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The St. Joe Co (The St. Joe Co) Graham Number

: $18.55 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 (2024-04-19), the stock price of The St. Joe Co is $54.88. The St. Joe Co's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $18.55. Therefore, The St. Joe Co's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.96.

The historical rank and industry rank for The St. Joe Co's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

JOE' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.57   Med: 2.4   Max: 4.81
Current: 2.96

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of The St. Joe Co was 4.81. The lowest was 0.57. And the median was 2.40.

JOE's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
90.4% of 1136 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 0.765 vs JOE: 2.96

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


The St. Joe Co Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for The St. Joe Co'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.

* Premium members only.

The St. Joe Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.58 13.13 16.78 16.10 18.48

The St. Joe Co Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 16.10 15.84 18.66 19.67 18.55

Competitive Comparison

For the Real Estate - Diversified subindustry, The St. Joe Co'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.


The St. Joe Co Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, The St. Joe Co's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



The St. Joe Co Graham Number Calculation

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

The St. Joe Co'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*11.702*1.297)
=18.48

The St. Joe Co'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*11.702*1.307)
=18.55

* 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.


The St. Joe Co  (NYSE:JOE) 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.

The St. Joe Co's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=54.88/18.55
=2.96

* 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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The St. Joe Co (The St. Joe Co) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
130 Richard Jackson Boulevard, Suite 200, Panama City Beach, FL, USA, 32407
The St. Joe Co is a real estate development, asset management, and operating company and it has three operating segments; the Residential segment plans and develops residential communities and sells homesites to homebuilders or retail consumers, the Hospitality segment features a private membership club (the Watersound Club), hotel operations, food and beverage operations, golf courses, beach clubs, retail outlets, gulf-front vacation rentals, management services, marinas, and other entertainment assets, and Commercial segment include leasing of commercial property, multi-family, senior living, self-storage, and other assets and it also oversees the planning, development, entitlement, management, and sale of commercial and rural land holdings.
Executives
Fairholme Funds Inc 10 percent owner 5966 S DIXIE HWY, SUITE 300, SOUTH MIAMI FL 33143
Jorge Luis Gonzalez officer: Sr Vice President-Development 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32461
Marek Bakun officer: Chief Financial Officer 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Elizabeth J Walters officer: SVP, GC & Corporate Secretary 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32641
Rhea Goff officer: SVP & Chief Admin. Officer 133 S WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32461
Howard S Frank director
Kenneth Borick officer: SVP, General Counsel 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Cesar L Alvarez director C/O PEDIATRIX MEDICAL GROUP, LEGAL DEPT 1301- CONCORD TERRACE, SUNRISE FL 33323
Patrick Wayne Murphy officer: SVP, Operations 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Fairholme Capital Management Llc 10 percent owner 5966 S DIXIE HWY, SUITE 300, SOUTH MIAMI FL 33143
James S Hunt director 300 N. BEACH STREET, DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114
Susan D Mermer officer: Chief Accounting Officer 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Vito S Portera director 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
David Harrelson officer: Vice President, Timberland 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Joanne Kay Viard officer: Chief Accounting Officer 133 S. WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413