COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Components of Total Comprehensive Income

The following table sets forth the components of total comprehensive income for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011:


In thousands
	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2012		2011			2012		2011
Net income	$	65,746	$	59,744		$	199,433	$	172,220

Other comprehensive income/ (loss):
Currency translation adjustments		16,332		(35,634	)		4,437		(17,841	)
Amortization of treasury lock into income, net of tax $162		85		85			256		256
Change in fair value of cash flow hedge, net of tax $193		289		0			289		0

Other comprehensive income/ (loss)		16,706		(35,549	)		4,982		(17,585	)


Comprehensive income		82,452		24,195			204,415		154,635
Less: comprehensive income/ (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests		841		(2,469	)		2,106		173

Comprehensive income attributable to Stericycle, Inc.	$	81,611	$	26,664		$	202,309	$	154,462

- 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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