U.S. Companies Reporting Positive EPS Surprises, June 28

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               Q12    Q11   % CHG    Q12   % CHG    CHG   % CHG
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MEI     METHODE ELEC         0.15   0.22   -31.8   0.07   114.3   0.59    7.46
SCHN    SCHNITZER STEEL      0.40   1.17   -65.8   0.25    60.0   1.43    5.75
SWHC#   SMITH & WESSON H     0.27   0.15    80.0   0.17    58.8  -0.15   -2.13
FLOW    FLOW INTL CORP       0.06   0.01   500.0   0.04    50.0   0.23    7.90
WOR     WORTHINGTON INDS     0.75   0.70     7.1   0.52    44.2   1.56    8.85
AM      AMER GREETINGS-A     0.86   0.81     6.2   0.69    24.6   0.48    3.37
TIBX#   TIBCO SOFTWARE       0.26   0.21    23.8   0.23    13.0  -0.21   -0.78
OMN     OMNOVA SOLUTIONS     0.16   0.16     0.0   0.15     6.7  -0.33   -4.30
GBX     GREENBRIER COS       0.61   0.10   510.0   0.61     0.0   0.22    1.37

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

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