U.S. Companies Reporting Negative EPS Surprises, Feb. 17

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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CEG*    CONSTELLAT ENER      0.05   0.42   -88.1   0.67   -92.5  -0.27   -0.74
KSWS    K-SWISS INC-A       -0.71  -0.58   -22.4  -0.42   -69.0  -0.40  -10.67
HMSY    HMS HOLDINGS COR     0.13   0.14    -7.1   0.15   -13.3  -0.55   -1.64
PPC     PILGRIM’S PRIDE     -0.32   0.27      NM  -0.30    -6.7   0.17    3.08
ZINC    HORSEHEAD HOLING    -0.10   0.15      NM   0.00      na   0.41    3.79

* - 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