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The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Unzipping Coach Coach's trailing P/E of 29 looks a little worse than its actual price-to-free cash flow ratio of 26. But even if the company continues to grow at analysts' projected rate of 20% per year, this is one pricey handbag.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Is Acxiom Just Spinning? Buying Acxiom looks like a better idea than betting against it. The company's trailing-12-month P/E of 42 may not look cheap, but its mammoth cash flows give the firm an ultra-cheap price-to-free-cash-flow ratio of 8.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Corinthian's Q2 Report Card The past couple of quarters have not been kind to Corinthian's margins (or its stock, either). Primarily as a result of the firm's weak margins, its stock looks a bit pricey.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Simply CNS Analysts believe that CNS will grow at an annualized rate of 18% in the long term. That's tremendous, but perhaps not enough to justify its P/E ratio of 21, or its price-to-free cash flow ratio of 21.  |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Riding the Digital River Valuation looks good enough here -- especially when you consider just how truly cheap the stock is looking today. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: TransAct Investors, if you thought TransAct looked expensive at a trailing P/E of 47, look again. At a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 80, it's doubly so.  |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Kensey Grow or Not? The medical technology company's problem is that when you hold your margins more or less steady while your revenues also remain roughly the same, well, everything stays the same. In other words, you can't grow earnings. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Monitoring the Citi Trends Citi Trends has been public for less than a year. Still, five quarters should be enough to give investors an idea as to where the company is trending.  |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cummins Roars Despite skyrocketing raw materials and energy costs the company has improved gross margins slightly in recent quarters. Investors, what's not to like here?  |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Nile's Tide Comes In The Internet jeweler's gross margins have been on a steady, if shallow, decline for the past 18 months. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: TLC for TLC Vision? Will investors receive fourth-quarter and full-year numbers with tender loving care, or will they give the stock the boot? Whichever way it goes, here are the facts you'll need to evaluate whether Mr. Market's reaction is correct.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: 1-800-Flowers in Season In its fiscal first-quarter earnings release back in November, the company promised improved margins later in the year. Investors, don't expect to see the whole bump all at once.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Qualcomm Calling High quality rarely comes without a high price tag. If you want to own a piece of Qualcomm, it's going to cost you 37 times earnings (and the same multiple to free cash flow) to do it.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: LCA-Vision Checkup The 30% growth that analysts expect to see, although great objectively, still makes LCA's stock look expensive relative to its recent growth.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Perpetual Good Moody's With Moody's currently trading for a 2.3 price to earnings to growth (PEG) ratio, it's easy to understand the stock's hold rating. That kind of pricing deserves some skepticism.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Lighting Up Lucent With only 6% projected long-term growth ahead of it, a P/E of 10 and a price-to-free-cash-flow ratio more than twice as large, this stock doesn't look like a buy.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Netflix in the Mail Reviewing the company's recent performance, we see a pronounced trend toward lower gross margins, both sequentially and year over year. By any traditional valuation method, Netflix looks grossly overpriced.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Sina Debarks Although Sina officially sports a pricey P/E of 28, the company currently trades for just a bit over 20 times its trailing free cash flow. That's not at all an unreasonable price to pay if the firm can meet analyst estimates of 19% long-term profits growth.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: CheckFree Clears The more time that goes by and the bigger its base of business gets, the stronger CheckFree's margins are becoming. This company is truly a force to be reckoned with. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Zale's Tiebreaker Zale's fiscal first-quarter appears to be a seasonally weak one for the company. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Counting Diamond's Facets This stock wasn't worth buying a year ago at its IPO price, and it still isn't worth buying today. The company's trailing P/E has turned negative, and even with $5.9 million in trailing free cash flow, the company's resulting valuation at 51.5 times FCF.  |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Under Armour Undresses Under Armour's short history doesn't tell investors much more than that gross margins are strengthening -- a strength that hasn't yet dropped to the bottom line.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Salesforce.com Calling With its resulting price-to-free cash flow ratio of 65, Salesforce.com won't be cheap even if it achieves the 45% long-term compounded earnings growth that analysts project for it.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Oil-Dri Towels Off Over the past 12 months, the kitty litter manufacturer generated only $5 million in free cash flow. That's been quite a disappointment after the $14.4 million generated in the previous 12 months, and far below historical levels of cash generation. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cisco Sending Cisco's gross margins have been on a long, slow slide over the past 18 months. But until last quarter, the company's operating and net margins had been moving in the opposite direction. What does it mean for investors?  |
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Resources Connection The knock on Resources these days is that its success was due to companies being forced to pay up to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. Now that those revenues are drying up fast, so is Resources' stock price.  |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ciena Starts Again The telecom equipment-maker is set to report its first-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Divining DuPont DuPont sports a trailing P/E of 18, but beware. On a free cash flow basis, this company's positively acidic, with a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 33.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: TALX Talks This provider of payroll-related and human resources services is a primo business trading at premium prices. Much of its stock price depends on the firm continuing to beat expectations and accelerate its margin growth.  |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Winnebago Pulls In High raw-material and energy costs continue to squeeze Winnebago's gross margins, which have fallen steadily over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Progress Boots Up Over the past four years, application infrastructure software maker Progress has beaten consensus estimates for its earnings 15 times in a row. Can the company make it a streak of "sweet 16" trouncings of the Wall Street Wise?  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Xerox Hits Stop With 11% growth projected over the next five years, Xerox's price isn't super-expensive, but it's not yet a bargain.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ready for RedEnvelope? The company is unprofitable on a cash (free cash flow) or an accounting (GAAP net profits) basis. If it has any value at all, it's still in the eye of the beholder at this point. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: A Glance at Google Google's margins are a thing of beauty, and the upward trend they're on is even more stunning. Unfortunately, the valuation looks pretty darn amazing, too. The stock sells for 96 times trailing earnings and an only slightly more reasonable 84 times trailing free cash flow.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Braving the Amazon.com Tomorrow, investors will see whether the company can pick up the pace again and reverse its slide with some real, honest-to-goodness cash profits.  |
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Soup's On at Darden Great as this restaurant operator is, with future growth projected to average closer to 12% per annum, the shares look rather pricey.  |
The Motley Fool February 8, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: K-Swiss Ready to Run The athletic shoe manufacturer's performance may be super, but its valuation remains unexceptional.  |
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: FedEx in the Mail FedEx is a superior company, and analysts set superior expectations for it. There's always a danger when Wall Street sets its expectations too high and investors believe them.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Good bebe? Looking at trends in the retail clothier's margins, one sees a business on the rise. Investors, don't be surprised if the company swings to the upside when it reports fiscal second-quarter 2006 earnings.  |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cracking Coke Open Whatever happens tomorrow with the net margin under GAAP, it's more important for investors to watch Coca-Cola's free cash flow, which usually exceeds accounting profits by a considerable amount.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Wendy's Order's Up There's a veritable plethora of issues on investor's radar, considering that Wendy's is going through a whole lot of changes in an effort to get its business back on track.  |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Nike Ready to Run Investors, an established retailer like Nike will probably have well-managed inventory, but keep an eye on the inventories tomorrow, just to be sure.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Hershey Unwraps Focus on the margins -- there investors will find the proof of how well Hershey is managing to offset its raw materials costs.  |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Polo Mounts Up The company's net profits are riding a wave of strong gross margins, which have risen for the past 12 months. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool May 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Novell News For three quarters running, business-software provider Novell has confounded the experts, reporting better-than-expected earnings. Can the company keep the good news coming when it reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow afternoon?  |
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Salesforce.com, on Balance The CRM software provider has reported earnings eight times since it became a publicly traded company, either meeting analyst expectations or beating them by a penny. What does tomorrow's fiscal second-quarter 2007 report hold?  |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Redrawing Borders The bookstore's fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 financial performance will enter the history books, and we can look forward to a new fiscal year -- hopefully, one in which the company's stock price doesn't fall in inverse proportion to the S&P's rise.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Clorox Comes Clean Over the past four quarters, Clorox's rolling margin results have fallen consecutively in the gross, operating, and net categories. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Colgate-Palmolive in the Wash Will the stock's winning streak continue? Wednesday's fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results could factor heavily in answering that question.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ADM Takes Aim Archer-Daniels-Midland's results last quarter epitomized the word "mixed." Where will they fall tomorrow as it releases it earnings numbers for its second quarter? Investors, take note.  |