hain celestial group inc on tuesday reported a rise in profit in the first quarter of fiscal 2022 and reaffirmed its guidance for the full year the foods and personalcare products company said earnings per share were 20 cents up from zero a year earlier net income was 194 million compared with 485000 a year earlier the company said also on a continuingoperations basis that net income figure compared with a yearearlier loss of 109 million it said adjusted earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization was 473 million compared with 549 million the company said for the full year the company reiterated its guidance of low singledigit adjusted net sales growth as well as modest adjusted gross margin expansion additionally it said it expects midtohigh singledigit adjusted ebitda growth we are pleased to have delivered better topline and bottomline firstquarter performance than our guidance as we navigated a challenging operating environment affected by industrywide inflation and labor challenges president and chief executive officer mark schiller said