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ESH Acquisition (ESH Acquisition) Graham Number : $6.34 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is ESH Acquisition 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 (2024-05-28), the stock price of ESH Acquisition is $10.40. ESH Acquisition's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $6.34. Therefore, ESH Acquisition's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.64.

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

ESHA' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.63   Med: 2.05   Max: 2.99
Current: 1.64

During the past 3 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of ESH Acquisition was 2.99. The lowest was 1.63. And the median was 2.05.

ESHA's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
57.21% of 215 companies
in the Diversified Financial Services industry
Industry Median: 1.81 vs ESHA: 1.64

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


ESH Acquisition Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for ESH Acquisition'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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ESH Acquisition Graham Number Chart

ESH Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
- - 6.25

ESH Acquisition Quarterly Data
Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only - 0.43 3.38 4.99 6.34

Competitive Comparison of ESH Acquisition's Graham Number

For the Shell Companies subindustry, ESH Acquisition'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.


ESH Acquisition's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, ESH Acquisition's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



ESH Acquisition Graham Number Calculation

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

ESH Acquisition'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*8.272*0.21)
=6.25

ESH Acquisition's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*8.35*0.214)
=6.34

* 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.


ESH Acquisition  (NAS:ESHA) 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.

ESH Acquisition's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=10.40/6.34
=1.64

* 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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ESH Acquisition (ESH Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
228 Park Avenue S, Suite 89898, New York, NY, USA, 10003-1502
Website
ESH Acquisition Corp is a newly organized blank check company.
Executives
James L Francis director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer 1997 ANNAPOLIS EXCHANGE PARKWAY, SUITE 410, ANNAPOLIS MD 21401
Jonathan D Morris director, officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O IMAGEWARE SYSTEMS, INC., 13500 EVENING CREEK DRIVE N SUITE 550, SAN DIEGO CA 92128
Allen R Weiss director C/O DICK'S SPORTING GOODS, INC., 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Christina M Francis director 104 COLEMAN BOULEVARD, SAVANNAH GA 31408
Thomas Wolber director 1724 WINDERMERE DOWNS PL, WINDERMERE FL 34786
Christopher Homer Ackerley director 1840 BROADMOOR DR E, SEATTLE WA 98112
Jonathan Gordon director 270 LAFAYETTER STREET, SUITE 810, NEW YORK NY 10012

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