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Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund (Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund) Graham Number : $5.20 (As of Oct. 2023)


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What is Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund 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 (2024-05-25), the stock price of Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund is $7.95. Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's graham number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was $5.20. Therefore, Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.53.

The historical rank and industry rank for Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

NHS' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.57   Med: 0.65   Max: 1.65
Current: 1.53

During the past 8 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund was 1.65. The lowest was 0.57. And the median was 0.65.

NHS's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
81.41% of 1135 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs NHS: 1.53

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


Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund'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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Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Graham Number Chart

Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Annual Data
Trend Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 18.18 6.50 20.62 - 5.20

Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Semi-Annual Data
Apr16 Oct16 Apr17 Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Apr20 Oct20 Apr21 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23
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 20.54 - - - 5.20

Competitive Comparison of Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund'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.


Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Graham Number Calculation

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

Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*7.499*0.16)
=5.20

Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*7.499*0.16)
=5.20

* 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.


Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund  (AMEX:NHS) 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.

Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Oct. 2023 )
=7.95/5.20
=1.53

* 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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Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund (Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA, 10104-0002
Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund is closed-end management investment company. It seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, a majority of its total assets in high yield debt securities of U.S. and foreign issuers.
Executives
Bank Of America Corp /de/ 10 percent owner BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATE CENTER, 100 N TRYON ST, CHARLOTTE NC 28255
Bank Of America Na 10 percent owner 100 N. TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE NC 28255
Metlife Investment Management, Llc 10 percent owner ONE METLIFE WAY, WHIPPANY NJ 07981
Franklyn E. Smith director C/O NEUBERGER BERMAN INVESTMENT ADVISERS, 1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10104-0002
Ami Kaplan director C/O NEUBERGER BERMAN INVESTMENT ADVISERS, 1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10104-0002
Joseph Lind other: Portfolio Manager 1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10104
Saba Capital Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Chris Kocinski other: Co-Portfolio Manager 190 SOUTH LASALLE STREET, NEUBERGER BERMAN INVESTMENT ADVISERS, CHICAGO IL 60603
Boaz Weinstein 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Bradley Tank other: CIO of Adviser C/O LEHMAN BROTHERS ASSET MANAGEMENT, 190 SOUTH LASALLE STREET, CHICAGO IL 60603-3421
Faith Colish director C/O NEUBERGER BERMAN MANAGEMENT INC, 605 THIRD AVE, NEW YORK NY 10158-0180
Thomas P Oreilly other: Portfolio Manager 200 S WACKER DRIVE STE 2100, C/O LINCOLN CAPITAL FIXED INCOME, CHICAGO IL 60606
Patrick Houlihan Flynn other: Portfolio Manager C/O NEUBERGERF BERMAN MANAGEMENT LLC, 605 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10158-0180
Deborah C. Mclean director C/O NEUBERGER BERMAN MANAGEMENT LLC, 605 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10158-0180
James G. Stavridis director C/O NEUBERGER BERMAN MANAGEMENT LLC, 605 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10158-0180