While the firm achieved sales of £236m in the year to December 2012 it has not managed to trade profitably in any year since HSBC took its stake and it reported a £909,000 loss in its last published accounts for the year to 1 January 2012.
On Monday, mission controllers told the Spirit to orient itself by locating the Sun in the sky with its camera, and it reported that it had been unable to do so.
The company has gone through a structural change by selling its milk business and it reported a 5.8% fall in full year revenues last month.
Another drug company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, suffered a 3percentt drop in its stock yesterday after its earnings fell short of Wall Street forecasts and it reported that the excess inventories of its products at wholesalers were higher than it had estimated.
But its mortgage problems mounted, and it reported an annual loss of €3.5 billion in 2016.
(Just to double-check, I asked comScore for its numbers on BuzzFeed, and it reported that the site saw 31.9 million global unique visitors on desktop in July, up 133percentt from July 2012).
Its largest customer is the Boeing Company, and it reported sales of $19 million in 1989.
Its stock performance was relatively flat, and it reported earnings of $8.35 billion, down 37 percent from 2009.
Arguably the best-known British brand in the U.S., the BBC has righted its fiscal ship through cost-cutting and it reported an aftertax surplus last year of $102 million, on revenues of around $5 billion.
Arch-enemy Intel is also refreshing its lineup of laptop processors (See "Intel Fights Back"), and it reported strong earnings on Tuesday after the market closed.
And it reported a net loss for last year.
