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               Q12    Q11   % CHG    Q12  % CHG   Q/E
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CMC     COMMERCIAL METAL     0.34   0.32     6.3   0.37    -8.1   May
MKC*    MCCORMICK-N/V        0.60   0.55     9.1   0.61    -1.6   May

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

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