Standard Chartered (STAN.L)
Financials · LSE · UK
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Standard Chartered trades at £21.29, which is 111% below the £44.83 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 46 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 13.6 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides various banking products and services in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. The company operates in three segments: Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth & Retail Banking, and Ventures. It offers retail products, such as deposits, mortgages, credit cards, and personal loans; wealth management products and services that include investments, portfolio management, bancassurance, and wealth advice; and transaction banking services, such as cash management, working capital, trade financing, securities and prime services, and payments and liquidity products. The company also provides mergers and acquisitions, leveraged and acquisition finance, infrastructure and development finance, fund finance, and transportation and sustainable finance solutions. In addition, it offers international banking, private banking, priority banking, wealth solutions, financing for SMEs, and Islamic banking products. Further, the company provides financial markets products and services that comprise financing and investment ideas; risk management and investment solutions; foreign exchange, rates, credit, and structured products; capital raising solutions; and sales and structuring, as well as digital banking solutions. It serves financial institutions, governments, banks, investors, corporations, small to medium-sized businesses, and individuals. Standard Chartered PLC was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
STAN.L passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Standard Chartered (STAN.L) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of £44.83, STAN.L at £21.29 is 111% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is STAN.L's P/E ratio?
STAN.L trades at 13.6 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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