ST. LOUIS (AP) — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Core & Main Inc. (CNM) on Wednesday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $119 million.

The St. Louis-based company said it had profit of 61 cents per share.

The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 73 cents per share.

The distributor of water and fire protection products posted revenue of $1.96 billion in the period.

Core & Main expects full-year revenue in the range of $7.3 billion to $7.4 billion.

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