Its shares fell more than 3 percent in premarket trading.
Family Dollar Stores Inc. earned $102.2 million, or 88 cents per share, for the period ended Aug. 31. That compares with $80.9 million, or 69 cents per share, in the prior-year period.
Excluding an accounting adjustment, earnings were 86 cents per share. This beat the 83 cents per share that analysts polled by FactSet expected.
Revenue for the Matthews, N.C.-based company rose 6 percent to $2.5 billion from $2.36 billion. Sales of consumables climbed 8.3 percent, helped by higher sales of refrigerated and frozen food, health aids and tobacco.
Wall Street forecast $2.56 billion in revenue.
Family Dollar operates stores throughout southwestern Ohio.
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