The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.(NASDAQ:HAIN) late
Wednesday reported an 82 percent rise in its fourth quarter income, sending its
share up nearly 20 percent to $68.
The natural and organic food's net income rose to
$23.4 million, or 50 cents per share. A year earlier it was $12.8 million, or
28 cents per share.
Revenue rose 22 percent to $350.8 million, from $286.9
million a year earlier.
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Excluding one-time items, the company earnings were 47
cents per share. Analysts had been expecting a profit of 45 cents per share on
revenue of $363.3 million.
For its full fiscal year it posted net income of $79.2
million, or $1.73 a share, up from $55 million, or $1.23 a share. Full-year
revenue rose to $1.38 billion from $1.11 billion.
It also said it expects to earn on an adjusted basis
between $2.10 and $2.20 a share in fiscal 2013, on revenue between $1.6 billion
and $1.615 billion. Analysts had been forecasting $2.08 a share on $1.615
billion in revenue.
Shares in Hain Celestial rose $6.03 to $62.94 in
after-hours trading following the release of the earnings report.
Meanwhile Big Lots, Inc.(NYSE:BIG) posted a 38 percent
fall in its second quarter net income and cut its full-year forecast, sending
its shares tumbling 23.50.
For the quarter ended July 28, the company earned
$22.1 million, or 36 cents per share, down from $35.7 million, or 50 cents per
share, in the same quarter last year.
Revenue rose 4.4 percent to $1.22 billion from $1.17
billion.
Analysts, on average, expected a profit of 42 cents
per share on $1.24 billion in revenue.
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Sales from U.S. operations rose 1.7 percent to $1.18
billion, while Canadian sales jumped to $35 million from $3.9 million a year
ago.
Big Lots said it now expects to post a 2012 profit of
$2.80 to $2.95 per share, down from its previous prediction of $3.25 to $3.45
per share.
Analysts expect a full-year profit of $3.30 per share.
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