date:Oct 09, 2013
plan. The acquisition of San Francisco-based Climate Corp for $930 million will dilute fiscal 2014 earnings by about 14 cents a share, the company said.
Overall, Monsanto lost $249 million, or 47 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $229 million, or 42 cents a share, a year earlier. Analysts on average were expecting a loss of 43 cents a share. Sales rose to $2.2 billion from $2.1 billion, but sales of its key seeds and genomics business dropped to $1.19 billion from $