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U.S. Companies Reporting Negative EPS Surprises, Dec. 14

By Stephen Rose - Dec 14, 2011

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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PAY#    VERIFONE SYSTEMS     0.45   0.32    40.6   0.51   -11.8  -1.26   -3.01

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

To contact the reporter on this story: Stephen Rose in DC at at srose31@Bloomberg.net.

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