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 HF Financial is $19.64. HF Financial's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was $20.14. Therefore, HF Financial's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.98.
The historical rank and industry rank for HF Financial's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:
HFFC'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.
HF Financial Graham Number Historical Data
The historical data trend for HF Financial'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 HF Financial's Graham Number
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, HF Financial'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.
HF Financial's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, HF Financial's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where HF Financial's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.
HF Financial Graham Number Calculation
Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.
HF Financial's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2015 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.
HF Financial (NAS:HFFC) 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.
HF Financial's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Graham number
=
Share Price (Today)
/
Graham number (Q: Mar. 2016 )
=
19.64
/
20.14
=
0.98
* 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.
HF Financial Graham Number Related Terms
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HF Financial Corp was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware in November 1991. The Company was formed for owning all of the outstanding stock of Home Federal Bank issued in the mutual to stock conversion of the Bank. The Company is regulated as a bank holding company by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Bank provides full-service consumer and commercial business banking, including an array of financial products, to meet the needs of its market place. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses such deposits, together with borrowings and other funds, to originate one-to-four family residential, commercial business, consumer, multi-family, commercial real estate, construction and agricultural loans. The Bank's consumer loan portfolio includes, among other things, automobile loans, home equity loans, loans secured by deposit accounts and student loans. The Bank also purchases agency residential mortgage-backed securities and invests in U.S. Government and agency obligations and other permissible investments. The Bank, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, offers annuities, mutual funds, life insurance and other financial products, and equipment leasing services. The Company's reportable segments are banking (including leasing activities) and other. The banking segment is conducted through the Bank and Mid America Capital and the other segment is composed of smaller non-reportable segments, the Company and intersegment eliminations. The Bank's primary market area includes communities located in eastern and central South Dakota, including the Sioux Falls metropolitan statistical area ("MSA"), and the cities of Mitchell, Aberdeen, Brookings, Watertown, and Yankton. The Bank has a banking center in Marshall, Minnesota, which serves customers located in southwestern Minnesota. It competes with other commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, mortgage banking firms, consumer finance companies, securities brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market funds and other mutual funds, as well as super-regional, national and international financial institutions.
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