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The Timken Co (The Timken Co) Graham Number : $20.21 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is The Timken Co 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 (2024-04-25), the stock price of The Timken Co is $84.85. The Timken Co's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $20.21. Therefore, The Timken Co's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 4.20.

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

TKR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.36   Med: 2.48   Max: 4.38
Current: 4.2

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of The Timken Co was 4.38. The lowest was 1.36. And the median was 2.48.

TKR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
90.09% of 2209 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.51 vs TKR: 4.20

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


The Timken Co Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Timken 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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The Timken Co Graham Number Chart

The Timken Co 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 12.85 21.06 30.54 28.47 20.26

The Timken 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 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 28.23 32.86 31.67 24.98 20.21

Competitive Comparison of The Timken Co's Graham Number

For the Tools & Accessories subindustry, The Timken 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.


The Timken Co's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, The Timken Co's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



The Timken Co Graham Number Calculation

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

The Timken 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*2.587*7.05)
=20.26

The Timken 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*2.587*7.02)
=20.21

* 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.


The Timken Co  (NYSE:TKR) 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.

The Timken Co's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=84.85/20.21
=4.20

* 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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The Timken Co (The Timken Co) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
4500 Mount Pleasant Street North West, North Canton, OH, USA, 44720-5450
The Timken Company is a manufacturer of bearings, gear belts, and chain-related products. The company sells its portfolio of bearings, including tapered, spherical and cylindrical roller bearings, and thrust and ball bearings, through a network of authorised dealers to end users or directly to original equipment manufacturers. End-market sectors include general industrial, automotive, rail, energy, heavy truck, defense, agriculture, metals, mining, civil aerospace, construction, pulp and paper, and cement industries. Its segments are Mobile Industries and Process industries. Timken generates its revenue in the United States of America.
Executives
Philip D. Fracassa officer: CFO 1835 DUEBER AVENUE SW, CANTON OH 44706-0928
Christopher A Coughlin officer: President-proc ind & supp chn 1835 DUEBER AVE SW, CANTON OH 44706
Timken John M Jr director 200 MARKET AVE N STE 210, CANTON OH 44702
Hansal N. Patel officer: VP, GC, and Secretary 4500 MOUNT PLEASANT ST. NW, NORTH CANTON OH 44720
Richard G Kyle officer: President-mob ind & aerospace 1835 DUEBER AVE SW, CANTON OH 44706
Jacqueline F Woods director
Natasha Pollock officer: VP - Human Resources 4500 MT. PLEASANT ST. NW, NORTH CANTON OH 44720
Landin Bo Hans Olof officer: Group Vice President 4500 MT. PLEASANT ST. NW, NORTH CANTON OH 44720
Timken Ward J Jr director, officer: Chairman of the Board 200 MARKET AVE N STE 210, CANTON OH 44702
Ronald J Myers officer: VP - Human Resources 4500 MT. PLEASANT ST. NW, NORTH CANTON OH 44720
Sarah C Lauber director 833 EAST MICHIGAN STREET, SUITE 900, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Shelly Marie Chadwick officer: Chief Accounting Officer 6070 PARKLAND BLVD, MAYFIELD HTS. OH 44124
Karl Andreas Roellgen officer: VP - Europe, Asia and Africa 4500 MT. PLEASANT ST. NW, NORTH CANTON OH 44720
Frank C Sullivan director
Elizabeth Ann Harrell director 4500 MT. PLEASANT ST. NW, NORTH CANTON OH 44720