U.S. Companies Reporting Earnings on Dec. 16

The following table lists the five U.S. companies that reported quarterly earnings today (end date of the quarter is noted in the last column). Companies are sorted alphabetically by ticker symbol.

Earnings estimates provided by Bloomberg.

TICKER                                             EST
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11   % CHG   Q/E
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AIR     AAR CORP             0.45   0.42     7.1   0.45     0.0   Nov
DRI*    DARDEN RESTAURAN     0.41   0.54   -24.1   0.41     0.0   Nov
HEI     HEICO CORP           0.50   0.37    35.1   0.42    19.0   Oct
STEI    STEWART ENTERP-A     0.09   0.09     0.0   0.09     0.0   Oct
ZQK     QUIKSILVER INC       0.06   0.12   -50.0   0.06     0.0   Oct

Total number of companies reporting earnings today:             5

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
# - Company reported in the late afternoon.

To contact the reporter on this story: Stephen Rose in DC at at srose31@Bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Alex Tanzi at at atanzi@Bloomberg.net