Vitamin Shoppe Q4 Profit Rises - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Vitamin Shoppe Inc. (VSI), a multi-channel specialty retailer of nutritional products, posted higher fourth-quarter net income of $11.2 million, compared with last year's $9.68 million. Reported earnings per share in the recent quarter were $0.37, compared with $0.32 in the 2012 period.

Total net sales in the quarter increased 17.2% to $256.4 million from $218.9 million in the same period of the prior year.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report earnings of $0.37 per share and revenues of $253.32 million for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.

For full year 2014, the company expects retail store comparable sales growth of low to mid-single digits, and total comps., including e-commerce, of mid-single digits.