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Winmill (Winmill) Graham Number : $16.37 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Winmill 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 (2024-05-10), the stock price of Winmill is $3.95. Winmill's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $16.37. Therefore, Winmill's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Winmill was 0.24. The lowest was 0.23. And the median was 0.23.

WNMLA's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 0.77
* 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.


Winmill Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Winmill'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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Winmill Graham Number Chart

Winmill Annual Data
Trend Dec97 Dec98 Dec99 Dec00 Dec01 Dec02 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.81 7.01 2.15 14.32 7.07

Winmill Quarterly Data
Sep00 Dec00 Mar01 Jun01 Sep01 Dec01 Mar02 Jun02 Sep02 Dec02 Mar03 Jun03 Sep03 Dec03 Mar04 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Sep22 Sep23
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 9.54 18.00 19.16 - 16.37

Competitive Comparison of Winmill's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Winmill'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.


Winmill's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

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



Winmill Graham Number Calculation

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

Winmill's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2006 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*6.528*0.34)
=7.07

Winmill'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*7.074*-0.026)
=N/A

* 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.


Winmill  (OTCPK:WNMLA) 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.

Winmill's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=3.95/N/A
=N/A

* 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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Winmill (Winmill) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
2255 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY, USA, 14624
Winmill & Co Inc through its subsidiaries operates in three segments namely Mutual fund distribution, Fund services consisting primarily of investment management and distribution for the open-end funds and publicly held affiliates.
Executives
Bassett Starr Winmill director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman 11 HANOVER SQUARE, NEW YORK NY 10005
Thomas Bassett Winmill director, 10 percent owner, officer: President P.O. BOX 4, WALPOLE NH 03608
Mark Campbell Winmill director 3814 ROUTE 44, MILLBROOK NY 12545

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