The rating on Oshkosh, Wis.-based specialty vehicle maker Oshkosh Corp. reflects the company's "significant" financial risk profile, which more than offsets its "satisfactory" business risk profile. We expect Oshkosh to maintain its leading positions in key segments of the cyclical specialty vehicle market--such as being the No. 1 global provider of aerial work platforms–-and its good product and end-market diversity, which its four reporting segments prove. Standard&Poor's Ratings Services expects credit measures to be somewhat better than our expectations for the rating in the next year or so. This provides some cushion in the event of weaker operational performance or for debt-financed acquisition activity. Our base-case expectations include: A continuation of the slow global economic recovery; A continued
