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LFG Investment Holdings (HKSE:03938) Graham Number : HK$0.16 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is LFG Investment Holdings 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 (2024-05-23), the stock price of LFG Investment Holdings is HK$0.189. LFG Investment Holdings's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was HK$0.16. Therefore, LFG Investment Holdings's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.17.

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

HKSE:03938' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.46   Med: 0.81   Max: 1.43
Current: 1.18

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of LFG Investment Holdings was 1.43. The lowest was 0.46. And the median was 0.81.

HKSE:03938's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
51.04% of 527 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 1.16 vs HKSE:03938: 1.18

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


LFG Investment Holdings Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for LFG Investment Holdings'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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LFG Investment Holdings Graham Number Chart

LFG Investment Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.77 0.61 0.62 - -

LFG Investment Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Mar17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.56 - - - 0.16

Competitive Comparison of LFG Investment Holdings's Graham Number

For the Capital Markets subindustry, LFG Investment Holdings'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.


LFG Investment Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, LFG Investment Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



LFG Investment Holdings Graham Number Calculation

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

LFG Investment Holdings's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.361*-0.056)
=N/A

LFG Investment Holdings's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.388*0.003)
=0.16

* 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.


LFG Investment Holdings  (HKSE:03938) 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.

LFG Investment Holdings's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=0.189/0.16
=1.17

* 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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LFG Investment Holdings (HKSE:03938) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
29 Queen’s Road Central, Room 1601, 16th Floor China Building, Hong Kong, HKG
LFG Investment Holdings Ltd is a financial services provider in Hong Kong, that engages in the provision of corporate finance advisory services; underwriting services; securities dealing and brokerage services; securities financing services; and asset management services. The company generates maximum revenue from Corporate finance advisory services.

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