Alcoa (AA)

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Alcoa Beneish M-Score: -2.584

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AA Beneish M-Score Rankings

Overall	48th percentile	1948 of 3761
Sector	59th percentile	158 of 393 in Basic Materials
Industry	80th percentile	1 of 5 in Aluminum

AA Beneish M-Score Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum	-3.040	Dec 2010
Maximum	-2.245	Dec 2009
Average	-2.599

About Beneish M Score

The Beneish M Score helps to uncover companies who are likely to be manipulating their reported earnings. Companies with a higher score are more likely to be manipulators. This is a probabilistic model, so it will not detect manipulators with 100% accuracy.

The best cut-off point depends on the costs mistakenly classifying in one of two ways:

1) Classifying firm that is manipulating earnings as a non-manipulator (Type I error), and
2) Classifying a firm as a manipulator when it actually was not manipulating (Type II Error).

Here are optimal cut-offs according to Beneish, presented as the score followed by the cost of Type I error relative to cost of Type II error):

M Score HTML Table:

Score	Relative Error Costs (Type I:Type II)
M Score > -1.49	(10:1)
M Score > -1.78	(20:1)
M Score > -1.89	(40+:1)

Beneish excluded financial institutions from his sample when calculating the M-Score, so extreme care should be taken when looking at M-Scores of financial firms - their business models are different from the manufacturing and other service firms that Beneish used in his study.

If you want more details, here is the original Beneish M Score Paper, or you can learn about our calculation by clicking "Learn More" below.

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AA News

Long $AA at 8.59, stop 8.25
about a day ago by ThetaDecay

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May 24, 7:08PM Fool

Alcoa $AA support $8.50 http://chart.ly/trg9u43
about 2 days ago by agendabursatil

There are still some amazing value plays in the markets if Europe can patch it: $VALE, $MT, $AA, $FCX, $HAL, $APC, $PBR, $BHP, ...
about 2 days ago by MomentumRider

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@dann055 Bought more today. two good articles out today. $AA
about 3 days ago by Sloop

$AA looks like its building a solid base here. Co is keeping an eye on the price and promises 12 bucks soon
about 3 days ago by Sloop

$BAC $AA: Starting 2 build positions, if limit order is filled; that is if they break through the low of today.
about 3 days ago by TeraNova

$AA breaking through the lows on daily chart...not looking good: http://stks.co/3xMt
about 4 days ago by TheOxenGroupdotcom

Alcoa Showing Strong Value Now
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not the best time to act on $aa but it could break below this 8 month desc tri this wk. http://chart.ly/byn44hg
about 4 days ago by AaronJ

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Hard to believe $AA was above 16 this year, feels like its been dead money for years
about 5 days ago by WorkIs4THeWeak

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Had to buy some $HAL and $AA today
about 8 days ago by Sloop

$AA AND $HAL. JUST SIT WAITING TO BE BOUGHT
about 8 days ago by Sloop

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$AA New 52 Week Low - Crossed daily lows support.
about 8 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant

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$AA is testing the mid-term support at http://stks.co/3tM3
about 9 days ago by Filip_Adrian

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Man Im wondering if I should just dump everything and buy $aa I have no doubt this thing will double in less than a year.
about 9 days ago by frankdatrader

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@CitrusJunkie $AA At $8.50 there isn't a whole lot more I can lose
about 9 days ago by jaycee

@SilentPatriot prefer $CENX over $AA for many reasons. One being debt level in $AA is extremely large
about 9 days ago by SteveCaru

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decisions decisions. not sure which one I want to start a L position in $AA or $CENX. $AA looks safer to me
about 10 days ago by SilentPatriot

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about 10 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant

Expectations Indicator triggered a Bear Market http://stks.co/3sJR $MMM $AA $AXP $T
about 10 days ago by LouisEbner

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$AWC possible rebound from here to catch back up to big brother $AA 5% lag on 5 day chart, 13% over 1 month period.
about 10 days ago by Skyshark29

$AA is really moving today.
about 10 days ago by RamziAbdulBaki

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@jaycee i think $AA is a steal here. It likely has additional swing lower, but thats just better entry. IMHO. any other thoughts?
about 10 days ago by CitrusJunkie

@jaycee im holding out a long position ( 1+ yrs) with $AA closing locations, and autos looking for lighter material
about 10 days ago by CitrusJunkie

26 New Sell Signals Yesterday!! http://stks.co/3rqU $PEP $KR $SLB $HAL $XLE $NVDA $CSCO $JNPR $AA $X $SPLS $HRB $SPY plus more...
about 10 days ago by elliottwave

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