Tractor Supply: Q4 Earnings Snapshot
The Brentwood, Tennessee-based company said it had profit of 44 cents per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 45 cents per share.
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