Operating profit in the period, the Swedish group's fiscal fourth quarter, was 821 million Swedish crowns ($79.7 million)against 6.26 billion a year earlier and a mean forecast of 3.67 billion in a Refinitiv poll of analysts.
($1 = 10.2969 Swedish crowns)
(Reporting by Marie Mannes and Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm, editing by Terje Solsvik)