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 Cytec Industries is $75.17. Cytec Industries's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $19.27. Therefore, Cytec Industries's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 3.90.
The historical rank and industry rank for Cytec Industries's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
CYT's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Chemicals industry.
Industry Median: 1.45 * 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.
Cytec Industries Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for Cytec 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.
Competitive Comparison of Cytec Industries's Graham Number
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Cytec 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.
Cytec Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Cytec Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Cytec Industries's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Cytec Industries Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Cytec Industries's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
* 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.
Cytec Industries (NYSE:CYT) 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.
Cytec Industries's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Sep. 2015 )
=
75.17
/
19.27
=
3.90
* 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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Cytec Industries (Cytec Industries) Business Description
Cytec Industries Inc was incorporated as an independent public company in Delaware in December 1993. It is a specialty materials and chemicals company. Its products serve a diverse range of end markets including aerospace and industrial materials, mining and plastics. Its segments include Aerospace Materials, Industrial Materials, In Process Separation, and Additive Technologies. Its Aerospace Materials segment is a provider of technologically advanced materials for aerospace markets. Its product lines are Advanced composites, Structural and film adhesives, and Carbon fibers. It markets Aerospace Materials products and services directly to its customers using sales and technical support team. It is a supplier for military fixed wing programs, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-18 fighter jet programs, where advanced composites generally account for a higher percentage of structural weight. Advanced composites are exceptionally strong and lightweight materials (prepregs and resin infusion systems) it manufactures from high performance fibers (like carbon fiber) with epoxy, bismaleimide, phenolic, polyimide and other resins formulated or purchased by the Company. Structural and film adhesives are used for bonding and surfacing both metal and composite aircraft components. It also manufactures specialty adhesive forms for complex composites assemblies, such as honeycomb and sandwich structures and special surfacing films to provide aircraft lightning strike protection. It began construction on a new standard modulus carbon fiber line in South Carolina in early 2008. Its Industrial Materials segment provides Structural materials and Process materials. In Industrial Materials, it markets its products through a direct sales force for the structural materials and process materials product lines. Structural materials product line includes the development, manufacturing and supply of advanced composite materials for a diverse range of industries such as motorsports, automotive, defense, rail, tooling, recreation, alternative energy and other markets. Process materials product line includes the development, manufacture, and supply of vacuum bagging and other process materials to the composites industry and other markets, providing a wide range of materials and technical support to a growing number of international customers. Its In Process Separation segment provides Mining chemicals, and Phosphines. It markets In Process Separation chemicals through specialized sales and technical service staffs for each of its product lines. Mining chemicals product line is primarily used in applications to separate desired minerals from host ores. Phosphine specialties are utilized for a variety of applications. Its Additive Technologies segment provides Polymer additives, Specialty additives, and Formulated resins. It markets Additive Technologies chemicals through specialized sales and technical service staffs for each of its product lines. I
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