Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)

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Berkshire Hathaway Beneish M-Score: -2.661

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BRK.A Beneish M-Score Rankings

Overall 54th percentile 1694 of 3761
Sector 24th percentile 513 of 675 in Financial
Industry 76th percentile 6 of 26 in Property & Casualty Insurance

BRK.A Beneish M-Score Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum -2.661 Dec 2011
Maximum -2.258 Dec 2010
Average -2.451

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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BRK.A News

175-Year Old Paper Quits Daily Publishing
May 25, 2:40PM Investor Place
Buffett's interest in newspapers is an essentially bet on the future of local in an increasingly globalized world. $MEG $BRK.A
about 3 days ago by ivanhoff
Confirmed!! Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Wanted to buy Lehman Brothers http://stks.co/3yYj $BRK.A $BRK.B
about 4 days ago by valuewalk
$BRK-A ... Will Berkshire be a fort in the middle of the upcoming Euro storm?
about 4 days ago by herbsalad
@bman1 // $SPY try watching $BRKA $$
about 5 days ago by WorldJazz59
Warren Buffett’s Bad Bet on Newspapers
May 22, 11:37AM Investor Place
Great point. Uncle Warren (huge Dimon fan) has got to be eyeballing this, no? $BRK.A RT @ThemisSal $JPM 3.7% yield
about 7 days ago by Tropean
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May 21, 10:01AM Investor Place
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May 19, 9:13PM
Warren Buffett’s Shrewd Bet on Newspapers
May 18, 2:25PM Investor Place
Warren Buffett's #Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A to buy 63 newspapers from Media General for $142M: http://stks.co/3sh2
about 11 days ago by TMXmoney
Newspapers are still the modern day $FB to Warren Buffett. $MEG up 45% after $BRKA/$BRKB buys some Media General publications for $142M.
about 11 days ago by lamonicabuzz
Warren Buffett vs. Gold http://stks.co/3rcZ $BRK.A $BRK.B $GLD $IAU $GDX
about 12 days ago by myplaniq
Wednesday 7atSeven: prior pullbacks, the new cola wars and a new bigger iPhone. http://stks.co/3qf0 $PEP $GM $FB $BRKA $AAPL $GOOG
about 12 days ago by abnormalreturns
Warren Buffett Buys 10 Million Shares General Motors http://stks.co/3qM6 $GM $VIA $BRK.A
about 13 days ago by ycharts
Buffett takes his Chevy to the levy. And wants his MTV? $BRKA/$BRKB discloses new stakes in $GM & $VIAB. $GM up 4% after hours. $VIAB flat.
about 13 days ago by lamonicabuzz
Take heart, $JPM longs. If stock keeps falling, maybe Buffett will soon have another bathtub epiphany & buy big preferred stake. $BRKA $BAC
about 14 days ago by lamonicabuzz
If you missed it: Charlie Munger's interview on Investing, gold, $BRK.A $BRK.B & more http://stks.co/3ohH
about 14 days ago by marketfolly
Monday links: hedge, not a hedge | via @abnormalreturns http://stks.co/3oYT $ZNGA $FB $BRKA $JPM
about 14 days ago by STNet
Monday links: hedge, not a hedge. http://stks.co/3oWg via @abnormalreturns $ZNGA $FB $JPM $BRKA $GXC
about 14 days ago by StockTwits
Monday links: hedge not a hedge, the summer of the bears and television devolution. http://stks.co/3oTG $ZNGA $FB $JPM $BRKA $GXC
about 14 days ago by abnormalreturns
RT @soberlook: The market now views $BRK.A & $JPM as having the same credit risk http://stks.co/3o8C ht @hedgefundinvest
about 14 days ago by StockTwits
Talking Technicals at Harvard | via @allstarcharts http://stks.co/3nZo $AAPL $BAC $BRK.A $FB
about 16 days ago by STNet
Saturday links: a tasty heritage. http://stks.co/3nWK via @abnormalreturns $BRKA $XOM $FB
about 16 days ago by StockTwits
Saturday links: limits on short selling, psychopathic CEOs and why we are wont to brag. http://stks.co/3nVs $BRKA $XOM $FB #longreads
about 16 days ago by abnormalreturns
Anyone want to guess which stock $WPO purchased $30MM of in 1Q12? I'm thinking $BRK.A, the co's investment in $COCO didn't turn out too well
about 19 days ago by PAAResearch
Wednesday links: bird in the hand fallacy, pro forma follies and focused returns. http://stks.co/3jt3 $FB $GS $MS $CHK $IR $AOL $HLF $BRKA
about 19 days ago by abnormalreturns
Some Berkshire $BRK.a Shareholders Getting Sick of Buffett's Politics, More Vote Against Him http://stks.co/3jCc
about 20 days ago by Street_Insider
Can $AAPL just become like $BRK.A and go to $120,000?
about 20 days ago by David_Jones

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