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Whole Earth Brands (Whole Earth Brands) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Whole Earth Brands 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 (2024-06-06), the stock price of Whole Earth Brands is $4.82. Whole Earth Brands's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $N/A. Therefore, Whole Earth Brands's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

During the past 6 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Whole Earth Brands was 3.10. The lowest was 0.82. And the median was 1.62.

FREE's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
Industry Median: 1.23
* 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.


Whole Earth Brands Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Whole Earth Brands'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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Whole Earth Brands Graham Number Chart

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Whole Earth Brands Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Whole Earth Brands's Graham Number

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Whole Earth Brands'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.


Whole Earth Brands's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Whole Earth Brands's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Whole Earth Brands Graham Number Calculation

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

Whole Earth Brands'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*-4.01*-0.764)
=N/A

Whole Earth Brands's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*-4.072*-0.65)
=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.


Whole Earth Brands  (NAS:FREE) 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.

Whole Earth Brands's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=4.82/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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Whole Earth Brands (Whole Earth Brands) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
125 South Wacker Drive, Suite 3150, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Whole Earth Brands Inc is a food company enabling healthier lifestyles and providing access to high-quality, plant-based sweeteners, flavor enhancers and other foods through diverse portfolio of trusted brands and delicious products. The company operates in two segments namely, Branded CPG and Flavors & Ingredients. Its portfolio consists of three main product groups: sweeteners, adjacencies and ingredients.
Executives
Rajnish Ohri officer: Interim Co-CEO 125 S. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 1250, CHICAGO IL 60606
Sababa Holdings Free Llc 10 percent owner C/O MARIPOSA CAPITAL, 500 SOUTH POINTE DRIVE STE 240, MIAMI BEACH FL 33139
Michael F Goss director BAIN CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC, JOHN HANCOCK TOWER, 200 CLARENDON STREET, BOSTON MA 02116
Bernardo Fiaux officer: Chief Financial Officer 125 S. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 1250, CHICAGO IL 60606
Michael E. Franklin director 125 S. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 1250, CHICAGO IL 60606
Trisha L Fox officer: Chief Human Resources Officer 125 S. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 3150, CHICAGO IL 60606
Martin E Franklin 10 percent owner C/O MARIPOSA CAPITAL, LLC, 5200 BLUE LAGOON DRIVE, SUITE 855, MIAMI FL 33126
Duane A Portwood officer: Chief Financial Officer 836 BARN OWL ROAD, MARIETTA GA 30068
Jeffrey S. Robinson officer: President, Mafco Worldwide LLC 125 S. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 3150, CHICAGO IL 60606
Brian Litman officer: Chief Accounting Officer 125 S. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 3150, CHICAGO IL 60606
John M. Mcmillin director 1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 11TH FLOOR, NEW NY 10105
Irwin D Simon director C/O THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC., 1111 MARCUS AVENUE, LAKE SUCCESS NY 11042
Ira J Lamel director C/O THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC., 1111 MARCUS AVENUE, LAKE SUCCESS NY 11042
Anuraag Agarwal director 1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 11TH FL, NEW YORK NY 10105
Denise M Faltischek director C/O THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC., 1111 MARCUS AVENUE, LAKE SUCCESS NY 11042