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BUZZ-Sainsbury: bottom of FTSE 100 as suffers 1st loss in a decade

Reuters - UK Focus

** Sainsbury posts first annual underlying profit fall since 2005 amid fierce price war

** Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) called up 2 pct by three brokers in the pre-market; co posts FY underlying pretax profit of 681 mln pounds, ahead of analysts' avg forecast of 659 mln pounds - but down 14.7 pct from 798 mln pounds made in the 2013-14 yr

** Stock, down 2.6 pct, top UK blue-chip faller, & 3rd most actively traded on FTSE 100

** Sainsbury is 2nd most-borrowed FTSE 100 stock, with 13.8 pct of its shares on loan (with Morrisons in 3rd spot), according to Markit (NasdaqGS: MRKT - news) data

** Sainsbury, however, top performer of UK's big four supermarkets in 12 wks to April 26, according to Kantar Worldpanel data (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : tricia.wright1.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)