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Cantaloupe (Cantaloupe) Graham Number : $1.77 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cantaloupe 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 (2024-05-05), the stock price of Cantaloupe is $5.93. Cantaloupe's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.77. Therefore, Cantaloupe's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 3.36.

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

CTLP' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.37   Med: 3.91   Max: 15.92
Current: 3.35

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Cantaloupe was 15.92. The lowest was 0.37. And the median was 3.91.

CTLP's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
66.54% of 1351 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.26 vs CTLP: 3.35

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


Cantaloupe Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cantaloupe'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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Cantaloupe Graham Number Chart

Cantaloupe Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Graham Number
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Cantaloupe Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 - - 0.50 1.60 1.77

Competitive Comparison of Cantaloupe's Graham Number

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Cantaloupe'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.


Cantaloupe's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Cantaloupe's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cantaloupe Graham Number Calculation

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

Cantaloupe's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.62*0.03)
=0.65

Cantaloupe'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*0.753*0.184)
=1.77

* 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.


Cantaloupe  (NAS:CTLP) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=5.93/1.77
=3.36

* 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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Cantaloupe (Cantaloupe) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
100 Deerfield Lane, Suite 300, Malvern, PA, USA, 19355
Cantaloupe Inc operates in the small ticket electronic payments industry. It provides wireless, cashless, micro-transactions, and networking services within the unattended Point of Sale (POS) market. Its products and services portfolio consists of ePort Cashless devices, eSuds, EnergyMisers, and Value-added services which include Loyalty and Prepaid, Intelligent Vending, and others. The company offers services to different industries covering car wash, taxi and transportation, laundry, vending, kiosk, amusement, and arcade. The Company derives revenue from the sale or lease of equipment and services to the small ticket, unattended POS market and majority of its revenue is derived from subscription and transaction fees.
Executives
Ian Jiro Harris director C/O CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT, LLP, 200 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10281
Ravi Venkatesan officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O CANTALOUPE, INC., 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Gaurav Singal officer: Chief Technology Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Jared Scott Grachek officer: Chief Accounting Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Jeffrey Charles Dumbrell officer: Chief Revenue Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Anna Rose Novoseletsky officer: Chief Legal Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Scott Matthew Stewart officer: Chief Accounting Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Ankit Varia officer: Chief Accounting Officer CANTALOUPE, INC., 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Hudson Executive Capital Lp 10 percent owner C/O CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT, LLP, 200 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10281
Lisa P. Baird director 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Sean E Feeney officer: Chief Executive Officer PORTER WRIGHT MORRIS & ARTHUR LL, 41 S HIGH STREET, COLUMBUS OH 43215
James M Pollock officer: Chief Compliance Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Roger Wayne Jackson officer: Chief Financial Officer 1 CONCOURSE PARKWAY, SUITE 500, ATLANTA GA 30328
Eugene Cavanaugh officer: Interim CFO 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355
Jeff Vogt officer: Chief Operating Officer 100 DEERFIELD LANE, SUITE 300, MALVERN PA 19355