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Kairous Acquisition (Kairous Acquisition) Graham Number : $1.77 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Kairous 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 (2024-05-23), the stock price of Kairous Acquisition is $11.8811. Kairous Acquisition's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $1.77. Therefore, Kairous Acquisition's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 6.72.

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

KACL' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.45   Med: 6.59   Max: 9.97
Current: 6.71

During the past 3 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Kairous Acquisition was 9.97. The lowest was 4.45. And the median was 6.59.

KACL's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
91.67% of 216 companies
in the Diversified Financial Services industry
Industry Median: 1.86 vs KACL: 6.71

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


Kairous Acquisition Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Kairous 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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Kairous Acquisition Graham Number Chart

Kairous Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Graham Number
- - 2.58

Kairous Acquisition Quarterly Data
Apr21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.79 2.47 1.80 1.66 1.77

Competitive Comparison of Kairous Acquisition's Graham Number

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Kairous 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.


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

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

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



Kairous Acquisition Graham Number Calculation

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

Kairous Acquisition's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*4.238*0.07)
=2.58

Kairous 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*2.782*0.05)
=1.77

* 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.


Kairous Acquisition  (NAS:KACL) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=11.8811/1.77
=6.72

* 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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Kairous Acquisition (Kairous Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No. 685, Jalan Damansara, Unit 9-3, Oval Tower @ Damansara, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, MYS, 60000
Kairous Acquisition Corp Ltd is a blank check company.
Executives
Owl Creek Asset Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 640 FIFTH AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Jeffrey A Altman 10 percent owner 640 FIFTH AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Hong Leong Chee director UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000
Kim Kiat Ng director UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000
Siak Keng Ang director UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000
Kairous Asia Ltd 10 percent owner UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000
Wang Cheung Wang Philip officer: Chief Financial Officer UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000
Hsien-chieng Steve Hsia director UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000
Lee Moh Hon Joseph director, officer: Chief Executive Officer UNIT 9-3, OVAL TOWER @ DAMANSARA NO. 685, JALAN DAMANSARA, TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL, KUALA LAMPUR N8 60000

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