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The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	WellPoint Holds Up Well Going with quality can soften the blow when a sector goes out of favor. This has been a very tough stretch for managed-care companies, but WellPoint has come through relatively well. This is a stock worth some consideration.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Can Boston Scientific Get It Right? To boost investor confidence, management must first prove itself.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Coventry Has to Fight the Tape Investors ignored risks a year ago. Now they obsess about them. There could be long-term value here, but investors in this health-care company may have to be patient to see it develop in the market.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006	Inventory: Less Is More As investors review a company's financial statements, it can be useful to compare the growth rate of inventories with the growth rate of revenues. You generally don't want to see inventories growing faster.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Massey Energy Takes Its Lumps A suboptimal operator continues to have operating issues. Coal may yet prove to be pausing in preparation for more long-term gains, but investors shouldn't be all that comfortable making a long-term bet on Massey -- even at these lower levels.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Jim Mueller	Sour Applebee's: Fool by Numbers The restaurant chain released second-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Chesapeake Energy and the Nature of Risk While Chesapeake merits real consideration at today's prices, near-term worries about natural gas prices (whether exaggerated with respect to Chesapeake's particular degree of exposure or not) could make for a rockier go of it at times.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Investors Put Baker Hughes on Back Burner Energy services company Baker Hughes told the truth on Friday. The company's reward was to get marked down over 3%, on a day that wasn't all that bad for other service stocks.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	More Plavix Headaches for Bristol-Myers Problems with a Plavix settlement put a large chunk of earnings at risk. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Apache Continues to Pump Out Value Not always fully appreciated by Wall Street, Apache is a reasonable idea for long-term investors.
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