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Starwood Property Trust (Starwood Property Trust) Graham Number

: $21.40 (As of Dec. 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 (2024-04-18), the stock price of Starwood Property Trust is $19.01. Starwood Property Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $21.40. Therefore, Starwood Property Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.89.

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

STWD' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.58   Med: 0.75   Max: 0.99
Current: 0.89

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Starwood Property Trust was 0.99. The lowest was 0.58. And the median was 0.75.

STWD's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
56.14% of 586 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 0.79 vs STWD: 0.89

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


Starwood Property Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Starwood Property 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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Starwood Property Trust Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 25.00 25.51 33.41 31.83 29.53

Starwood Property 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 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 34.96 28.72 27.78 23.67 21.40

Competitive Comparison

For the REIT - Mortgage subindustry, Starwood Property 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.


Starwood Property Trust Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

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

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



Starwood Property Trust Graham Number Calculation

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

Starwood Property 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*18.912*2.05)
=29.53

Starwood Property 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*18.912*1.076)
=21.40

* 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.


Starwood Property Trust  (NYSE:STWD) 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.

Starwood Property Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=19.01/21.40
=0.89

* 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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Starwood Property Trust (Starwood Property Trust) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
591 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT, USA, 06830
Starwood Property Trust Inc is an American real estate investment trust principally engaged in originating, acquiring, and managing commercial mortgage loans and commercial mortgage-backed securities in the U.S. and Europe. The company organizes its activities into Commercial and Residential Lending Segment, Infrastructure Lending Segment, Property Segment and Investing and Servicing Segment. The former acquires and finances first mortgages or mortgages with primary lien positions. The collateral for these mortgages is mainly office and hospitality properties in the American West and Northeast. Starwood's Investing and Servicing unit primarily generates revenue from the acquisition and sale of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
Executives
Jeffrey F. Dimodica director C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Deborah L Harmon director 5404 WISCONSIN AVENUE, SUITE 410, CHEVY CHASE MD 20815
Heather N. Bennett officer: General Counsel and CCO C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Andrew Jay Sossen officer: General Counsel 555 CALIFORNIA STREET 50TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Barry S Sternlicht director, officer: CEO, Chairman of Board of Dir. STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP GLOBAL LP, 1601 WASHINGTON AVENUE, SUITE 800, MIAMI BEACH FL 33139
Frederick Perpall director 12700 PARK CENTRAL DRIVE, SUITE 1700, DALLAS TX 75251
Jeffrey G. Dishner director C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Rina Paniry officer: Chief Financial Officer STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Fred S. Ridley director 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Camille J. Douglas director C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Solomon J. Kumin director STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Strauss Zelnick director C/O ZELNICKMEDIA, 650 FIFTH AVE 31ST FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Boyd Fellows director, officer: President C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Richard D. Bronson director C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Perry Stewart Ward officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830