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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MCY     MERCURY GEN CORP     0.19   0.76   -75.0   0.66   -71.2   Jun
L*      LOEWS CORP           0.47   0.58   -19.0   0.76   -38.2   Jun
LUFK    LUFKIN INDS          0.66   0.60    10.0   0.82   -19.5   Jun
DBD     DIEBOLD INC          0.49   0.44    11.4   0.59   -16.9   Jun
SBSI    SOUTHSIDE BAN IN     0.45   0.64   -29.7   0.50   -10.0   Jun
AWI     ARMSTRONG WORLD      0.71   0.70     1.4   0.78    -9.0   Jun
CFFN    CAPITOL FEDERAL      0.12   0.10    20.0   0.13    -7.7   Jun
LECO    LINCOLN ELECTRIC     0.81   0.68    19.1   0.84    -3.6   Jun
PKBK    PARKE BANCORP        0.30   0.35   -14.3   0.31    -3.2   Jun
TICKER                                             EST
SYM     COMPANY               Q12    Q11   % CHG    Q12  % CHG   Q/E
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CALM    CAL-MAINE FOODS      0.44   0.30    46.7   0.45    -2.2   May
ARW     ARROW ELECTRONIC     1.11   1.36   -18.4   1.13    -1.8   Jun

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

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