L.B. Foster Company (FSTR)

27.66 -0.04  -0.14%  May 25, 11:00PM Go Pro
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L.B. Foster Company Beneish M-Score: -2.626

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FSTR Beneish M-Score Rankings

Overall 52nd percentile 1802 of 3761
Sector 50th percentile 391 of 782 in Services
Industry 80th percentile 1 of 5 in Basic Materials Wholesale

FSTR Beneish M-Score Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum -2.885 Dec 2009
Maximum 40.43 Dec 2010
Average 6.437

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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FSTR News

Basic Materials Sector Wrap
May 02, 4:43PM Fox Business
Listen to $FSTR Q1 2012 earnings call - live at 11:00 AM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/3bSg
about 28 days ago by earningscast
$FSTR forms bullish "Continuation Wedge" chart pattern. http://stks.co/3OBB
about 41 days ago by RecogniaEvents
Sidoti Upgrades L.B. Foster (FSTR) to Buy
Apr 10, 1:29PM Street Insider
FOSTER L B CO Financials
Mar 24, 1:04PM
Listen to $FSTR Q4 2011 earnings call - live at 01:00 PM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/2X8F
about 96 days ago by earningscast
LB Foster (FSTR) Issues Q4 Miss
Feb 23, 10:04AM Street Insider
Listen to $FSTR Q4 2011 earnings call - live at 11:00 AM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/2Ska
about 102 days ago by earningscast
L.B. Foster Company: Shareholder Friendly But Great Uncertainty ($FSTR) http://stks.co/27m3
about 123 days ago by valuewalk
L.B. Foster names new CEO
Jan 23, 7:07PM
$FSTR New CEO Robert Bauer
about 127 days ago by Benzinga
L.B. Foster (FSTR) Appoints Robert Bauer as CEO
Jan 23, 4:16PM Street Insider
L.B. Foster Announces New CEO
Jan 23, 4:15PM PR Newswire
12 mo. #s for $FSTR: rev. 38%, EBITDA 35.4%, free cash flow 33.3%, book 8.4%,, Thin name, I like the chart
about 259 days ago by gtotoy
Closing out $FSTR long at $23.5, 35% return on buy within two weeks. Revisit LB Foster stock below $20 or if in-the-market for rail ties :)
about 271 days ago by blaise9
Selling half $FSTR, very nice late day bounce
about 291 days ago by JQuereau
Buying $FSTR through the $19 level, down from $34 in 5 trading days, bounce time
about 294 days ago by JQuereau
bot $CVE at 36.50; bot $E at 39.00; bot $FSTR at 33.20; bot $GEO at 20.40; bot $GLDD at 4.97; bot $GLW at 15.39;
about 297 days ago by txbondman
$FSTR L.B. Foster to Resume Trading at 8:30am
about 299 days ago by Benzinga
Foster $FSTR Reports Mixed Q2 Results: EPS 61c, vs. cons. 67c, sales $173.7M, vs. cons. $147M; Receives 'Significant Customer Product Claim'
about 299 days ago by Street_Insider
$FSTR LB Foster Reports Q2 EPS $0.61 vs $0.67 Est; Revenues $173.7M vs $147.25M Est
about 299 days ago by Benzinga
LB Foster $FSTR halted with news pending
about 299 days ago by Street_Insider
sld $FSTR for a 15% gain; sld $POWL for a 20% gain; sld $SOHU for a 20% gain;
about 302 days ago by txbondman
bot $FSTR at 32.39;
about 354 days ago by txbondman
Today's Dividend-Paying Winners and Losers: http://goo.gl/q1url / $NSP $IP $CTIB $OZRK / $GG $SHEN $SLW $FSTR
about 393 days ago by DynamicDividend
$FSTR reports Q1 GAAP EPS of 7c on sales of $117.1M; trading currently halted
about 393 days ago by Street_Insider
sld $FSTR for a 40% gain; sld $AMX for a 25% gain; sld $BCO at breakeven
about 487 days ago by txbondman
Long trade ideas I am looking at $ADTN, $AIXG, $BSFT, $CKH, $EBAY, $EMN, $FSTR, $GTI, $HS, $KLIC, $MDSO, $NVLS, $SM, $STLD, $X.
about 488 days ago by hertcapital
L.B. Foster Completes Tender Offer for Portec Rail Products, Inc. and Commences Subsequent Offering Period $PRPX $FSTR http://yhoo.it/eXxdtE
about 530 days ago by annveena
$FSTR - Noted LB Foster 10 Days Back, Bull Flag Played Out for 13% Already
about 536 days ago by OptionRadar
$HES an example of a series of bull flags - many more out there, highlighted thinly traded $FSTR past weekend
about 544 days ago by OptionRadar
I am a fan of LB Foster $FSTR on a Technical and Fundamental Basis
about 547 days ago by OptionRadar

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