RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — RTP-basedRed Hat, Inc.beat Wall Street expectations, breaking even in the company's fiscal fourth-quarter. The Street believed that the company would post a loss of one penny per share.
After the close of trading Thursday, Red Hat said its loss for the quarter ended Feb. 28 was $600,000, which it said means it broke even on a per-share basis.
At $27 million, Red Hat's fourth-quarter revenue rose 106 percent from the year-ago quarter. It was slightly ahead of analysts' expectation of $26.7 million.
For the full fiscal year was $84 million, making a $5.9 million net loss for the fiscal year, compared with a loss of $19 million the year earlier.



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