Dillard's reports improved fourth-quarter financial results

During the fourth-quarter, Dillard's recorded net income of $79.5 million, or $1.08 a share. In the same period a year earlier, the department store operator had a net loss of $149.3 million, or $2.03 per share.

For all of 2009, Dillard's had net income of $68.5 million, or 93 cents per share. In 2008, Dillard's had a net loss of $241.1 million, or $3.25 per share.

Dillard's operates stores in the metro New Orleans area.