Company News: Netflix, Polaris Industries, SAC Capital, J.C. Penney, Six Flags

Profits follow Netflix’s subscriber surge; Polaris’s Indian Motorcycle sputters; and more

Netflix has streamed another earnings hit to Wall Street. The company reported a surge in customers signing up to see its burgeoning lineup of original programs; its third-quarter profit increased fourfold from a year earlier, to $31.8 million, beating analysts’ expectations. In the U.S., the company topped HBO with 29 million subscribers.