11.   Companies have beaten Clinton to the punch.

12.   Each day the company beats these standards, money is put in a bonus pool for all employees.

13.   Intel Corp. reported Tuesday that sales dropped sharply from the same quarter a year ago, but the company slightly beat its lowered earnings forecasts.

14.   Investors snatched up the shares betting that local companies would beat long-distance companies in expanding their services.

15.   Lilly also feared rival drug companies were beating it in the race for the few pharmacy benefit managers that dominated the market.

16.   Lockheed Martin executives have not said where the Joint Strike Fighter would be built if the company beats Boeing.

17.   Monsanto Co. and Xerox Corp. shares fell after the companies beat earnings forecasts.

18.   Newly listed companies often beat the companies that were listed when the exchanges were established.

19.   Not all companies are beating their estimates, though.

20.   Not all companies are beating Wall Street forecasts.