U.S. Companies Reporting Negative EPS Surprises, Feb. 10

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          PRICE   PRICE
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11   % CHG    CHG   % CHG
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BELFA   BEL FUSE INC-A       0.02   0.56   -96.4   0.07   -71.4   0.00    0.00
AB#     ALLIANCEBERNSTEI     0.07   0.40   -82.5   0.19   -63.2  -2.16  -13.08
CBB#    CINCINNATI BELL      0.03   0.03     0.0   0.06   -50.0   0.17    4.62
SYMX#   SYNTHESIS ENERGY    -0.10  -0.07   -42.9  -0.07   -42.9  -0.15   -9.68
APO#    APOLLO GLOBAL        0.80     na      na   1.39   -42.4  -0.94   -6.13
GLCH#   GLEACHER & CO IN     0.02  -0.10      NM   0.03   -33.3   0.06    3.57
XIDE#   EXIDE TECH           0.18   0.33   -45.5   0.25   -28.0  -0.96  -24.06
BPL#    BUCKEYE PARTNERS     0.64   0.66    -3.0   0.84   -23.8   0.00    0.00
LNCE#   SNYDERS-LANCE        0.20   0.23   -13.0   0.26   -23.1  -0.91   -3.98
TICKER                                             EST          PRICE   PRICE
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11   % CHG    CHG   % CHG
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FLO#    FLOWERS FOODS        0.17   0.23   -26.1   0.21   -19.0  -0.70   -3.57
SPR     SPIRIT AEROSYS-A     0.42   0.44    -4.5   0.51   -17.6   0.27    1.12
SEE*    SEALED AIR CORP      0.42   0.46    -8.7   0.49   -14.3  -0.68   -3.28
LNT#    ALLIANT ENERGY       0.51   0.43    18.6   0.56    -8.9  -0.28   -0.65
NPO     ENPRO INDUSTRIES     0.37   0.30    23.3   0.39    -5.1  -0.17   -0.46
ATR#    APTARGROUP INC       0.57   0.59    -3.4   0.60    -5.0  -0.72   -1.34
ANH#    ANWORTH MORTGAGE     0.20   0.21    -4.8   0.21    -4.8  -0.10   -1.52
CARB#   CARBONITE INC       -0.23     na      na  -0.22    -4.5  -0.43   -4.13
LGF#    LIONS GATE           0.00  -0.04      NM   0.11      NM   0.83    7.54
CPN#    CALPINE CORP        -0.09   0.10      NM   0.04      NM   0.68    4.42

* - 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