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Webco Industries (Webco Industries) Graham Number : $528.39 (As of Jul. 2023)


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What is Webco Industries 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 (2024-04-29), the stock price of Webco Industries is $170.01. Webco Industries's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was $528.39. Therefore, Webco Industries's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.32.

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

WEBC' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.3   Med: 0.54   Max: 2.4
Current: 0.32

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Webco Industries was 2.40. The lowest was 0.30. And the median was 0.54.

WEBC's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
90% of 450 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 0.88 vs WEBC: 0.32

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


Webco Industries Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Webco Industries'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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Webco Industries Graham Number Chart

Webco Industries Annual Data
Trend Jul05 Jul06 Jul12 Jul13 Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 96.54 - 149.33 342.37 528.39

Webco Industries Semi-Annual Data
Jul95 Jul96 Jul97 Jul98 Jul99 Jul00 Jul01 Jul02 Jul03 Jul04 Jul05 Jul06 Jul12 Jul13 Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul23
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 96.54 - 149.33 342.37 528.39

Competitive Comparison of Webco Industries's Graham Number

For the Steel subindustry, Webco Industries'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.


Webco Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Webco Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Webco Industries Graham Number Calculation

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

Webco Industries's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*373.862*33.19)
=528.39

Webco Industries's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*373.862*33.19)
=528.39

* 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.


Webco Industries  (OTCPK:WEBC) 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.

Webco Industries's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jul. 2023 )
=170.01/528.39
=0.32

* 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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Webco Industries (Webco Industries) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
9101 West 21st Street S, P.O. Box 100, Sand Springs, OK, USA, 74063
Webco Industries Inc is a specialty manufacturer of high-quality carbon and stainless steel tubing products that are designed to industry and customer specifications. The company's products include Welded tubing; Cold drawn- Welded and Cold drawn- Seamless. Its value-added services include bending, custom mill length, end formed/swaged, finning, heat treating, packaging, precision cutting, product availability and responsiveness.
Executives
Dana Suzette Weber director, 10 percent owner, officer: Pres and COO
F William Weber director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chmn and CEO
Bradley Scott Vetal director 10701 E UTE STREET, TULSA OK 74116
Jack D Mccarthy director
David Edward Boyer officer: Sr VP - Tubing Oper and Secy
Michael Paul Howard officer: Sr VP - Fin and Adm / CFO
Kenneth Eugene Case director
Christopher Lee Kowalski director, officer: Pres of 100% owned sub

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