Outlook roundup: Polaris Industries, ITT

Among the earnings projection stories for Tuesday, April 15, from AP Financial News:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ Polaris Industries Inc., which makes snowmobiles, motorcycles and ATVs, raised its full-year earnings forecast Tuesday after reporting its first-quarter profit surged 54 percent.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) _ Defense contractor ITT Corp. said Tuesday it expects to exceed previously issued first-quarter and full-year profit guidance.

NEW YORK (AP) _ Investment management company Ares Capital Corp. said Tuesday it expects to report first-quarter net income of 6 cents per share to 15 cents per share.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ Shares in Skanska AB fell by almost 6 percent on Tuesday after the Swedish construction company announced order bookings fell in the first quarter and said it would take a $56.3 million write-down on three British hospital projects that were worth a combined $2.4 billion.

NEW YORK (AP) _ Forest Laboratories Inc. on Tuesday guided for fiscal 2009 income and revenue below Wall Street expectations, as the drug developer plans to ramp up research spending.

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