Activision Blizzard (ATVI)

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Activision Blizzard Beneish M-Score: -2.516

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ATVI Beneish M-Score Rankings

Overall 42nd percentile 2165 of 3761
Sector 45th percentile 429 of 781 in Technology
Industry 33rd percentile 12 of 18 in Multimedia & Graphics Software

ATVI Beneish M-Score Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum -3.069 Dec 2009
Maximum 1.931 Dec 2008
Average -1.545

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:

ScoreRelative 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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ATVI News

Oops... E3 (Jun 5-7) exhibitors: $ATVI $CSCO $DIS $EA $MSFT $SNE $PWRD $EQIX $KNM $COOL $NVDA $QCOM $ZNGA - and $THQI http://stks.co/3zt0
about a day ago by abubnic
E3 (Jun 5-7) exhibitors: $ATVI $CSCO $DIS $EA $MSFT $SNE $PWRD $EQIX $KNM $COOL $NVDA $QCOM $ZNGA - and $THQ http://stks.co/3zsz
about a day ago by abubnic
$EA $ATVI $THQi --this news upsets me to absolutely no end: http://stks.co/3zkV If Big Huge Games had an IPO this would not have happened.
about 2 days ago by shark_filet
I spent many yrs attending E3 as a member of broadcast/print media. Major buying decisions made here $ATVI $CSCO $DIS $EA $MSFT $SNE $PWRD
about 2 days ago by abubnic
$ATVI There is mobile auction house for WoW, perhaps it will come to diablo, couples nicely with real money Auction house.
about 4 days ago by gizmo727
@eh791114 http://stks.co/3xSD $ATVI They may actually sell a few more authenticators...
about 4 days ago by Skyshark29
@PositiveCarry Diablo 3 Sells 6.3M, PC Record. $ATVI
about 4 days ago by emana
$ATVI buying 12 and selling 13 still working like a dream...
about 4 days ago by Wisedom
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about 4 days ago by rocketship
$ATVI 200 Day SMA Cross - Price crossed above 200 day SMA (12.2444). Confirmed by volume.
about 4 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant
RT @Benzinga $ATVI Diablo 3 Sells 6.3M, PC Record
about 4 days ago by StockSage1
$ATVI Diablo 3 Sells 6.3M, PC Record
about 4 days ago by Benzinga
@PositiveCarry you didn't buy it? http://stks.co/3wfY (ups who lied?) $ATVI
about 5 days ago by emana
Diablo 3 took 4 years to make...it flop big time, check amazon reviews of more than 1100 reviews of real buyers. $ATVI is going lower.
about 5 days ago by PositiveCarry
@PositiveCarry everyone can check server status. everyone can check amazon reviews. you paid for the game, 1 in millions :) $ATVI
about 5 days ago by emana
RT @emana @eh791114 i just made login and everything is working fine... $ATVI >> lol why lied?
about 5 days ago by PositiveCarry
@emana Diablo3 sux...just admit it. Look at amazon reviews. $ATVI will print single digit soon.
about 5 days ago by PositiveCarry
@eh791114 i just made login and everything is working fine... $ATVI
about 5 days ago by emana
$ATVI servers are closed for 8 hours due to some account thefts and bugs. Expect more bad news to come out and drive down the stock.
about 5 days ago by eh791114
@PositiveCarry you bought the game and you keep playing it... i guess that's all. $ATVI
about 5 days ago by emana
@eh791114 I complained about lagy blizzard's server, and how you can't play it without connecting with it. diablo 3 is big time FLOP. $ATVI
about 5 days ago by PositiveCarry
@eh791114 yesterday i have played with a asian player... i guess they are using the new server transition mode. $ATVI
about 5 days ago by emana
$ATVI Asian Servers are still really cramped and people still have troubles buying the game. ATVI should move big when sales numbers are out
about 5 days ago by eh791114
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