Green Mountain Coffee Beats Estimates, But Mixed Guidance (GMCR)

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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has some mixed earnings results after going through the figures.  The battered stock and growth coffee outfit reported earnings of $0.60 EPS versus $0.36 EPS estimates from Thomson Reuters.  Sales were about $1.16 billion against estimates of $1.06 billion.  The company’s first-quarter profit rose and K-Cup portion pack sales grew by more than 100%. 

As for guidance, Green Mountain gave adjusted earnings guidance of $0.60 to $0.65 EPS and it sees sales growth of about 45% to 50%.  The growth sounds good, but the projection is $0.73 from Thomson Reuters.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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