Monsanto Company does not satisfy the requirements of either the Enterprising Investor or the more conservative Defensive Investor. The Defensive Investor is concerned with the low current ratio, insufficient earnings growth over the last ten years, and the high PEmg and PB ratios.
I’ve selected the five undervalued companies reviewed by ModernGraham trading closest to their 52 week low. Each of these companies has been determined to be suitable for the Defensive Investor according to the ModernGraham approach.
We evaluated 29 different companies this week to determine whether they are suitable for Defensive Investors, those unwilling to do substantial research, or Enterprising Investors, those who are willing to do such research. We also put each company through the ModernGraham valuation model based on Benjamin Graham’s value investing formulas in order to determine an intrinsic value for each. Out of those 29 companies, only 15 were found to be undervalued or fairly valued and suitable for either Defensive or Enterprising Investors.
Monsanto Company qualifies for both the Defensive Investor and the Enterprising Investor. The Defensive Investor is only concerned with the high PB ratio while the Enterprising Investor’s only concern is the level of debt relative to the net current assets.
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Monsanto is suitable for the Enterprising Investor but not the Defensive Investor due to the low current ratio, and high PEmg and PB ratios. The company passes every requirement of the Enterprising Investor, though, and should remain on the investor type’s watch list.
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