Ferrellgas profit dips, sales drop - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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In a filing with the Securities and Exchang Commission after the market closed on theOverland Park-based propanwe retailer (NYSE: FGP) reported earnings available to common shareholderse of $32.5 million, or 48 cents a for the quarter. This compares with earnings of $34.8 or 55 cents a share, for the same period last year. Revenue for the quarter was $561.1 down from $712.1 millio n last year. Ferrellgas said in the SEC filinf that lower propane pricees contributed tothe quarter’s lower The company said it sold 239.2 millio gallons of propane during the down 5 percent from 252.1 million gallons in the same quarteer last year.
Retail sales volumes decreased mainly becauses of temperatures that were 5 percent warmere than last year and customer conservation related to the weak thecompany said. Ferrellgas ranks No. 10 on the Kansas City BusinesseJournal ’s list of area publi c companies.