The third quarter of 2009 was profitable for Motorola

Motorola is still nahodtsya in crisis, its profits and sales continue to decline. However, there are positive trends. The third quarter of this year the company became profitable - net income totaled $ 12 million or 1 cent a share. This is more than analysts expected, and, according to company management, this result was achieved in a series of additional reductions in staff. The total number of cuts since December last year, Motorola was 8000 jobs.

The company's revenues totaled $ 5.45 billion, up 27% less than that of last year, when revenue totaled $ 7.48 billion, but in terms of net profit the company managed to surpass by far the result of the third quarter of 2008, the year the losses totaled $ 397 million. However, sales of mobile phones continued to fall. They amounted to 13.6 million units, which resulted in 1.69 billion dollars. These figures were only 54%. But there is positive dynamics - an operating loss in the third quarter of last year amounted to 840 million, and in the current year - $ 183 million.