shares of container store group on tuesday dropped 14 to 233 in afterhours trading after the company unexpectedly swung to a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter and delivered guidance below analysts estimates the stock had already begun its retreat in regular trade closing down 49 at 271 shares are down about 37 for the year the specialty retail chain company posted a net loss for the three months ended april 1 of 1893 million or 385 a share compared with a profit of 232 million or 46 cents a share for the same period a year earlier analysts polled by factset had forecast earnings per share of 17 cents stripping out onetime items the companys earnings per share came in at 18 cents additionally container store guided for firstquarter sales between 200 million and 210 million while analysts polled by factset forecast sales of 2577 million it also anticipates fullyear sales in the range of 885 million and 900 million down from expectations of 107 billion the company said