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FRP Advisory Group (LSE:FRP) Graham Number : £0.65 (As of Oct. 2023)


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What is FRP Advisory Group 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 (2024-05-11), the stock price of FRP Advisory Group is £1.255. FRP Advisory Group's graham number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was £0.65. Therefore, FRP Advisory Group's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.94.

The historical rank and industry rank for FRP Advisory Group's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:FRP' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.75   Med: 2.9   Max: 3.41
Current: 1.93

During the past 7 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of FRP Advisory Group was 3.41. The lowest was 1.75. And the median was 2.90.

LSE:FRP's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
70.94% of 523 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 1.18 vs LSE:FRP: 1.93

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


FRP Advisory Group Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for FRP Advisory Group'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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FRP Advisory Group Graham Number Chart

FRP Advisory Group Annual Data
Trend Apr17 Apr18 Apr19 Apr20 Apr21 Apr22 Apr23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 0.17 0.40 0.49 0.61

FRP Advisory Group Semi-Annual Data
Apr17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Apr20 Oct20 Apr21 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.39 0.49 0.57 0.61 0.65

Competitive Comparison of FRP Advisory Group's Graham Number

For the Capital Markets subindustry, FRP Advisory Group'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.


FRP Advisory Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where FRP Advisory Group's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



FRP Advisory Group Graham Number Calculation

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

FRP Advisory Group's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.207*0.081)
=0.61

FRP Advisory Group's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.209*0.089)
=0.65

* 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.


FRP Advisory Group  (LSE:FRP) 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.

FRP Advisory Group's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Oct. 2023 )
=1.255/0.65
=1.94

* 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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FRP Advisory Group (LSE:FRP) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
110 Cannon Street, London, GBR, EC4N 6EU
FRP Advisory Group PLC is a professional services firm offering advisory services to companies, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders, as well as individuals. The company's services include Restructuring advisory; Corporate finance; Debt advisory; Forensic services; and Pension advisory. The group's revenue is derived from the provision of specialist business and advisory services. It advises across multiple sectors and all business sizes, principally servicing smaller and mid-market companies.

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