Midmorning Negative EPS Surprises for U.S. Companies, March 12

The following U.S. companies reported negative earnings surprises today. This list ranks percent surprises of actual earnings to earnings estimates.

Earnings estimates provided by Bloomberg.

TICKER                                             EST
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11  % CHG   Q/E
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NYMT    NEW YORK MTGE        0.10   0.11    -9.1   0.35   -71.4   Dec
UEC     URANIUM ENERGY      -0.09  -0.10    10.0  -0.06   -50.0   Jan
FGP     FERRELLGAS-LP        0.47   0.82   -42.7   0.79   -40.5   Jan
NVLT    NOVELOS THERAPEU    -0.07     na      na  -0.05   -40.0   Dec
RDEA    ARDEA BIOSCIENCE    -1.15  -0.03 -3733.3  -0.90   -27.8   Dec
HALO    HALOZYME THERAPE    -0.18  -0.17    -5.9  -0.15   -20.0   Dec
LMIA    LMI AEROSPACE        0.35   0.26    34.6   0.41   -14.6   Dec
NNBR    NN INC               0.21   0.30   -30.0   0.24   -12.5   Dec
PNY     PIEDMONT NAT GAS     1.05   1.16    -9.5   1.19   -11.8   Jan
TICKER                                             EST
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11  % CHG   Q/E
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AWR     AMER STATES WATE     0.35   0.37    -5.4   0.37    -5.4   Dec
CMLS    CUMULUS MEDIA-A     -0.13     na      na   0.04      NM   Dec

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

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