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JPMorgan American Investment Trust (LSE:JAM) Graham Number : £18.26 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is JPMorgan American Investment Trust 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 (2024-05-24), the stock price of JPMorgan American Investment Trust is £9.76. JPMorgan American Investment Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £18.26. Therefore, JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.53.

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

LSE:JAM' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.42   Med: 0.48   Max: 3.05
Current: 0.53

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of JPMorgan American Investment Trust was 3.05. The lowest was 0.42. And the median was 0.48.

LSE:JAM's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
79.38% of 1135 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs LSE:JAM: 0.53

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


JPMorgan American Investment Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for JPMorgan American Investment Trust'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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JPMorgan American Investment Trust Graham Number Chart

JPMorgan American Investment Trust Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.14 12.19 17.02 - 18.26

JPMorgan American Investment Trust Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 17.02 2.34 - 13.28 18.26

Competitive Comparison of JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, JPMorgan American Investment Trust'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.


JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



JPMorgan American Investment Trust Graham Number Calculation

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

JPMorgan American Investment Trust'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*8.565*1.731)
=18.26

JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*8.565*1.73)
=18.26

* 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.


JPMorgan American Investment Trust  (LSE:JAM) 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.

JPMorgan American Investment Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=9.76/18.26
=0.53

* 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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JPMorgan American Investment Trust (LSE:JAM) Business Description

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Address
60 Victoria Embankment, London, GBR, EC4Y 0JP
JPMorgan American Investment Trust PLC is a UK-based investment trust company. Its investment objective is to provide shareholders with capital growth from North American investments. The company seeks to achieve determined objectives and to manage risk by investing in the diversified portfolio of quoted companies, including smaller capitalization stocks and pooled funds. It may use various appropriate investment policies such as short and long-term gearing, hedging the currency risk in respect of sterling debenture to increase potential returns to shareholders. The company reviews its performance against its benchmark S&P 500 Index, expressed in sterling total return terms.

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