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But the profits were still ahead of City forecasts.
Whitbread expects to meet City forecasts for full-year profits.
Revenues climbed 23% to £2.6bn, propelling underlying profits before tax to £475m, ahead of City forecasts.
It matched February's figure, and beat City forecasts of a slight drop to 59.5.
Tesco beat City forecasts with UK like-for-like sales growth of 4.9%.
First there were the higher-than-expected inflation figures on Tuesday, which defied City forecasts.
Aviva beat City forecasts with a 6% rise in profits last year to £2.5bn.
City forecasts have been consistently confounded over the last two years on a range of measures.
City forecasts are predicting growth of up to 0.8% for the last quarter.
Earlier in the week Compass beat City forecasts with a 29% rise in first-half profit.
Its finance director, Trevor Strain, added that the company was happy with City forecasts of £356m for full-year profits.
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