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Alamo Group (Alamo Group) Graham Number : $109.18 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Alamo Group 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 Alamo Group is $199.63. Alamo Group's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $109.18. Therefore, Alamo Group's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.83.

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

ALG' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.15   Med: 1.87   Max: 3.04
Current: 1.83

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Alamo Group was 3.04. The lowest was 1.15. And the median was 1.87.

ALG's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
77.42% of 155 companies
in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry
Industry Median: 1.15 vs ALG: 1.83

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


Alamo Group Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alamo Group'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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Alamo Group Graham Number Chart

Alamo Group 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 41.31 47.89 63.96 82.12 109.18

Alamo Group 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 82.12 91.87 99.41 105.72 109.18

Competitive Comparison of Alamo Group's Graham Number

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, Alamo Group'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.


Alamo Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, Alamo Group's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Alamo Group Graham Number Calculation

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

Alamo Group'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*46.633*11.36)
=109.18

Alamo Group'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*46.633*11.36)
=109.18

* 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.


Alamo Group  (NYSE:ALG) 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.

Alamo Group's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=199.63/109.18
=1.83

* 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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Alamo Group (Alamo Group) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1627 East Walnut, Seguin, TX, USA, 78155
Alamo Group Inc is engaged in the design and manufacturing of agricultural equipment and infrastructure maintenance equipment. Its products include tractor-mounted mowing and other vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, excavators, vacuum trucks, snow removal equipment, leaf collection equipment, pothole patchers, zero-turn radius mowers, agricultural implements, and related aftermarket parts. The company's reportable segments are Vegetation Management and Industrial Equipment. It generates a majority of its revenue from Vegetation Management. Geographically, the company generates majority of the revenue from the United States.
Executives
Richard Hodges Raborn officer: VP & Gen Mgr Agricultural Div 1627 E. WALNUT ST., SEGUIN TX 78155
Richard J Wehrle officer: VP and Controller 1502 EAST WALNUT, SEGIN TX 78155
Dan Edward Malone officer: EVP & CFO 1502 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Edward Rizzuti officer: VP & General Counsel 5550 SW MACADAM AVENUE, SUITE 200, PORTLAND OR 97239
Eric Etchart director ROOM F, 22F CROSS REGION PLAZA, 899 LINGLING ROAD, SHANGHAI F4 200030
Jeffery Allen Leonard other: EVP NA Industrial Div (USA) 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Robert P Bauer director 415 HOLIDAY DRIVE, PITTSBURGH PA 15220
Nina C Grooms director 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Ronald A Robinson director, officer: President & CEO 1627 EAST WALNUT, SEGUIN TX 78155
Janet S Pollock officer: VP, Human Resources 1627 E WALNUT ST., SEGUIN TX 78155
Michael A Haberman officer: EVP 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Lorie Tekorius director ONE CENTERPOINTE DRIVE, SUITE 200, LAKE OSWEGO OR 97035
Lori L Sullivan officer: VP, Internal Audit 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155-5259
David W Grzelak director 1502 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Rick Parod director 2707 N 108TH STREET STE102, OMAHA NE 68164