the nasdaq is the home of the wildly popular trading stocks in the tech sector such as nvidia adobe and apple  although it’s not widely discussed in the financial media it’s also the home of a few nontech value stocks these are the types of situations that benjamin graham would have been looking at each of these can be purchased at a price below their book value the most basic of the metrics for deep value stock screening each one trades with a priceearnings ratio well below that of the stock market as a whole each pays a dividend and each shows a history of positive earnings obviously there’s more to it than just these metrics but that’s the quick version for identifying cheap equities for further research columbia banking system is one of the many regional bank stocks that got hit following the collapse of svb  has the significant drop in price created an opportunity well columbia is now trading at a 29 discount to its book value with a priceearnings ratio of 939 this year’s earnings per share show growth of 1510 eps over the past 5 years increased by 920 columbia pays investors a dividend of 646 in april raymond james upped its rating on the stock from “outperform” to “strong buy” and keefe bruyette improved its opinion of columbia from “market perform” to “outperform the daily price chart is here mercer international is a canadianbased paper and paper products business now available for purchase at 71 of book value the company trades with a priceearnings ratio of 458 a price to sales ratio of just 25 and price to free cash flow at 1198 earnings per share this year have increased by 4490 and for the past 5 years by 1920 longterm debt exceeds shareholder equity but the current ratio is a comfortable 310 mercer is paying a 342 dividend average daily volume is relatively light with 563000 shares traded the daily price chart looks like this star bulk carriers is in the marine shipping business with corporate headquarters in greece the stock trades at 6 discount to its book value with a priceearnings ratio of just 212 the price to sale ratio is 145 and price t0 free cash flow comes in at 2568 this year’s earnings per share are off by 1770 but the 5year eps record shows growth of 10660 star bulk pays a dividend of 768 in july jeffries initiated a “buy” rating of the stock with a price target of 30 the stock is actively traded with average daily volume of 105 million shares valley national bank is another of the regional banking stocks that investors dumped as bank tremors rocked the industry earlier this year based in wayne new jersey the company trades with a priceearnings ratio of 710 and at just 66 of its book value earnings per share for the most recent 12 months reported show an increase of 130 the past 5year eps growth is 1240 valley is paying a 539 dividend in june analysts at jp morgan upgraded their opinion of the stock from “neutral” to “overweight” with a price target of 10