute Forest Products is $21.92. Resolute Forest Products's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $56.09. Therefore, Resolute Forest Products's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.39.

The historical rank and industry rank for Resolute Forest Products's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

RFP' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.22   Med: 0.31   Max: 1.12
Current: 0.22

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Resolute Forest Products was 1.12. The lowest was 0.22. And the median was 0.31.

RFP's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked
in the Forest Products industry.
Industry Median: 0.865 vs RFP: 0.22

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


Resolute Forest Products Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Resolute Forest Products'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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Resolute Forest Products Graham Number Chart

Resolute Forest Products Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 30.44 - 5.74 40.00

Resolute Forest Products Quarterly Data
Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22
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 43.45 39.58 50.00 54.10 56.09

Competitive Comparison of Resolute Forest Products's Graham Number

For the Paper & Paper Products subindustry, Resolute Forest Products'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.


Resolute Forest Products's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Resolute Forest Products's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Resolute Forest Products's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Resolute Forest Products Graham Number Calculation

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

Resolute Forest Products's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*18.568*3.83)
=40.00

Resolute Forest Products's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*25.703*5.44)
=56.09

* 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.


Resolute Forest Products  (NYSE:RFP) 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.

Resolute Forest Products's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2022 )
=21.92/56.09
=0.39

* 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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Resolute Forest Products (Resolute Forest Products) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1010 De La Gauchetiere Street West, Suite 400, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3B 2N2
Resolute Forest Products Inc is engaged in the forest products industry with a range of products, including market pulp, tissue, wood products, newsprint, and specialty papers. The product range includes market pulp, tissue, wood products, newsprint and specialty papers which are marketed to nearly 50 countries. The company owns or operates pulp, paper, tissue and wood products facilities in the United States and Canada.
Executives
Patrice Minguez officer: President, Tissue Group C/O RESOLUTE FOREST PRODUCTS INC., 111 DUKE STREET, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Hugues Simon officer: President, Wood products 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Sylvain A. Girard officer: Chief Financial Officer 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Duncan Davies director 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Stephanie Leclaire officer: Chief Legal Officer 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Daniel Viboux officer: Chief Accounting Officer 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Suzanne Blanchet director 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA BOULEVARD, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Michael S Rousseau director C/O ABITIBIBOWATER INC., 1155 METCALFE STREET, SUITE 800, MONTREAL, QUEBEC Z4 H3B 5H2
Alain Rheaume director C/O ABITIBIBOWATER INC., 1155 METCALFE STREET, SUITE 800, MONTREAL, QUEBEC Z4 H3B 5H2
Lori Kilgour officer: SVP, Chief Information Officer 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C2M1
Daniel Ouellet officer: SVP Human Resources 111 ROBERT-BOURASSA BOULEVARD, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Richard Joseph Tremblay officer: SVP, Pulp and Paper Operations C/O RESOLUTE FOREST PRODUCTS INC., 111 DUKE STREET, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
John Lafave officer: Senior Vice President C/O ABITIBIBOWATER INC., 1155 METCALFE STREET, SUITE 800, MONTREAL A8 H3B 5H2
Randall C Benson director RESOLUTE FOREST PRODUCTS INC., 111 DUKE STREET, SUITE 5000, MONTREAL A8 H3C 2M1
Bradley Martin director C/O ODYSSEY RE HOLDINGS CORP., 300 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE, STAMFORD CT 06902