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Palomar Holdings (Palomar Holdings) Graham Number : $39.22 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Palomar Holdings 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 (2024-05-01), the stock price of Palomar Holdings is $79.04. Palomar Holdings's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $39.22. Therefore, Palomar Holdings's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 2.02.

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

PLMR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.42   Med: 2.45   Max: 8.53
Current: 2.02

During the past 8 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Palomar Holdings was 8.53. The lowest was 1.42. And the median was 2.45.

PLMR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
85.46% of 399 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 0.86 vs PLMR: 2.02

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


Palomar Holdings Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Palomar Holdings'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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Palomar Holdings Graham Number Chart

Palomar Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 19.01 10.42 26.41 30.62 39.22

Palomar Holdings 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 30.62 31.94 32.13 35.55 39.22

Competitive Comparison of Palomar Holdings's Graham Number

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Palomar Holdings'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.


Palomar Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Palomar Holdings's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



Palomar Holdings Graham Number Calculation

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

Palomar Holdings'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*18.526*3.69)
=39.22

Palomar Holdings'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*18.526*3.69)
=39.22

* 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.


Palomar Holdings  (NAS:PLMR) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=79.04/39.22
=2.02

* 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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Palomar Holdings (Palomar Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
7979 Ivanhoe Avenue, Suite 500, La Jolla, CA, USA, 92037
Palomar Holdings Inc is a United States-based company focused on the provision of specialty property insurance earthquake, wind, and flood insurance products. The company's core focus is on the residential and commercial earthquake markets in earthquake-exposed states such as California, Oregon, Washington, and states with exposure to the New Madrid Seismic Zone. It offers specialty property insurance products in the target markets to both individuals and businesses through multiple channels, including retail agents, program administrators, wholesale brokers, and in partnership with other insurance companies. Its products include Residential Earthquake, Commercial Earthquake, Specialty Homeowners, Inland Marine, Commercial All Risk, Hawaii Hurricane, Residential Flood and others.
Executives
T Christopher Uchida officer: Chief Financial Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Jon Christianson officer: Chief Operating Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Angela L. Grant officer: Chief Legal Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Michelle Antoinette Johnson officer: Senior VP, People & Talent 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Jonathan Knutzen officer: Chief Risk Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92121
Mac Armstrong director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
William Bold officer: Chief Strategy Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Heath A Fisher officer: President 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Martha Notaras director 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Robert E Dowdell director
Daina Middleton director C/O MARIN SOFTWARE INCORPORATED, 123 MISSION STREET, 25TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Richard H Taketa director 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Britt Morries officer: Chief Operating Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Andrew T Robinson officer: Chief Underwriting Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Daryl Bradley director 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037