Midmorning Negative EPS Surprises for U.S. Companies, Feb. 29

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               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11  % CHG   Q/E
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RRMS    ROSE ROCK MIDSTR     0.06     na      na   0.18   -66.7   Dec
LIZ     LIZ CLAIBORNE        0.10  -0.03      NM   0.14   -28.6   Dec
NTLS    NTELOS HOLDINGS      0.25   0.50   -50.0   0.32   -21.9   Dec
NOG     NORTHERN OIL AND     0.21   0.13    61.5   0.25   -16.0   Dec
SEMG    SEMGROUP CORP-A      0.17     na      na   0.20   -15.0   Dec
DRH     DIAMONDROCK HOSP     0.24   0.22     9.1   0.26    -7.7   Dec
AMRC    AMERESCO INC-A       0.18   0.17     5.9   0.19    -5.3   Dec
STWD    STARWOOD PROPERT     0.42   0.33    27.3   0.44    -4.5   Dec
JOY*    JOY GLOBAL INC       1.33   0.96    38.5   1.36    -2.2   Jan
TICKER                                             EST
SYM     COMPANY               Q11    Q10   % CHG    Q11  % CHG   Q/E
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EDGW    EDGEWATER TECH      -0.04   0.10      NM   0.02      NM   Dec
OXF     OXFORD RESOURCE     -0.21  -0.05  -320.0   0.12      NM   Dec

* - Company in Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

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