Austin, TX 3/8/12 (StreetBeat) – Teen apparel retailer Hot Topic Inc (Nasdaq:HOTT) reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by higher gross margins, and forecast a profit for the current quarter, sending its shares up 4 percent in after-hours trading.Hot Topic, which also raised its quarterly dividend 14 percent, expects a first-quarter profit of 2 cents to 5 cents a share. Analysts were expecting the company to break even, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company, which sells licensed band and movie merchandise, posted a fourth-quarter net income of $9 million, or 21 cents a share, compared with a loss of $0.6 million, or 1 cent a share, last year.
Sales fell 1 percent to $209.9 million.
Analysts were expecting earnings of 20 cents a share on revenue of $209.3 million.
Gross margins increased to 35.4 percent from 32.2 percent in the year-ago quarter.
Shares of the company were up at $9.10 after the bell. They closed at $8.79 on Wednesday on the Nasdaq.
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