Analysts expect the loss to be cut to 27 cents per share this year and for the company to be profitable in 2002, with a profit of 27 cents per share.
General Motors' interim chief executive, Edward Whitacre, says he expects the government-owned automaker to be profitable in 2010 but that profits aren't a prerequisite for a public stock offering, possibly before the end of the year.
Southwest Airlines, the only major U.S. airline to post an operating and net profit in 2002, expects to be profitable in both the second-quarter and for the full year 2003, said Chief Executive Jim Parker.
CenterBeam intends to be profitable in 2003; Everdream is aiming for profitability in 2001.
The company operated profitably in 2008 and is expected to be profitable in 2009.
On Thursday Future said the green shoots of recovery are well under way and that the US is now "close to returning to profitability, fulfilling a commitment we made a year ago to be profitable in the US in 2013".
All the firms claimed to be profitable in recent years.
Analysts expected Sonus to be profitable in the current quarter.
"We expect to be profitable in 2012, our second full year" of operation, Mr. Weinmann said.
It said it did not expect to be profitable in 2011.
US Airways expects to be profitable in the second quarter, its first quarterly gain since 2007.
