Warm and wet weather dampened November same-store sales at many U.S. chains in a key period that includes the start of the holiday shopping season.

Following is a table of sales resuls reported by a number of retailers, along with analysts expectations:

TABLE-U.S. retailers’ same-store sales in November

Nov 30 (Reuters) - The following table lists select U.S. retail companies that have reported November sales at stores open at least a year, a key retail measure also known as same-store sales.

The table includes the range of mean estimates* given by analysts polled by Reuters, the average of those means#, and the actual change in same-store sales reported by the companies^.

All figures expressed in percentage change over the same period last year except number of estimates.

			Nov-06		Nov-06
		Analysts’	same-store	No. of	same-store
Company	Symbol	estimates*	sales(est)#	Estimates	sales (act)^
Wal-Mart##		–	–	-	0.1
Target		5 to 7	5.8	10	5.9
Costco		5 to 8	6.0	9	5
BJ’s Wholesale		1 to 3	1.6	7	0.6
TJX Cos.		2.5 to 6	4.1	7	3
Dollar General**		2 to 4	3.0	5	2.2
Family Dollar		2 to 3	2.6	5	2.5
Ross Stores		0 to 4	1.8	6	0
Kohl’s		3 to 9	5.1	11	3.7
JC Penney		2 to 8	4.0	9	1.4
Federated		4 to 8	4.8	8	8.5
Nordstrom		2 to 10	5.7	12	5.4
Saks		5 to 12	6.7	6	7.2
Dillard’s		1 to 2	0.6	7	-3
Bon-Ton Stores**		4 to -4	4.0	1	10.5
Gap		7 to -2	5.5	9	-8
Limited		6 to 11	8.2	10	12
Abercrombie		2 to 5	3.3	13	-3
Hot Topic**		9 to -3	6.1	9	4.3
Chico’s FAS^^		2 to 2	0.4	11	0.4
American Eagle		7 to 23	14.7	14	14
Aeropostale**		0 to 5	2.2	9	1
Pacific Sunwear		6 to -1	4.2	11	3.8
Ann Taylor		5 to 1	1.7	9	4.3
Gymboree		2 to 13	8.2	6	5
Bebe		7 to 13	9.8	6	5.8
Claire’s Stores		1 to 6	2.6	5	0
Children’s Place		8 to 17	11.3	6	12
Pier 1 Imports		18 to -4	12.2	5	15.3
Sharper Image		22 to -17	19.0	3	-27