The following U.S. companies reported positive surprises or matched expectations today. This list ranks percent surprises of actual earnings to earnings estimates.

Earnings estimates provided by Bloomberg.

TICKER                                             EST
SYM     COMPANY               Q12    Q11   % CHG    Q12   % CHG   Q/E
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MOV     MOVADO GROUP         0.24   0.05   380.0   0.10   140.0   Jan
BBY*    BEST BUY CO INC      2.47   1.98    24.7   2.15    14.9   Feb
WOR     WORTHINGTON INDS     0.38   0.35     8.6   0.35     8.6   Feb
MNOV    MEDICINOVA INC      -0.22  -0.40    45.0  -0.24     8.3   Dec
SHAW    SHAW GROUP INC       0.46   0.24    91.7   0.45     2.2   Feb
DSCO    DISCOVERY LABS      -0.18  -0.42    57.1  -0.18     0.0   Dec

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

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