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WVS Financial (WVS Financial) Graham Number : $21.94 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is WVS Financial 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 (2024-05-09), the stock price of WVS Financial is $12.76. WVS Financial's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $21.94. Therefore, WVS Financial's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.68.

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

WVFC' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49   Med: 0.63   Max: 0.84
Current: 0.58

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of WVS Financial was 0.84. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 0.63.

WVFC's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
59.05% of 1370 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.63 vs WVFC: 0.58

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


WVS Financial Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for WVS Financial'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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WVS Financial Graham Number Chart

WVS Financial Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 27.98 27.08 20.03 19.47 22.18

WVS Financial Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Dec23 Mar24
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 - - 21.29 21.43 21.94

Competitive Comparison of WVS Financial's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, WVS Financial'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.


WVS Financial's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry

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

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



WVS Financial Graham Number Calculation

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

WVS Financial's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*21.429*1.02)
=22.18

WVS Financial's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*23.768*0.65)
=18.64

* 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.


WVS Financial  (OTCPK:WVFC) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=12.76/18.64
=0.68

* 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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WVS Financial (WVS Financial) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
9001 Perry Highway, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 15237
WVS Financial Corp provides various banking products and services to residents and businesses. The principal categories of loans in the portfolio are single-family and multi-family residential real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, consumer loans, and commercial loans. The company offers various deposit products, including regular savings accounts, demand accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market deposit accounts, and certificates of deposit, as well as individual retirement account certificates.
Executives
Twomey Edward F Iii director 10081 OAKRIDGE DRIVE, WEXFORD PA 15090
Howard John A Jr director
Mary Magestro-johnston officer: VP,Treas,Chief Acctg Officer 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Lawrence M Lehman director WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Linda K Butia officer: VP, Treas, Chief Acctg Officer 2413 BELLWOOD DRIVE, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Margaret Vonderau director WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Bernard P Lefke officer: VP Savings 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Keith A Simpson officer: V.P., Treasurer & CAO WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Joseph W Unger director 3467 BABCOCK BOULEVARD, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Michael R Rutan officer: SR. VP - OPERATIONS 9356 ALMAR PLACE, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Donald E Hook director WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
John W Grace director 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
Arthur H Brandt director WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
David L Aeberli director WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237
David J Bursic director, officer: President/CEO/Director C/O WVS FINANCIAL CORP, 9001 PERRY HIGHWAY, PITTSBURGH PA 15237

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