Janus Capital Group
Fourth-quarter earnings rose almost fivefold as the stock market’s recovery in 2009 lifted client assets. Net income increased to $37 million, or 20 cents a share, from $7.8 million, or 5 cents, a year earlier, the Denver-based company said Thursday.
Xcel Energy
Fourth-quarter earnings rose 2.9 percent. The electric and natural-gas utility reported a profit of $167.8 million, or 37 cents a share, up from $163 million, or 36 cents a share, a year earlier.
Lockheed Martin
The world’s largest defense company reported fourth-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates and raised the 2010 earnings forecast as it works to control costs on the F-35 aircraft.
Net income rose to $827 million, or $2.17 a share, from $823 million, or $2.05, a year earlier, Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed said Thursday.
Eastman Kodak
The remade picture-taking pioneer broke a series of four straight quarterly losses with a $443 million profit in the last three months of 2009, sending its shares sharply higher.
Kodak earned the equivalent of $1.40 a share in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $918 million, or $3.42 a share, a year earlier.
Amazon
Fourth-quarter earnings skyrocketed 71 percent as shoppers spent more than ever during the holiday season.
Amazon said it earned $384 million, or 85 cents per share, in the October-December period, compared with $225 million, or 52 cents per share, in the same period last year.
Microsoft
Earnings in the most recent quarter jumped 60 percent, helped by a rebound in personal computer sales.
For the fiscal second quarter, which ended Dec. 31, Microsoft said its net income rose to $6.7 billion, or 74 cents per share, from $4.17 billion, or 47 cents per share, in the same period last year.
Procter & Gamble
With budget-focused households responding to price cuts, promotions and new versions of its products, the maker of Pampers diapers and Gillette shavers says its sales are growing at pre-recession rates.
The consumer-products maker said it earned $4.66 billion, or $1.49 per share, with sales of $21 billion.
AT&T
It earned $3 billion, or 51 cents per share, in the last three months of 2009. That was up 26 percent from the same period of 2008.
