Mercury General Corporation (MCY)

43.70 +0.03  +0.07%  May 29, 8:00PM Go Pro
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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:

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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MCY News

12 Dividend Champions With Lowest Debt + http://stks.co/40YB + $MCY $CVX $ADP $XOM $TROW $LANC$HRL $GRC $TR $RAVN $CLC $HP
about a day ago by DividendYield
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about 23 days ago by scottsinvestments
$MCY filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/3dKu
about 28 days ago by MarketBrief
High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio for May http://stks.co/3FNN $abt $ctbi $ctwx $ed $JNJ $mcy $mgee $pep $rpm $son $str $syy $tmp $uvv
about 54 days ago by scottsinvestments
$MCY filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/3Bhy
about 58 days ago by MarketBrief
20 Best Yielding Dividend Champions + http://stks.co/3ABz + $PBI $ORI $WRE $T $MCY $MO $HCP $LEG $CINF $UVV $ED $KMB $WGL $NWN $MSEX $CTBI
about 60 days ago by DividendYield
Listen to $MCY Q4 2011 earnings call (EPS 0.59 vs est 0.67) - live at 01:00 PM, ondemand after - http://stks.co/2GXR
about 114 days ago by earningscast
Stocks trading ex-dividend in one week: http://stks.co/1P19 / Raised payouts from $MRK $ALB $HOT $MCC $MCY $NEU $NJR $NMFC $WHG and more
about 176 days ago by DynamicDividend
Double-Digit Returns In A Flat Market
Dec 02, 2:47PM Seeking Alpha
November High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio, up 18%+ http://stks.co/zhd $t $ed $ctbi $tmp $mcy $syy $ubsi $son $rpm $jnj $mgee $bkh
about 205 days ago by scottsinvestments
$MCY filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/w2d
about 210 days ago by MarketBrief
Mercury's Dividend Growth Streak Reaches 25 Years: http://stks.co/sox / $MCY yields 5.52%
about 212 days ago by DynamicDividend
$MCY Mercury General Corp Reports Q3 EPS $0.72 vs $0.67 Est; Revenues $615.7M vs $680.53M Est
about 212 days ago by Benzinga
Ex-Dividend Stocks for Tuesday, June 14: http://goo.gl/8CVZ8 / $AGU $FCAP $HD $HES $HI $HRC $MCY $NEM $NX $NYX $POL $SNV $TICC $TSH $TSS ...
about 358 days ago by DynamicDividend
Stocks close to their 52 week LOW http://stk.ly/kjm5SK AKAM $LXK $TGT $GHL $FRO $HCBK $CPB $THG $CLWR $OFC $CREE $SYY $CSCO $MCY $ANAT $$
about 394 days ago by mudaser
Stocks close to their 52 week LOW http://stk.ly/fhKwwJ $AMR $CPB $THG $CREE $DAL $FRO $HCBK $CSCO $MCY $TGT $GHL $CLGX $ANAT $ANAT $ETR $$
about 401 days ago by mudaser
Stocks close to their 52 week LOW http://stk.ly/htDkP7 $CSCO $FRO $DLB $AMR $HCBK $CREE $BBY $ETR $DAL $CPB $ANAT $DWA $TGT $GHL $MCY $$
about 408 days ago by mudaser
Ex-Dividend Stocks for Monday, March 14: http://goo.gl/XvhcW / $HPQ $MCY $NWS $NWSA $UHT
about 450 days ago by DynamicDividend
$mcy lows 40 break was the key
about 461 days ago by danshep55
$mcy took out yest lows . lets see if it can get hit
about 461 days ago by danshep55
$mcy started short 39.99 risking .22 to make 2bucks.
about 462 days ago by danshep55
$MCY http://chart.ly/my9p2n3 big non-gap drop, now flagging a bit and I think setting up for another drop, looking 2 short.
about 474 days ago by akoptiontrader
NYSE midday losers: $CPE $VLY/WS $MCY $WHX $SYY $MXT $FBS.A $XNY $RLD $GCAP
about 478 days ago by longshorts
Notable earning to watch on monday: $HAS (Hasbro) $LOW (Lowe's) $HUM (Humana) $MCY (Mercury General )
about 478 days ago by BehemothTrader
On a side note, notable earning to watch on monday: $HAS (Hasbro) $LOW (Lowe's) $HUM (Humana) $MCY (Mercury General )
about 478 days ago by BehemothTrader

Recent Quotes

Symbol Price Chg Chg % Market Cap
MCY 43.70 +0.03 +0.07% 2.397B
MCS 13.88 +0.20 +1.46% 400.14M
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MBL 14.32 +0.00 +0.00%
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