Texas Roadhouse Shares Gain After Upbeat Start to Quarter

A Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Arvada, Colorado.

Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg

Texas Roadhouse Inc. shares climbed after the company reported robust sales growth for the start of the first quarter, even as fourth-quarter same-store sales fell short of Wall Street forecasts.

Same-store sales in the first seven weeks of its first quarter rose 8.2%, the company said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Thursday. That compared with a 5.9% increase expected by analysts for the full first quarter in a Bloomberg poll.