The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (NYSE:MHP), a publisher and provider of financial information and media services, recently posted strong first-quarter 2012 results. The quarterly earnings of 51 cents a share came ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 49 cents, and jumped 30% from the prior-year quarter’s earnings of 39 cents.
However, including one time items, earnings increased 11% year over year to 43 cents a share.
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