COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Components of Total Comprehensive Income

The following table sets forth the components of total comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011:


In thousands	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2012		2011
Net income	$	65,315	$	56,586
Other comprehensive income:
Currency translation adjustments		17,427		12,991
Amortization of treasury lock into income, net of tax of $54		85		85

Other comprehensive income/ (loss)		17,512		13,076

Comprehensive income		82,827		69,662
Less: comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests		1,524		1,050
Comprehensive income attributable to Stericycle, Inc.	$	81,303	$	68,612

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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