Home Retail Group plc (HOME.L, HMRLF.PK) reported higher pre-tax profit of 130.1 million pounds for the full year, compared with last year's 104.1 million pounds, while benchmark pre-tax profit dropped 10% to 91.1 million pounds, from 115.7 million pounds a year back.
Benchmark earnings per share were 7.6 pence this year, down compared with the prior-year figure of 10.0 pence, whereas reported per-share earnings rose to 11.6 pence, from 9.1 pence a year ago.
For the fiscal year, profit after tax totaled 94.0 million pounds, an increase from the prior year's 72.8 million pounds. On the other hand, benchmark profit after tax fell year-over-year to 61.4 million pounds, from 80.2 million pounds.
Sales for the 52 weeks reached 5.475 billion pounds, versus 5.58 billion pounds in the comparable period in 2012.
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