Ellsworth Fund (ECF)
Ellsworth Fund Beneish M-Score
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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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ECF News
Ellsworth Fund (ECF) Declares 103rd Quarterly Dividend at 6.25c; Yields 3.5%
Apr 16, 3:55PM Street Insider
Apr 16, 3:55PM Street Insider
Ellsworth Fund Ltd. (ECF) Raises Quarterly Dividend 2.5% to $0.0625; 3.6% Yield
Jan 13, 2:40PM Street Insider
Jan 13, 2:40PM Street Insider
Ellsworth Fund: Closed-End Convertible Bond Fund Worth Purchasing At A Discount
Dec 18, 1:17PM Seeking Alpha
Dec 18, 1:17PM Seeking Alpha
$ECF filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/1Kp6
about 180 days ago by MarketBrief
about 180 days ago by MarketBrief
$ECF filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/1K4F
about 181 days ago by MarketBrief
about 181 days ago by MarketBrief
Ellsworth Fund Ltd. Announces Issue Price for the 2011 Year-End Dividend Payable on November 23, 2011
Nov 17, 2:27PM Marketwire
Nov 17, 2:27PM Marketwire
Ellsworth Fund Ltd. Declares Year-End Distribution of Investment Income and Annual Meeting Date
Oct 17, 1:54PM Marketwire
Oct 17, 1:54PM Marketwire
Recent Quotes
| Symbol | Price | Chg | Chg % | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECF | 6.88 | -0.01 | -0.13% | |
| ECA | 20.50 | +0.24 | +1.18% | 15.08B |
| EC | 57.73 | +0.42 | +0.73% | 118.68B |
| EBTX | 20.51 | +0.03 | +0.15% | 243.25M |
| DTV | 46.40 | +0.03 | +0.06% | 31.39B |
| DTSI | 28.07 | +0.30 | +1.08% | 464.56M |
| DTLK | 10.04 | +0.33 | +3.40% | 179.72M |
| DTH | 34.30 | -0.08 | -0.23% | |
| DTG | 80.37 | +3.20 | +4.15% | 2.262B |
| DTE | 56.56 | +0.11 | +0.19% | 9.618B |
