U.S. Companies Reporting Positive EPS Surprises, Dec. 21

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

Earnings estimates provided by Bloomberg.

TICKER                                             EST          PRICE   PRICE
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11   % CHG    CHG   % CHG
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KBH     KB HOME              0.20   0.25   -20.0   0.04   400.0  -0.56   -7.24
CTAS*   CINTAS CORP          0.57   0.38    50.0   0.48    18.7   3.20   10.23
ATU     ACTUANT CORP-A       0.50   0.36    38.9   0.43    16.3   1.52    7.32
SHAW    SHAW GROUP INC       0.48   0.39    23.1   0.44     9.1   3.59   15.82
ELRC    ELECTRO RENT CO      0.25   0.30   -16.7   0.25     0.0   0.25    1.48
SHFL    SHUFFLE MASTER       0.18   0.14    28.6   0.18     0.0   1.06    9.90

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

To contact the reporter on this story: Wendy Soong in New York at at csoong@Bloomberg.net.

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