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Zalando SE (XTER:ZAL) Graham Number : €7.39 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Zalando SE 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 (2024-05-06), the stock price of Zalando SE is €23.81. Zalando SE's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €7.39. Therefore, Zalando SE's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 3.22.

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

XTER:ZAL' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.82   Med: 5.75   Max: 10.51
Current: 3.22

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Zalando SE was 10.51. The lowest was 2.82. And the median was 5.75.

XTER:ZAL's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
82.75% of 713 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 1.3 vs XTER:ZAL: 3.22

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


Zalando SE Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Zalando SE'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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Zalando SE Graham Number Chart

Zalando SE Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.31 12.18 12.27 3.15 7.60

Zalando SE Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 2.78 4.65 7.10 8.26 7.39

Competitive Comparison of Zalando SE's Graham Number

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Zalando SE'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.


Zalando SE's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

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

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



Zalando SE Graham Number Calculation

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

Zalando SE'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*7.577*0.339)
=7.60

Zalando SE's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*7.577*0.32)
=7.39

* 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.


Zalando SE  (XTER:ZAL) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=23.81/7.39
=3.22

* 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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Zalando SE (XTER:ZAL) Business Description

Address
Valeska-Gert-Strabe 5, Berlin, DEU, 10243
Zalando, founded in 2008, is Europe's biggest pure-play online fashion platform. Zalando is present in 25 European countries, and its major market is the DACH region, comprising Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, which accounts for around 40% of revenue. The company commands 4% of European apparel sales and 12% market share in European online apparel sales. It has 12 fulfilment centers and presents over 7,000 brands on its platform. In 2022, Zalando had over 50 million active users (more than 10% of the population in countries where the firm has a presence) and over 7 billion site visits.
Executives
James Marvin Freeman Board of Directors
Anders Holch Povlsen Supervisory Board
David Schröder Board of Directors

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