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Laurentian Bank of Canada (Laurentian Bank of Canada) Graham Number : $54.14 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Laurentian Bank of Canada 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 (2024-05-03), the stock price of Laurentian Bank of Canada is $19.00. Laurentian Bank of Canada's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $54.14. Therefore, Laurentian Bank of Canada's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.35.

The historical rank and industry rank for Laurentian Bank of Canada's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LRCDF' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.34   Med: 0.65   Max: 0.83
Current: 0.36

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Laurentian Bank of Canada was 0.83. The lowest was 0.34. And the median was 0.65.

LRCDF's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
86.52% of 1372 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.63 vs LRCDF: 0.36

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


Laurentian Bank of Canada Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Laurentian Bank of Canada'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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Laurentian Bank of Canada Graham Number Chart

Laurentian Bank of Canada Annual Data
Trend Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 48.45 40.40 57.43 57.27 54.18

Laurentian Bank of Canada Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 58.50 57.26 57.25 54.72 54.14

Competitive Comparison of Laurentian Bank of Canada's Graham Number

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Laurentian Bank of Canada'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.


Laurentian Bank of Canada's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Banks Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Laurentian Bank of Canada's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Laurentian Bank of Canada Graham Number Calculation

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

Laurentian Bank of Canada's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*39.586*3.296)
=54.18

Laurentian Bank of Canada's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*40.929*3.183)
=54.14

* 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.


Laurentian Bank of Canada  (OTCPK:LRCDF) 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.

Laurentian Bank of Canada's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=19.00/54.14
=0.35

* 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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Laurentian Bank of Canada (Laurentian Bank of Canada) Business Description

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1360, Boulevard Rene-Levesque Ouest, Suite 600, Secretariat Corporatif, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3G 0E5
Laurentian Bank of Canada provides personal banking, business banking and real estate and commercial financing to its personal, business, and institutional customers across Canada and the United States. The company reports three operating segments: personal, commercial banking, and capital markets. The personal segment offers financial services to retail clients. The commercial banking segment provides financial services, commercial banking, real estate financing, and equipment and inventory financing to business clients. The firm launched LBC Digital, allowing it to expand its customer reach from coast to coast through a direct-to-customer channel. The Canadian geographic segment generates majority of the revenue for the company.

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