Monro Muffler Brake Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Feb 09, 2013
Monro Muffler Brake Inc. (MNRO, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-12-29.

Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. has a market cap of $1.16 billion; its shares were traded at around $37.14 with a P/E ratio of 26.738 and P/S ratio of 1.6981. The dividend yield of Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. stocks is 0.78%. Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 11.7% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. the business predictability rank of 5-star.

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Sales were $190.4 million for the quarter ended December 29, 2012 as compared with $176.7 million in the quarter ended December 24, 2011. The sales increase of $13.7 million or 7.8%, was due to an increase of $23 million related to new stores. Partially offsetting this was a comparable store sales decrease of 5.9% and a decrease in sales from closed stores amounting to $1.6 million. There were 89 selling days in the quarter ended December 29, 2012 as compared to 90 in the quarter ended December 24, 2011. Adjusting for days, comparable store sales decreased 4.9%.

Sales were $536.1 million for the nine months ended December 29, 2012 as compared with $514.8 million in the nine months ended December 24, 2011. The sales increase of $21.3 million or 4.1%, was due to an increase of $56.1 million related to new stores. This was partially offset by a decrease in comparable store sales of 5.9% and a decrease in sales from closed stores amounting to $5.3 million. There were 270 selling days in the first nine months of fiscal 2013 and 271 days in the first nine months of fiscal 2012. Adjusting for days, comparable store sales decreased 5.6%.

For the nine months ended December 29, 2012, operating expenses increased by $13.4 million to $149.3 million from the comparable period of the prior year and were 27.9% of sales as compared to 26.4%. Accounting for the bulk of the increase were the aforementioned $1.7 million fiscal 2012 gain, $10.0 million of operating expenses related to the fiscal 2013 acquired stores and $1.5 million of due diligence costs, all totaling $13.2 million.

Operating income for the quarter ended December 29, 2012 of approximately $18.8 million decreased by 16.8% as compared to operating income of approximately $22.6 million for the quarter ended December 24, 2011, and decreased as a percentage of sales from 12.8% to 9.9%.

Operating income for the nine months ended December 29, 2012 of approximately $58.2 million decreased by 21.3% as compared to operating income of approximately $74.0 million for the nine months ended December 24, 2011, and decreased as a percentage of sales from 14.4% for the nine months ended December 24, 2011 to 10.9% for the nine months ended December 29, 2012.

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