Alliance Imaging Expects Rising Profit

In a bid to stabilize its stock price, Alliance Imaging Inc. said Monday that it expects annual earnings to rise as much as 74%, to 31 to 33 cents per share. Net income for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31 will be about $1.3 million, up 80% over 1990, the company said. Alliance, which sells magnetic resonance imaging devices, a sophisticated type of medical scanner, to hospitals and other health-care providers, also announced contracts to provide three new machines in 1992. Its stock, traded on the NASDAQ exchange, fell $2.50 Monday to close at $5.25 a share.