TOKYO — Honda's quarterly profit doubled from a year earlier as sales got a big perk from a weak yen.

Honda Motor Co. reported on Friday a $1.58 billion net profit for the October-December fiscal third quarter, up from 77.4 billion yen the year before.

The maker of the Fit subcompact, Odyssey minivan and Asimo humanoid, posted a 25 percent jump in quarterly sales to 3.02 trillion yen ($29.6 billion).

A favorable exchange rate helped Honda's fortunes. The dollar has been trading above 100 yen compared with about 80 yen a year earlier. A weak yen helps lift the value of Japanese exporters' overseas revenue.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is finally ready to split its stock for the first time, more than three years after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began discussing a move engineered to ensure they remain in control of the Internet's most powerful company.The split is scheduled to occur April 2. It had been delayed because of staunch resistance from other Google Inc. shareholders, who feared the maneuver would unfairly benefit Page and Brin at the expense of just about everyone else.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Mattel's fourth-quarter net income climbed 21 percent from year-ago results depressed by a litigation charge. But sales of brands including Barbie and Fisher-Price dropped during the key holiday selling period.The toy company's performance missed analysts' estimates.Its stock fell in Friday premarket trading.For the three months ended Dec. 31, Mattel Inc. earned $369.2 million, or $1.07 per share. That compares with $306.5 million, or 87 cents per share, a year ago.Revenue dropped 7 percent to $2.11 billion from $2.26 billion. Barbie and Fisher-Price sales both declined 13 percent.Analysts expected earnings of $1.19 per share on revenue of $2.37 billion.