How to buy Graham Holdings Company stock | $453.04

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 12,053 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.9 billion.

How to buy shares in Graham Holdings Company

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Graham Holdings Company. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: GHC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Graham Holdings Company reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$453.04, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Graham Holdings Company, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Graham Holdings Company. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Graham Holdings Company share price

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Graham Holdings Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-01-14.

Latest market close	USD$453.04
52-week range	USD$264.7662 - USD$616.932
50-day moving average	USD$492.7024
200-day moving average	USD$427.6295
Wall St. target price	USD$610
PE ratio	14.0543
Dividend yield	USD$5.8 (1.05%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$39.805

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Graham Holdings Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $453.04 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-11)	-17.43%
1 month (2020-12-18)	-6.14%
3 months (2020-10-16)	10.49%
6 months (2020-07-17)	24.81%

1 year (2020-01-17)	-27.30%
2 years (2019-01-18)	-31.27%
3 years (2018-01-18)	580.85
5 years (2016-01-15)	5.83%

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 14x. In other words, Graham Holdings Company shares trade at around 14x 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 USD$419.5 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	USD$2.9 billion
Operating margin TTM	10.07%
Gross profit TTM	USD$908.9 million
Return on assets TTM	3.19%
Return on equity TTM	6.61%
Profit margin	7.3%
Book value	$647.125
Market capitalisation	USD$2.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Graham Holdings Company shares

There are currently 70,986 Graham Holdings Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Graham Holdings Company's "short interest". This figure is 24% up from 57,232 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 31549.333333333). Graham Holdings Company's SIR currently stands at 2.25. In other words for every 100,000 Graham Holdings Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2250 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 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Graham Holdings Company shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0308% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Graham Holdings Company shares, roughly 31 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: 27.27% of net profits

Recently Graham Holdings Company has paid out, on average, around 27.27% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.05% 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 1.05% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Graham Holdings Company's case, that would currently equate to about $5.8 per share.

While Graham Holdings Company's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Graham Holdings Company may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Graham Holdings Company's most recent dividend payout was on 5 November 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 October 2020 (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 1 July 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 $264.7662 up to $616.932. 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 1.1056. 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 one business school, one higher education institution, and one 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.com. Additionally, it provides marketing solutions on social, mobile, and video platforms; home health and hospice services; burners, igniters, dampers, and controls; screw jacks, linear actuators and related linear motion products, and lifting systems; pressure impregnated kiln-dried lumber and plywood products; cybersecurity training solutions; digital advertising services; and power charging and data systems, industrial and commercial indoor lighting solutions, and electrical components and assemblies. The company also owns and operates 13 restaurants; and engages in automobile dealerships business. The company was formerly known as The Washington Post Company and changed its name to Graham Holdings Company in November 2013. Graham Holdings Company was founded in 1877 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Graham Holdings Company is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 3.827% of Graham Holdings Company shares are held by insiders and 83.71% by institutions.

• How many people work for Graham Holdings Company?

  Latest data suggests 12,053 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