Prudential Financial (PRU)

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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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PRU News

PREI® Acquires Class A office tower in Atlanta
May 30, 10:00AM Business Wire
Richard Li bids for ING's Asian assets
May 29, 7:29AM Financial Times
Bottom 5 Financials by 14 period RSI: $AIZ $MS $UNM $GS $PRU (S&P 500) $JEF $UNM $RY $SFI $RGA (non S&P 500)
about 3 days ago by TheEquitiesRoom
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May 25, 3:18PM Fool
$XLF Financial Bear Flags Scenarios To Watch $PRU $MS $JPM $C $ETFC all trading below their 200DMA. http://stks.co/3wXd
about 9 days ago by tradewithpete
HIGH $CALL VOLU $ETN 398% $WY 328% $GD 232% $MET 229% $ATVI 226% $LOW 216% $ACN 195% $ABV 168% $PRU 167% $MDT 162%
about 10 days ago by livevol_pro
Bottom 5 finanicals by 14 period RSI: $SLM $C $UNM $PRU $JPM (S&P 500) $JEF $SFI $LPLA $ORI $EV (non S&P 500)
about 11 days ago by TheEquitiesRoom
Technical Internals Unravelling: 15 New Sell Signals Today! http://stks.co/3t8O $TLT $UBT $BMC $HP $GLL $TYD $MOS $PRU $SE $DE $SEE $SPY
about 14 days ago by elliottwave
[$$] New Tenant At the Table in Midtown
May 17, 10:08PM The Wall Street Journal
[$$] Bids for ING's Asian Life Insurance Due Friday
May 17, 12:34PM The Wall Street Journal
Bought $PRU 46.60 and $NEM 44.30.
about 14 days ago by mangist
$$ $SPY 3DayCharts: Good: $GOOG $HRL $TRIP $EXPE $MKC Bad: $LNC $PRU $IVZ $BK $L $STUDY
about 15 days ago by stockspot
out all $PRU for 200 loss. starting to trade like degenerate gambler. Gonna leave unless something nice pops up soon.
about 16 days ago by Rodg3r
$PRU is very friendly for intraday trendline trades
about 16 days ago by Rodg3r
long $PRU @ 49.54
about 16 days ago by Rodg3r
$SPY $SPX S&P 500’s Ten Worst May Performers - $CSCO $MS $FTR $JBL $PRU $JNPR $CTSH $ANR $WYNN $FOSL http://dcl.sr/1Au
about 16 days ago by AlecYoungSPCIQ
didn't notice til now that $PRU broke below 50. Sure was fun trading that one between 50&52 last few days.
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
out $PRU @ 50.39 for 130 profit or seomthing
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
sold 1000 $PRU @ 50.47 for 200 profit. holding other 1000
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
added some more $PRU @ 50.22
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
dammit $PRU back in , I cannot make up mind.
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
out again $PRU @ 50.14 for 116 bux. ok, done with it.
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
back in $PRU @ 50.25 tight
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
out $PRU @ 50.29 -- I was a little chasey with this one. Might finally dip under 50. maybe, maybe not. 230 loss
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
bot 1000 $PRU @ 50.53
about 17 days ago by Rodg3r
stopped out of $PRU @ 51.77 for 500 profit. Thank you for playing the buck bounce game.
about 20 days ago by Rodg3r
Long 500 $pru @ 50.75
about 20 days ago by Rodg3r
out $PRU @ 51.77 for 40 bux profit
about 21 days ago by Rodg3r
$PRU in an intraday wedge... waiting for breakup/down
about 21 days ago by Rodg3r
$PRU bot back @ 51.74
about 21 days ago by Rodg3r
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