Consumer Portfolio Services Inc.: The Irvine company,...

Consumer Portfolio Services Inc.: The Irvine company, which buys, sells and services retail auto installment sales contracts, posted a loss of $303,695, or 9 cents a share, for its latest fiscal quarter. That compared to a loss of $508,773, or 18 cents a share, for the same period a year earlier. Revenue for the company’s third fiscal quarter, which ended Dec. 31, rose 88% to $625,501 from $331,524. For the first three quarters of its fiscal year, the company lost $814,729, or 27 cents a share, on revenue of $1.7 million. For the comparable period in 1991, it posted a loss of $2 million, or 71 cents a share, on revenue of $613,054.