U.S. Companies Reporting Positive EPS Surprises, April 12

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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MTOX    MEDTOX SCIENTIFI     0.17   0.09    88.9   0.13    30.8   0.45    2.52
CBSH#   COMMERCE BCSHS       0.74   0.66    12.1   0.67    10.4   0.90    2.30
WAFD    WASH FED             0.33   0.18    83.3   0.30    10.0   0.31    1.87
JBHT#   HUNT (JB) TRANS      0.57   0.40    42.5   0.52     9.6   1.34    2.46
GOOG*#  GOOGLE INC-CL A     10.08   8.08    24.8   9.64     4.6  15.05    2.37
FAST*   FASTENAL CO          0.34   0.27    25.9   0.34     0.0  -0.76   -1.53

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

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