Rite Aid loss, forecast worse than expected
Rite Aid Corp
The loss narrowed to $208.4 million, or 24 cents per shares, in the fourth quarter ended on February 27 from $2.29 billion, or $2.67 per share, a year earlier.
Analysts on average had forecast a loss of 19 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Sales fell 3.6 percent to $6.46 billion.
Rite Aid forecast a fiscal 2011 loss per share of between 41 cents and 65 cents, while analysts expect a loss of 36 cents.
(Reporting by Phil Wahba; additional reporting by Jessica Wohl; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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