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JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust (LSE:JMF) Graham Number : £12.38 (As of Jun. 2023)


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What is JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust 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 (2024-05-16), the stock price of JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust is £9.12. JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was £12.38. Therefore, JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.74.

The historical rank and industry rank for JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:JMF' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.36   Med: 0.44   Max: 0.74
Current: 0.74

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust was 0.74. The lowest was 0.36. And the median was 0.44.

LSE:JMF's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 0.77 vs LSE:JMF: 0.74

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


JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust'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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JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust Graham Number Chart

JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - 39.43 - 12.38

JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust Semi-Annual Data
Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
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 39.41 32.05 - - 12.38

Competitive Comparison of JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust'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.


JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust Graham Number Calculation

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

JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust'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*10.296*0.662)
=12.38

JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*10.296*0.662)
=12.38

* 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.


JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust  (LSE:JMF) 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.

JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jun. 2023 )
=9.12/12.38
=0.74

* 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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JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust (LSE:JMF) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
60 Victoria Embankment, London, GBR, EC4Y 0JP
JPMorgan Mid Cap Investment Trust PLC is an investment trust. It generates revenue from its business of long and short-term borrowings, to achieve capital growth. For this purpose, it invests in medium-sized companies that fall under the London Stock Exchange (FTSE) 250 companies. The trust's core objective is to provide its shareholders a steady pattern of dividend payments by generating returns from investment across varied sectors such as consumer services, financials, industrials, technology, consumer goods, basic materials, healthcare, oil and gas, telecommunications, and utilities.

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