MONETT, Mo. (AP) — MONETT, Mo. (AP) — Jack Henry & Associates Inc. (JKHY) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $160.4 million.

On a per-share basis, the Monett, Missouri-based company said it had profit of $2.28.

The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.03 per share.

The payment processsing company posted revenue of $701.5 million in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $683.8 million.

Jack Henry expects full-year earnings to be $7.47 to $7.51 per share, with revenue in the range of $2.7 billion to $2.72 billion.

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