** Organic grocery chain Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
Inc NGVC.N shares rise 17.7% to $13.63 premarket
** Company's Q4 profit jumps to $0.16/shr from $0.06/shr a
year earlier urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nPn3pQxyWa
** Declares special cash dividend of $2.00/shr and quarterly
dividend of $0.07/shr
** Q4 net sales increase 16.3% to $264.2 million; daily
average comparable store sales up 13.2%
** Stock has risen 17.32% so far this year
(Reporting by Rithika Krishna)
((Rithika.Krishna@thomsonreuters.com))