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Ark Restaurants (Ark Restaurants) Graham Number : $14.63 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Ark Restaurants 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 (2024-04-26), the stock price of Ark Restaurants is $13.63. Ark Restaurants's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $14.63. Therefore, Ark Restaurants's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.93.

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

ARKR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.71   Med: 1.38   Max: 2.17
Current: 0.93

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Ark Restaurants was 2.17. The lowest was 0.71. And the median was 1.38.

ARKR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
81.28% of 203 companies
in the Restaurants industry
Industry Median: 1.88 vs ARKR: 0.93

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


Ark Restaurants Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ark Restaurants'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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Ark Restaurants Graham Number Chart

Ark Restaurants Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 15.04 - 11.28 21.71 15.65

Ark Restaurants Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 20.75 19.33 18.28 15.09 14.63

Competitive Comparison of Ark Restaurants's Graham Number

For the Restaurants subindustry, Ark Restaurants'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.


Ark Restaurants's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Ark Restaurants's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ark Restaurants Graham Number Calculation

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

Ark Restaurants's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*10.666*1.02)
=15.65

Ark Restaurants'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*11.079*0.859)
=14.63

* 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.


Ark Restaurants  (NAS:ARKR) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=13.63/14.63
=0.93

* 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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Ark Restaurants (Ark Restaurants) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
85 5th Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10003
Ark Restaurants Corp owns and operates around 17 restaurants and bars, 16 fast food concepts, and catering operations in the USA. The Las Vegas operations include New York Hotel & Casino Resort, hotel room service operations, banquet facilities, employee dining room, food court concepts, and a restaurant within the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. It operates a restaurant and a bar in the Resorts Atlantic City Hotel and Casino and a restaurant in the Tropicana Hotel and Casino. The Florida operations include The Rustic Inn in Dania Beach, Shuckers in Jensen Beach, JB's on the Beach in Deerfield Beach, The Blue Moon Fish Company in Fort Lauderdale, and fast food facilities in Tampa and Hollywood. In Alabama, it operates Original Oyster Houses in Gulf Shores and Spanish Fort.
Executives
Satterfield Thomas A Jr 10 percent owner 2609 CALDWELL MILL LN, BIRMINGHAM AL 35243
Michael S Weinstein director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman & CEO C/O ARK RESTAURANTS CORP, 85 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10003
Anthony Sirica director, officer: Chief Financial Officer 85 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10003
Paul Gordon director, officer: Senior Vice President C/O ARK LAS VEGAS RESTAURANTS CORP, 3790 LAS VEGAS BLVD S SUITE 11, LAS VEGAS NV 89109
Vincent Pascal director, officer: Senior Vice President C/O ARK RESTAURANTS CORP, 85 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY 10003
Steven Shulman director C/O PARAGON TECHNOLOGIES INC, 600 KUEBLER ROAD, EASTON PA 18040
Robert J Stewart director, officer: President and CFO C/O ARK RESTAURANTS CORP, 85 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY 10003
Arthur Stainman director 320 EAST 72ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10021
Bruce R Lewin director G&G RETAIL INC, 520 EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10018
Robert Towers director, officer: Executive Vice President C/O ARK RESTAURANTS CORP, 85 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY 10003
Marcia Allen director P.O. BOX 399, 2600 W. HOMESTEAD CIRCLE, WILSON WY 83014
Prides Capital Partners, Llc 10 percent owner 200 HIGH STREET, SUITE 700, BOSTON MA 02110
Robert Thomas Zankel director 808 BROADWAY, PHB, NEW YORK NY 10003
Stephen A Novick director ANDREA & CHARLES BRONFMAN PHILANTROPIES, 110 EAST 59TH STREET, 26TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Charles E Mccarthy 10 percent owner 200 HIGH STREET, SUITE 700, BOSTON MA 02110

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