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Flour Mills Nigeria (NSA:FMNL) Graham Number : ₦63.98 (As of Mar. 2023)


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What is Flour Mills Nigeria 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 Flour Mills Nigeria is ₦37.10. Flour Mills Nigeria's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was ₦63.98. Therefore, Flour Mills Nigeria's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.58.

The historical rank and industry rank for Flour Mills Nigeria's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

NSA:FMNL' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.33   Med: 0.52   Max: 1.75
Current: 0.58

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Flour Mills Nigeria was 1.75. The lowest was 0.33. And the median was 0.52.

NSA:FMNL's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
84.12% of 1266 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 1.285 vs NSA:FMNL: 0.58

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


Flour Mills Nigeria Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Flour Mills Nigeria'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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Flour Mills Nigeria Graham Number Chart

Flour Mills Nigeria Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 26.00 40.87 79.73 78.18 63.98

Flour Mills Nigeria Semi-Annual Data
Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 26.00 40.87 79.73 78.18 63.98

Competitive Comparison of Flour Mills Nigeria's Graham Number

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Flour Mills Nigeria'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.


Flour Mills Nigeria's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Flour Mills Nigeria's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Flour Mills Nigeria's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Flour Mills Nigeria Graham Number Calculation

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

Flour Mills Nigeria'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*46.862*3.882)
=63.98

Flour Mills Nigeria's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*46.862*3.882)
=63.98

* 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.


Flour Mills Nigeria  (NSA:FMNL) 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.

Flour Mills Nigeria's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2023 )
=37.10/63.98
=0.58

* 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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Flour Mills Nigeria (NSA:FMNL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Wharf Road, 1, Golden Penny Place, Apapa, Lagos, NGA
Flour Mills Nigeria PLC is an investment holding company. The company's operating segment includes Food; Agro Allied; Sugar and Support Services. It generates maximum revenue from the Food segment which includes milling and sales of flour and production and sales of pasta, snacks, and noodles. Its Agro-Allied segment includes farming of maize, cassava, soya, sugar cane and oil palm and production and sales of fertilizer, edible oils and livestock feeds. The Sugar segment includes the cultivation and processing of sugarcane, refining and selling of sugar and sale of by-products from sugar refining.

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