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KAL Group (JSE:KAL) Graham Number : R56.17 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is KAL 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 (2024-05-24), the stock price of KAL Group is R47.99. KAL Group's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was R56.17. Therefore, KAL Group's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.85.

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

JSE:KAL' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.47   Med: 0.77   Max: 1.24
Current: 0.85

During the past 10 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of KAL Group was 1.24. The lowest was 0.47. And the median was 0.77.

JSE:KAL's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
71.39% of 713 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 1.27 vs JSE:KAL: 0.85

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


KAL Group Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for KAL 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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KAL Group Graham Number Chart

KAL Group Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 43.86 43.75 50.46 42.23 51.23

KAL Group Semi-Annual Data
Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24
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 57.75 43.41 47.82 51.39 56.17

Competitive Comparison of KAL Group's Graham Number

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, KAL 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.


KAL Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, KAL Group's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



KAL Group Graham Number Calculation

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

KAL Group's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*19.526*5.974)
=51.23

KAL Group'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*22.212*6.314)
=56.17

* 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.


KAL Group  (JSE:KAL) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=47.99/56.17
=0.85

* 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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KAL Group (JSE:KAL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1 Westhoven Street, Cape Winelands, Paarl, WC, ZAF, 7646
Kaap Agri Ltd engages in the retail and trading of agricultural, and fuel, and related products. Its segments include the Agrimark segment which derives the majority of its revenue provides a range of production inputs, mechanization equipment and services, and other goods to agricultural producers as well as the public, The Retail Fuel and Convenience provides a full retail fuel offering to a diverse range of customers, including a convenience store and quick service restaurant outlets; Agrimark Grain segment includes the sale of grain products and provides a complete range of services including storage and handling of grain products and the Manufacturing segment manufactures and sells dripper pipe, other irrigation equipment, food-grade plastic bulk bins for the agricultural market.

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