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Vaxcyte (Vaxcyte) Graham Number : $N/A (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Vaxcyte 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 (2024-05-26), the stock price of Vaxcyte is $68.76. Vaxcyte's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $N/A. Therefore, Vaxcyte's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is N/A.

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

PCVX's Price-to-Graham-Number is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 2.09
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Graham-Number only.

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


Vaxcyte Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Vaxcyte'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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Vaxcyte Graham Number Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Vaxcyte's Graham Number

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Vaxcyte'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.


Vaxcyte's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Vaxcyte's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Vaxcyte Graham Number Calculation

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

Vaxcyte'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*13.008*-3.349)
=N/A

Vaxcyte'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*18.243*-4.08)
=N/A

* 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.


Vaxcyte  (NAS:PCVX) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=68.76/N/A
=N/A

* 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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Vaxcyte (Vaxcyte) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
825 Industrial Road, Suite 300, San Carlos, CA, USA, 94070
Vaxcyte Inc is a vaccine company seeking to improve global health by developing novel vaccines to treat patients suffering from the most common and deadly diseases. Its product comprises. of Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. The firm's product candidate consists of VAX-24, VAX-XP, VAX-A1, and VAX-PG.
Executives
Andrew Guggenhime officer: CFO, CBO C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Grant Pickering director, officer: President & CEO C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Mikhail Eydelman officer: SVP, Gen Counsel & Corp Sec C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SUITE 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Jim Wassil officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 353 HATCH DRIVE, FOSTER CITY CA 94404
Heath Lukatch director 326 BOLLAY DRIVE, GOLETA CA 93117
Elvia Cowan officer: See Remarks Section C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SUITE 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Jeff Fairman officer: VP, Research C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Paul Sauer officer: SVP Process Dev, Manufacturing C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL DRIVE, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94404
Michael E. Kamarck director C/O UNILIFE CORPORATION, 250 CROSS FARM LANE, YORK PA 17406
Carlos V Paya director C/O IMMUNE DESIGN CORP., 1616 EASTLAKE AVE. E, SUITE 310, SEATTLE WA 98102
Harpreet S. Dhaliwal officer: SVP Cml Mfg & Supply Chain C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Anne S Drapeau director C/O IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED, ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON MA 02110
Teri Loxam director C/O SQZ BIOTECHNOLOGIES COMPANY, 200 ARSENAL YARDS BOULEVARD, SUITE 210, WATERTOWN MA 02472
Jane Wright Mitchell officer: General Counsel C/0 ACELRX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 351 GALVESTON DRIVE, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
Robert Lorne Hopfner director C/O BAY CITY CAPITAL, LLC, 750 BATTERY STREET, SUITE 400, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111