Midmorning Positive EPS Surprises for U.S. Companies, June 5

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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UNFI    UNITED NATURAL       0.59   0.48    22.9   0.56     5.4   Apr
DG      DOLLAR GENERAL C     0.63   0.48    31.3   0.60     5.0   Apr
SHFL    SHUFFLE MASTER       0.20   0.14    42.9   0.20     0.0   Apr
GIII    G III APPAREL       -0.04  -0.03   -33.3  -0.04     0.0   Apr

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

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