1.   Although Innerdyne has yet to have a profitable quarter, it has been a winner for the Perkins fund.

2.   And after what Chairman Allen Born notes was a long dry spell for the industry, Alumax has reported two consecutive profitable quarters this year.

3.   Analysts had been expecting a profitable quarter.

4.   As a result, analysts no longer expect the company to post its first profitable quarter this year.

5.   Ashton has not had a profitable quarter.

6.   A resurgent Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported its fifth consecutive profitable quarter.

7.   After the restatement last November, the company reported two consecutive profitable quarters.

8.   Chancellor recently said it expects to report its seventh consecutive profitable quarter and put up its best numbers in a decade.

9.   Chief Executive Roel Pieper said the company has had five consecutive profitable quarters.

10.   Compaq used preliminary tallies from its third quarter, which ended Sunday, to caution Wall Street analysts that its earlier projections for a profitable quarter had been wrong.