Panasonic (PC) announced that it was expecting a rebound during the current financial year and that it should turn an operating profit, due to cost cutting bolstering profitability and its television unit.

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Superglass's board said that once the savings had been achieved the firm could be run at an operating profit in the future, even given the current depressed market for insulation.

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Analysts say Honda needs to phase out those generous incentives to meet a bullish goal of achieving an operating profit of 6% of sales for the current year, up from a paltry 2.9% of sales last year but still down from a high of 9.1% in 2002.

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Fitch said Nokia needs to stabilize revenues and be capable of generating low-single digit non-IFRS operating profit margins and positive pre-dividend free cash flow, if it is to affirm the current rating.

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