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Utah Medical Products (Utah Medical Products) Graham Number

: $55.74 (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 Utah Medical Products is $68.58. Utah Medical Products's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $55.74. Therefore, Utah Medical Products's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.23.

The historical rank and industry rank for Utah Medical Products's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

UTMD' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.2   Med: 2.45   Max: 3.23
Current: 1.23

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Utah Medical Products was 3.23. The lowest was 1.20. And the median was 2.45.

UTMD's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
70.63% of 378 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 1.74 vs UTMD: 1.23

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


Utah Medical Products Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Utah Medical Products'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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Utah Medical Products 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 36.56 34.13 43.08 49.56 51.35

Utah Medical Products 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 50.33 52.86 54.40 54.89 55.74

Competitive Comparison

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Utah Medical Products'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.


Utah Medical Products Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Utah Medical Products's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Utah Medical Products's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Utah Medical Products Graham Number Calculation

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

Utah Medical Products'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*30.213*3.879)
=51.35

Utah Medical Products'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*30.213*4.57)
=55.74

* 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.


Utah Medical Products  (NAS:UTMD) 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.

Utah Medical Products's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=68.58/55.74
=1.23

* 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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Utah Medical Products (Utah Medical Products) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
7043 South 300 West, Midvale, UT, USA, 84047
Utah Medical Products Inc is involved in the business of developing, manufacturing, and distributing medical devices that are mainly proprietary, disposable and for hospital use. The firm produces its products for Blood pressure monitoring, Blood collection, Electrosurgery, Gynecology, Neonatal critical care, perinatology, and Urology. The company's product portfolio includes Electrosurgical pens, Tenacula, Endoscopic bulb irrigators, Blood bag spikes. Its products are used mainly in critical care areas, labor and delivery departments of hospitals as well as outpatient clinics and physicians offices.
Executives
Paul O Richins director, officer: VP, Treasurer, Asst. Secretary 7043 SOUTH 300 WEST, MIDVALE UT 84047
Barbara A Payne director
Ernst G Hoyer director
Kevin L Cornwell director, officer: Chairman, CEO, Secretary
Brian Koopman officer: Principal Financial Officer 108 E 1700 S, BOUNTIFUL UT 84010
James H Beeson director 7043 SOUTH 300 WEST, MIDVALE UT 84047
Greg A Leclaire officer: Chief Financial Officer 5225 WILEY POST WAY, SUITE 500, SALT LAKE CITY UT 84116
Stephen W Bennett director

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