Casey's General Stores Inc. shares headed toward record highs in after-hours trading Monday, after the retail chain wrapped up its fiscal year with an earnings beat. Casey's reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $25.2 million, or 68 cents a share, on sales of $2.18 billion, up from 51 cents a share on revenue of $2.09 billion the year before. Analysts on average projected earnings of 46 cents a share on sales of $2.12 billion, according to FactSet. After closing with a 0.6% decline at $133.04, shares jumped more than 5% in after-hours trading Monday following release of the report, pushing prices well higher than $140 a share. Casey's shares have never closed higher than $136.95, the closing price on Feb. 26.
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