** Shares of dental and medical products distributor Henry Schein rise 2.9% to $70.54
** Co posts Q1 adj EPS of $1.10 vs Wall Street estimates of $1.01 - LSEG
** Q1 profit benefited from higher gross margins, co says
** There were concerns heading into the earnings that "HSIC's customer loss from their October/November cyber events may be stuck in the 5%-10% range" - brokerage Baird
** "It sounds like customer retention is closer to 96%-97%, which puts some of those concerns of permanent loss to bed" - Baird
** However, co's Q1 rev of $3.17 bln misses analysts' avg estimate of $3.21 bln
** YTD, stock down 6.8%
(Reporting by Puyaan Singh)
((Puyaan.Singh@thomsonreuters.com;))
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