{"id":29273,"date":"2012-06-03T02:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T06:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29273"},"modified":"2012-06-03T02:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T06:53:04","slug":"shares-of-vera-bradley-down-on-positive-earnings-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/06\/03\/shares-of-vera-bradley-down-on-positive-earnings-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Shares of Vera Bradley Down on Positive Earnings Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v8d1a04f120a2912e28526e83dce9971b4e34508b&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v8d1a04f120a2912e28526e83dce9971b4e34508b&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite being up in premarket trading, shares of Vera Bradley (NYSE:VRA) are trading lower after the firm reported its fiscal Q1 earnings beat estimates and it reaffirmed its guidance of FY 2012. The company reported first quarter EPS of $0.31, beating estimates of $0.29 per share. Revenue for the quarter rose 15.6% to $117.2 million, again above estimates of $116.86 million.Vera Bradley said it was able to offset higher cotton prices and labor costs during the period by boosting sales 34% year-over-year at its own locations and 26% at its online segment.The company&#8217;s shares are falling in early trading, down almost 7% to $20.29.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/06\/03\/1_njxjoh3v_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/06\/03\/1_njxjoh3v_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being up in premarket trading, shares of Vera Bradley (NYSE:VRA) are trading lower after the firm reported its fiscal Q1 earnings beat estimates and it reaffirmed its guidance of FY 2012. The company reported first quarter EPS of $0.31, beating estimates of $0.29 per share. Revenue for the quarter rose 15.6% to $117.2 million, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/06\/03\/shares-of-vera-bradley-down-on-positive-earnings-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shares of Vera Bradley Down on Positive Earnings Results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}