1.   Although most analysts credit Fisher with focusing the company on digital technologies, profits have remained elusive.

2.   Analysts credit management, led by Thomas L. Kemp, the chief executive, with steering Penton toward the highly profitable trade show business.

3.   Analysts credit new power supplies, a state-led conservation effort and federal price controls for averting what many had feared would be a catastrophic summer of scarcity.

4.   Analysts credit WebTV with doing a good job at making its device relatively easy to install.

5.   Analysts credited management with steering Kodak through those troubling events in part by running its plants more efficiently and securing a lower tax rate.

6.   Analysts also credit Disney as a strong marketer.

7.   Analysts credit Flick with helping Sears get back in tune.

8.   Analysts credit the ad campaign with helping Glendale Federal return to solid profitability from the brink of government seizure five years ago.

9.   Analysts credit Fed policy and a brutal competitive environment for keeping prices in check.

10.   Analysts credit higher-than-expected tax collections for most of the drop.