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PACS Group (PACS Group) Graham Number : $2.28 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is PACS Group 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 (2024-06-01), the stock price of PACS Group is $30.40. PACS Group's graham number for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $2.28. Therefore, PACS Group's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 18.09.

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

PACS' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 13.33
Current: 13.33

During the past 3 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of PACS Group was 13.33. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

PACS's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
98.48% of 330 companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 2.035 vs PACS: 13.33

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


PACS Group Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for PACS Group'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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PACS Group Graham Number Chart

PACS Group Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
- 0.56 1.88

PACS Group Quarterly Data
Dec21 Dec22 Mar23 Dec23 Mar24
Graham Number - - - - 2.28

Competitive Comparison of PACS Group's Graham Number

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, PACS Group'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.


PACS Group's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, PACS Group's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

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



PACS Group Graham Number Calculation

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

PACS Group'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*0.209*0.752)
=1.88

PACS Group'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*0.424*0.296)
=1.68

* 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.


PACS Group  (NYSE:PACS) 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.

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

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=30.40/1.68
=18.09

* 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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PACS Group (PACS Group) Business Description

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Address
262 N. University Avenue, Farmington, UT, USA, 84025
PACS Group Inc is a post-acute healthcare company primarily focused on delivering high-quality skilled nursing care through a portfolio of independently operated facilities Its is a nursing providers in the United States based on number of facilities, with over 200 post-acute care facilities across nine states serving over 20,000 patients daily. It also provide senior care, assisted living, and independent living options in some of communities.

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