carrols restaurant group shares hit a new 52week high in early trading thursday after the largest burger king franchisee in the us posted quarterly results that topped wall streets expectations shares of the syracuse ny company were recently changing hands at 720 up 16 after touching a 52week high of 775 earlier in the session carrols reported an adjusted profit of 27 cents a share amid a 98 rise in sales to 4852 million for its fiscal second quarter ended july 2 2023 analysts polled by factset on average were expecting adjusted earnings of five cents a share on sales of 4752 million carrols said comparablerestaurant sales for its burger king restaurants rose 104 while comparable sales for its popeyes locations rose 116