date:Aug 30, 2013
28 cents a share, a year earlier. Sales rose 13% to $354.8 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters most recently projected earnings of 32 cents a share and revenue of $357 million. Same-store sales improved 3.4%, the result of a 1.6% rise in average transaction size and a 1.8% increase in the number of transactions. Gross margin widened slightly to 34.2% from 34.1%.
The year-ago quarter included $1.1 million of transaction costs related to a public stock offering and legal-settlement payme