Harsco Corporation (HSC)

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Harsco Corporation Beneish M-Score: -2.83

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HSC Beneish M-Score Rankings

Overall 66th percentile 1247 of 3761
Sector 75th percentile 95 of 393 in Basic Materials
Industry 92nd percentile 2 of 28 in Steel & Iron

HSC Beneish M-Score Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum -3.074 Dec 2008
Maximum -2.537 Dec 2007
Average -2.838

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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HSC News

$HSC http://stks.co/3ukQ possible breakdown out of multi month rectangle formation http://stks.co/3ukS
about 8 days ago by TraderHR
Benzinga's Top Upgrades
May 17, 7:29AM Benzinga
News related to $HSC: 'Fitch Ratings downgrades Harsco on weak outlook' http://stks.co/3oy3
about 15 days ago by TradeBot
HARSCO CORP Financials
May 09, 1:04PM
Jefferies Lowers Price Target on Harsco (HSC)
May 03, 2:45PM Street Insider
$HSC filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/3cx2
about 27 days ago by MarketBrief
Listen to $HSC Q1 2012 earnings call - live at 10:00 AM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/3cmA
about 27 days ago by earningscast
Harsco Corp. (HSC) Tops Q1 EPS by 3c
May 02, 8:14AM Street Insider
$HSC http://stks.co/3DWm big base, thru 24 might run a few points
about 55 days ago by ZorTrades
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/3DH7
about 56 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/3C94
about 57 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/3Aq6
about 58 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/39I2
about 61 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/383V
about 62 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/36qG
about 63 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/35fg
about 64 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/347a
about 65 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/32mq
about 67 days ago by MarketBrief
$HSC Was awarded a $55 mil. dollar contract http://stks.co/2ley
about 81 days ago by buylowsellhigh3
$HSC Downside Blowoff - 15 Minute Up Reversal - Green bar after 5 red bars
about 95 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant
News related to $HSC, currently -2.6% since open: 'Harsco Chairman and CEO Fazzolari resigns' http://stks.co/2Y3m
about 95 days ago by TradeBot
$HSC Insider Buy: $111K of stock bought by Ivor Harrington (Executive Vice President &) on January 30, 2012 http://stks.co/2CdY
about 118 days ago by MarketBrief
Profit From Buying Trigger - 01/27/12 : $SLM 1.98% $OTEX 1.18% $HSC 9% $XIDE 6.3% $AMLN 3.33% $DMND 4.36% $EDU 2.19% $SFLY 4.04%
about 123 days ago by Trade4Me
$HSC Upside Blowoff - 15 Minute Down Reversal - Red bar after 5 higher highs and higher lows
about 123 days ago by TradeIdeasQuant
$HSC http://stks.co/26te Earnings out, may be moving off statements, has room to run & momentum picking up.
about 124 days ago by redman59
Listen to $HSC Q4 2011 earnings call (EPS 0.36 vs est 0.3) - live at 10:00 AM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/26ai
about 124 days ago by earningscast

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