restaurant brands international inc qsr reported fourthquarter profit and revenue that rose above expectations as burger king samestores sales beat forecasts to help offset misses by tim hortons and popeyes louisiana kitchen plk the fastfood restaurant chains stock was still inactive in premarket trading net income rose to 179 million or 57 cents a share from 91 million or 30 cents a share in the yearago period excluding nonrecurring items adjusted earnings per share of 74 cents was above the factset consensus of 69 cents revenue grew 138 to 155 billion to beat the factset consensus of 152 billion samestore sales rose 113 for burger king to beat the factset consensus for a 93 rise and increased 103 for tim hortons to miss expectations of 106 growth while falling 04 for plk to miss expectations for a 20 rise for the year digital sales grew over 65 to 10 billion representing nearly 30 of total sales the company said that while covid19 continued to impact results the results were less affected in 2021 than in 2020 as substantially all of its restaurants remained open the stock has slipped 21 over the past three months while the sp 500 spx has dropped 60