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Pitney Bowes (Pitney Bowes) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Pitney Bowes 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 Pitney Bowes is $4.22. Pitney Bowes's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $N/A. Therefore, Pitney Bowes's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

PBI's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Transportation industry.
Industry Median: 0.99
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Graham-Number only.

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


Pitney Bowes Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pitney Bowes'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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Pitney Bowes Graham Number Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Pitney Bowes's Graham Number

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Pitney Bowes'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.


Pitney Bowes's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Pitney Bowes's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Pitney Bowes Graham Number Calculation

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

Pitney Bowes'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*-6.607*0.04)
=N/A

Pitney Bowes'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*-6.607*0.014)
=N/A

* 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.


Pitney Bowes  (NYSE:PBI) 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.

Pitney Bowes's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=4.22/N/A
=N/A

* 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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Pitney Bowes (Pitney Bowes) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3001 Summer Street, Stamford, CT, USA, 06926
Pitney Bowes is a Global technology company that offers e-commerce solutions to its clients. The company provides various products and services such as domestic delivery, return and fulfillment, cross-border shipping solutions, sorting services for large volumes of postal mails, technological solutions to enable digital mailing, shipping, and other services. The company operates through three business segments: Global e-commerce, presort services, and SendTech Solutions. The company generates majority of its revenue from United States.
Executives
Christopher Johnson officer: SVP & President, GFS 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Andrew Robert Gold officer: SVP, Chief HR Officer 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Joseph Schmitt officer: SVP, Chief Information Officer 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Deborah Pfeiffer officer: President, Presort Services 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Shemin Nurmohamed officer: President, SendTech Solutions 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Todd A. Everett director 2700 VIA FORTUNA, SUITE 300, AUSTIN TX 78746
Milena Alberti-perez director 8500 SW CREEKSIDE PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97008
Kurt James Wolf director 175 BRICKYARD ROAD, ADAMS TOWNSHIP PA 16046
Katie May director 1990 E. GRAND AVE., EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Steven Brill director 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
James Darrell Thomas director 3700 JUNEAU AVENUE, MILWAUKEE WI 53208
Sheila A Stamps director C/O CIT GROUP, 1 CIT DRIVE, ATTN: GENERAL COUNSEL, LIVINGSTON NJ 07039
Mary Guilfoile director 227 WASHINGTON STREET STE.200, CONSHOHOCKEN PA 19428
James Arthur Fairweather officer: EVP & Chief Innovation Officer 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Daniel J Goldstein officer: EVP/Chief Legal & Compliance 1 ELMCROFT ROAD, STAMFORD CT 06926