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City Holding Co (City Holding Co) Graham Number

: $78.44 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of City Holding Co is $102.14. City Holding Co's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $78.44. Therefore, City Holding Co's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.30.

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

CHCO' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.02   Med: 1.24   Max: 1.57
Current: 1.3

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of City Holding Co was 1.57. The lowest was 1.02. And the median was 1.24.

CHCO's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
89.63% of 1379 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 0.61 vs CHCO: 1.30

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


City Holding Co Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for City Holding Co'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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City Holding Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 63.64 67.92 69.05 69.22 78.45

City Holding Co Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 69.23 72.58 75.25 74.09 78.44

Competitive Comparison

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, City Holding Co'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.


City Holding Co Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

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

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



City Holding Co Graham Number Calculation

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

City Holding Co'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*34.689*7.886)
=78.45

City Holding Co'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*34.689*7.884)
=78.44

* 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.


City Holding Co  (NAS:CHCO) 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.

City Holding Co's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=102.14/78.44
=1.30

* 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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City Holding Co (City Holding Co) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
25 Gatewater Road, P.O. Box 7520, Charleston, WV, USA, 25313
City Holding Co is a financial holding company. It provides banking, trust and investment management and other financial solutions through its network of banking offices located in the states of West Virginia, Virginia, southeastern Ohio and Kentucky. It offers various products and services such as overdraft facilities, saving accounts, credit card and debit cards, loans for various purposes, investment advisory, securities brokerage, insurance, technology products, and others. These products and services are provided to commercial banking, consumer banking, mortgage banking, wealth management and trust services.
Executives
David L Bumgarner officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer 214 BENT TREE ESTATES, SCOTT DEPOT WV 25560
J. Thomas Jones director ONE CITYPLACE DRIVE, SUITE 300, ST. LOUIS MO 63141
Hylton Tracy W Ii director PO BOX 1109, BECKLEY WV 25802-1109
Robert D Fisher director
Sharon Horton Rowe director 25 GATEWATER ROAD, CROSS LANES WV 25313
Quinlan Michael T Jr officer: SVP, Branch Banking 209 PARKVIEW DRIVE, ST ALBANS WV 25177
Gregory A Burton director 4504 WASHINGTON AVENUE SE, CHARLESTON WV 25304
Charles R Hageboeck director, officer: President & CEO
John A Derito officer: EVP, Commercial Banking 6 FOXCHASE ROAD, CHARLESTON WV 25304
Jeffrey Dale Legge officer: SVP, CAO & CIO 634 RIDGEWOOD ROAD, HUNTINGTON WV 25701
Javier A Reyes director 65 FALLING WATER LANE, MORGANTOWN WV 26508
Craig G Stilwell officer: EVP Retail Banking
Diane W Strong-treister director 503 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, CHARLESTON WV 25302
James L Rossi director
Charles W Fairchilds director C/O COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CORP, 38 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, STAUNTON VA 24401

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