S&P 500 Earnings Leaderboard: Biggest Surprises Season to Date

As of earlier today, over 70% of the S&P 500 companies have reported earnings.

Here's how things stand so far:

• Companies Exceeding EPS Estimates: 76%
• Companies Matching EPS Estimates: 7%
• Companies Falling Below EPS Estimates: 17%

Keycorp has had the biggest percent surprise to the upside followed by Lennar . In absolute dollars, Bank of America leads with a surprise of over $1.1 billion, followed by Microsoft's $606 million and Apple's $512 million surprises.

Earnings - Best Performers (As of Feb. 9)

Company	Symbol	Sector	Date	EPS Est.	Actual	%Chg
Lennar	LEN	CnDisc	1/11/2011	0.03	0.17	467%
SunTrust Banks	STI	Financials	1/21/2011	0.07	0.23	229%
Keycorp	KEY	Financials	1/25/2011	0.13	0.32	146%
Humana	HUM	Health	2/7/2011	0.81	1.65	104%
Monsanto	MON	Materials	1/6/2011	0.01	0.02	100%

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On the downside, Genworth Financial leads the losers, reporting an -76% miss. In absolute dollars, Chevron leads with its $563 million negative surprise.

Earnings - Biggest Losers (as of Feb. 9)

Company	Symbol	Sector	Rpt Date	EPS Est.	Actual	%Chg
MEMC Electronic	WFR	Tech	2/1/2011	0.33	0.05	-85%
Bank of America	BAC	Financials	1/21/2011	0.14	0.04	-71%
Citigroup	C	Financials	1/18/2011	0.08	0.04	-50%
Allegheny Tech.	ATI	Materials	1/26/2011	0.30	0.15	-50%
Micron Tech.	MU	Tech	12/22/2010	0.28	0.15	-46%

Thomson Reuters

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