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 Hudson City Bancorp is $10.12. Hudson City Bancorp's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $6.76. Therefore, Hudson City Bancorp's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.50.
The historical rank and industry rank for Hudson City Bancorp's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
HCBK's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 0.63 * 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.
Hudson City Bancorp Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for Hudson City Bancorp'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 Hudson City Bancorp's Graham Number
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Hudson City Bancorp'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.
Hudson City Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Hudson City Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Hudson City Bancorp's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
Hudson City Bancorp Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
Hudson City Bancorp'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.
Hudson City Bancorp (NAS:HCBK) 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.
Hudson City Bancorp's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Jun. 2015 )
=
10.12
/
6.76
=
1.50
* 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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Hudson City Bancorp (Hudson City Bancorp) Business Description
Hudson City Bancorp Inc is a Delaware corporation organized in 1999. It serves as the holding company of its only subsidiary, Hudson City Savings Bank. The asset of Hudson City Bancorp is its investment in Hudson City Savings Bank. The Company is a community and consumer-oriented retail savings bank offering traditional deposit products, residential real estate mortgage loans and consumer loans. The Company conducts its operations out of its corporate offices in Paramus in Bergen County, New Jersey and through 135 branches in the New York metropolitan area. It operates 97 branches located in 17 counties throughout the State of New Jersey. In New York State, it operates 10 branch offices in Westchester County, 12 branch offices in Suffolk County, 1 branch office each in Putnam and Rockland Counties and 5 branch offices in Richmond County "Staten Island". It also operates 9 branch offices in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Company's traditional consumer products are conforming one- to four-family residential mortgages, time deposits, checking and savings accounts appeal to a broad customer base. In addition, it purchases mortgages and mortgage-backed securities and other securities issued by U.S. government-sponsored enterprises as well as other investments permitted by applicable laws and regulations. The Company faces intense competition both in making loans and attracting deposits in the market areas it serve. It competes with loans comes from commercial banks, savings institutions, mortgage banking firms, credit unions, finance companies, insurance companies and brokerage firms. The Company's loans are subject to federal and state laws and regulations.
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