Stripping out the extraordinary items, fourth-quarter earnings were 64 cents a share compared to 25 cents a share in the prior year.
Earnings were 59 cents a share for the three months ended May 25 compared with 15 cents a share a year earlier.

On a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing", how closely does the first sentence resemble the second one?
1