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First Financial Bankshares (First Financial Bankshares) Graham Number : $16.16 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is First Financial Bankshares 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 (2024-04-28), the stock price of First Financial Bankshares is $30.36. First Financial Bankshares's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $16.16. Therefore, First Financial Bankshares's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.87.

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

FFIN' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.61   Med: 2.13   Max: 2.66
Current: 1.88

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of First Financial Bankshares was 2.66. The lowest was 1.61. And the median was 2.13.

FFIN's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
94.83% of 1372 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.63 vs FFIN: 1.88

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


First Financial Bankshares Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for First Financial Bankshares'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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First Financial Bankshares Graham Number Chart

First Financial Bankshares 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 14.55 17.53 19.08 15.68 16.11

First Financial Bankshares Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 16.38 16.03 14.74 16.16 16.09

Competitive Comparison of First Financial Bankshares's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, First Financial Bankshares'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.


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

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

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



First Financial Bankshares Graham Number Calculation

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

First Financial Bankshares'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*8.353*1.381)
=16.11

First Financial Bankshares'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*8.353*1.396)
=16.20

* 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.


First Financial Bankshares  (NAS:FFIN) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=30.36/16.20
=1.87

* 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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First Financial Bankshares (First Financial Bankshares) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
400 Pine Street, Abilene, TX, USA, 79601
First Financial Bankshares Inc is a financial and bank holding company. The company operates one line of business (community banking) located in a single geographic area (Texas). The company conducts a full-service commercial banking business through its subsidiaries. The loan portfolio segments of the company include Commercial and Industrial, Municipal, Agricultural, Construction and Development, Farm, Non-Owner Occupied and Owner Occupied Commercial Real Estate, Residential, Consumer Auto and Consumer Non-Auto.
Executives
Michelle S Hickox officer: EVP/CFO 1600 REDBUD BOULEVARD, SUITE 400, MCKINNEY TX 75069
Nickles Robert Clark Jr director 24503 OLD WINDMILL TRAIL, HOCKLEY TX 77447
Johnny Trotter director 400 PINE STREET, C/O FIRST FINANCIAL BANKSHARES, ABILENE TX 79601
Murray Hamilton Edwards director 5423 FM 3217, CLYDE TX 79510
Michael B. Denny director 1202 ELMWOOD DRIVE, ABILENE TX 79605
Anthony April Kaye Bullock director 3606 PRINCETON AVENUE, DALLAS TX 75205
F Scott Dueser director 400 PINE ST, ABILENE TX 79601
Kade Matthews director 400 PINE STREET, C/O FIRST FINANCIAL BANKSHARES, ABILENE TX 79601
Eli Jones director 200 WEST CONGRESS STREET, LAFAYETTE LA 70501
David William Bailey officer: EVP, Commercial Banking P.O. BOX 1581, EASTLAND TX 76448
David L Copeland director PO BOX 2791, ABILENE TX 79604
Tucker S Bridwell director 400 PINE STE 1000, ABILENE TX 79601
James R Gordon officer: EVP-CFO 104 SOUTH MAIN STREET, GREENVILLE SC 29601
Vianei Lopez Braun director 801 CHERRY STREET, SUITE 2000, FT WORTH TX 76102
Ronald N Giddiens director 5808 PECAN VALLEY, SAN ANGELO TX 76904-9531