How to buy Graham Holdings Company (GHC) stock

Graham Holdings Company is an education & training services business based in the US. Graham Holdings Company shares (GHC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Graham Holdings Company employs 10,833 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Graham Holdings Company stock price (NYSE: GHC)

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Graham Holdings Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-07-23.

Latest market close	$662.54
52-week range	$373.48 - $683.42
50-day moving average	$648.37
200-day moving average	$616.64
Wall St. target price	$780.00
PE ratio	7.4919
Dividend yield	$5.86 (0.89%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$87.61

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Graham Holdings Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $662.54 from 2021-05-28

1 week (2021-07-14)	N/A
1 month (2021-06-25)	5.21%
3 months (2021-04-21)	N/A
6 months (2021-01-21)	N/A

1 year (2020-07-21)	N/A
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Is Graham Holdings Company under- or over-valued?

Valuing Graham Holdings Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Graham Holdings Company's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Graham Holdings Company's P/E ratio

Graham Holdings Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 7x. In other words, Graham Holdings Company shares trade at around 7x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Graham Holdings Company's EBITDA

Graham Holdings Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $351.5 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Graham Holdings Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Graham Holdings Company financials

Revenue TTM	$2.9 billion
Operating margin TTM	7.82%
Gross profit TTM	$977 million
Return on assets TTM	2.31%
Return on equity TTM	12.57%
Profit margin	15.55%
Book value	$771.27
Market capitalisation	$3.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Graham Holdings Company shares

There are currently 139,528 Graham Holdings Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Graham Holdings Company's "short interest". This figure is 108.1% up from 67,038 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Graham Holdings Company shares can be evaluated.

Graham Holdings Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Graham Holdings Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Graham Holdings Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Graham Holdings Company shares traded daily (recently around 43739.184952978). Graham Holdings Company's SIR currently stands at 3.19. In other words for every 100,000 Graham Holdings Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3190 shares are currently held short.

However Graham Holdings Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Graham Holdings Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable Graham Holdings Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Graham Holdings Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Graham Holdings Company shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.036% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Graham Holdings Company shares, roughly 36 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Graham Holdings Company.

Find out more about how you can short Graham Holdings Company stock.

Graham Holdings Company share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 6.36% of net profits

Recently Graham Holdings Company has paid out, on average, around 6.36% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.91% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Graham Holdings Company shareholders could enjoy a 0.91% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Graham Holdings Company's case, that would currently equate to about $5.86 per share.

While Graham Holdings Company's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Graham Holdings Company is investing more in its future growth.

Graham Holdings Company's most recent dividend payout was on 4 August 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 July 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Graham Holdings Company's shares ever split?

Graham Holdings Company's shares were split on a 1655:1000 basis on 30 June 2015. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1655 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Graham Holdings Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 39.6% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Graham Holdings Company shares which in turn could have impacted Graham Holdings Company's share price.

Graham Holdings Company share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Graham Holdings Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $373.4785 up to $683.4221. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Graham Holdings Company's is 1.161. This would suggest that Graham Holdings Company's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Graham Holdings Company overview

Graham Holdings Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified education and media company worldwide. It provides test preparation services and materials; data science education, and training and healthcare simulation services; professional training and exam preparation for professional certifications and licensures; and non-academic operations support services to Purdue University Global. The company also offers training, test preparation, and degrees for accounting and financial services professionals; English-language training, academic preparation programs, and test preparation for English proficiency exams; and A-level examination preparation services, as well as operates three colleges, including a business school, a higher education institution, and an online learning institution. In addition, it owns and operates seven television stations; and provides social media management tools designed to connect newsrooms with their users, as well as produces Foreign Policy magazine and ForeignPolicy. com website. Further, the company publishes Slate, an online magazine; and two French-language news magazine websites at slate. fr and slateafrique.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Graham Holdings Company is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 21.101% of Graham Holdings Company shares are held by insiders and 80.128% by institutions. How many people work for Graham Holdings Company?
Latest data suggests 10,833 work at Graham Holdings Company. When does the fiscal year end for Graham Holdings Company?
Graham Holdings Company's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Graham Holdings Company based?
Graham Holdings Company's address is: 1300 North 17th Street, Arlington, VA, United States, 22209 What is Graham Holdings Company's ISIN number?
Graham Holdings Company's international securities identification number is: US3846371041 What is Graham Holdings Company's CUSIP number?
Graham Holdings Company's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 384637104