Airgas (ARG)
Airgas Beneish M-Score
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ARG Beneish M-Score Range, Past 5 Years
| Minimum | -2.866 | Mar 2010 |
| Maximum | -0.9338 | Mar 2011 |
| Average | -2.361 |
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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ARG News
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May 14, 2:23AM Benzinga
May 14, 2:23AM Benzinga
Airgas $ARG continues to be a great mid-cap. Number 63 out of 2,800 stocks.
about 17 days ago by billgunderson
about 17 days ago by billgunderson
My watchlist for this week: http://stks.co/3hl6 In case the market firms up, these stocks should do great: $ARG $BYI $DG $RAX $SPR $TDG
about 20 days ago by Global_Trader
about 20 days ago by Global_Trader
Another great looking stock. Great RS & Accumulation here. $ARG http://chart.ly/uxt5f96
about 20 days ago by Global_Trader
about 20 days ago by Global_Trader
Airgas Gives Shareholders Another Big Raise: http://stks.co/3ea5 $ARG
about 24 days ago by DynamicDividend
about 24 days ago by DynamicDividend
Listen to $ARG Q4 2012 earnings call - live at 10:00 AM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/3eFA
about 24 days ago by earningscast
about 24 days ago by earningscast
Airgas, Inc. (ARG) Raises Quarterly Dividend 25% to $0.40; Yields 1.8%
May 03, 8:52AM Street Insider
May 03, 8:52AM Street Insider
Good setup + 3 Quarters of Accelerating EPS. Trying to break out. Earnings out May 3rd. $ARG http://chart.ly/gad8hhd
about 30 days ago by Global_Trader
about 30 days ago by Global_Trader
$GWW stocks in this industry grp also not looking great $MSM $ARG man what a change from the past few months interesting
about 33 days ago by ajb_2010
about 33 days ago by ajb_2010
A Forward Look, the Year Ahead - Featured Research on Airgas, Inc. and Anixter International Inc.
Apr 24, 9:00AM Marketwire
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Airgas Acquires Nordan Smith Operating in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama
Mar 30, 2:30PM Business Wire
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