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The Motley Fool February 3, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Hasbro Hits Play Over the past two quarters, the company's inventories have grown almost in lockstep with sales growth -- no danger signs there. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Good FormFactor Investors, the semiconductor probe card maker's margin trends have all been moving down. If FormFactor comes anywhere near meeting analyst expectations tomorrow, however, it could be the start of an upward rise.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Snap-On The company's cash from operations has been on a general downward trend for quite a while. Investors need to look for signs that this trend has truly reversed before jumping in.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Triangulating Garmin Garmin's rolling margins don't seem to be revealing much of a trend in its business. One quarter they're up, the next they're down. If analysts are correct in their estimates, the fourth-quarter will turn out to be a down quarter. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Dissecting Silicon Labs For market beating results, investors may want to turn their attention from the big semiconductor names to little Silicon Labs.  |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Pricing Cost Plus How do rising sales turn into falling profits? Sadly, that's exactly what's going on at Cost Plus. Investors, take note.  |
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 April 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Silicon Labs Semiconductor maker Silicon Labs quietly toils away, generating massive returns for investors. Will the good times keep on rolling? Monday's news on the company's first-quarter 2006 results should give us a clue.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: EMC Equals What? Investors need to examine what's been going on with the company's inventories and accounts receivable, relative to sales growth. When either A/R or inventory growth begins to outpace sales growth, be wary.  |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Can Champion Prevail? As demand for its manufactured home products builds in the wake of last year's hurricanes, Champion is on the comeback trail. But the company still has a few issues investors need to keep an eye on.  |
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 February 16, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Talk America Talks Talk America's flat to declining sales, plus fewer profits earned on those sales, is not a recipe for earnings growth. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
A SLAB of Missed Opportunity Watch lists are good; actually buying undervalued stocks on those lists can be priceless. Which list should chip maker Silicon Labs be on?  |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Walgreen Diagnosed Walgreen investors need to keep a close eye on inventory growth to make sure it doesn't outpace sales. Otherwise, those inventories might need to be marked down, or even pitched in the dumpster one day.  |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Is It HOTT in Here? Investors, focus on inventories and free cash flow. That's where you'll find the first evidence of a turnaround, if one exists.  |
The Motley Fool February 13, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Out for a Stroll There's no question that La-Z-Boy is going through a rough patch now. What should be more important for long-term investors, however, is how the company deals with this difficult situation.  |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Opening the Barnes Door With Barnes & Noble's earnings estimate standing at $1.75, profits for the quarter are expected to rise 15% versus fourth-quarter 2004. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Seeking Silicon Labs Investors, to find a chip company that can make that boast, you need to shift your attention from the big names, and refocus it on little Silicon Labs.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ryder Dismounts This company has consistently beaten expectations in each of the past 20 quarters. Will it do so again in tomorrow's fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2005 release? Investors, take note.  |
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 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 9, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Coventry Calling Coventry Health Care is now the envy of the HMO world, besting the last reported margins of its competitors. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Charmed, I'm Sure Should investors like this chain of plus-sized women's clothing stores?  |
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 April 5, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Pier 1 Docks Over the past 18 months, the retailer's gross, operating and net margins have all collapsed -- and the culmination of this collapse is contained in analysts' prediction of just a penny's worth of profits when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings.  |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Manpower Powers Up Priced at a 19 times multiple to earnings and 20 times free cash flow, Manpower isn't the cheapest company on the planet. Still, it might be worth a look to investors.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: As American Axle Turns With sales flat to declining, investors don't want to see either inventories or A/R rise in comparison with their year-ago numbers (as, sadly, they have been doing recently.)  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Digging Vulcan Materials More worrisome than margins for investors in one of the country's leading producers of sand, gravel, and asphalt is the situation with cash flow -- at least at first glance.  |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Black & Decker Investors, keep an eye on the Power Tools and Accessories division. So long as it does well, Black & Decker as a whole will do just fine.  |
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 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 17, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Williams-Sonoma Sounds Off The home furnisher's margin improvements won't set any speed records, but they're definitely moving in the right direction. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Chewing Over Wrigley For investors, watching Wrigley's margin movement is like chewing on a stick of gum. It gives you something to do with your time, but doesn't really accomplish much.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Columbia Calling Even if sales rise a bit, as expected, investors need to watch those inventory levels closely; make sure the company isn't swamping itself in unwanted goods that it will need to unload at cut-rate prices in the future.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Rich Smith |
Silicon Labs Goes Boom! This time, in a good way. In an explosion of investor enthusiasm, the chip maker's stock rocketed up 21% in the after-hours market, cresting the day at $33 and change.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: International Page Turner Investors, look for signs that restructuring has produced a leaner and meaner International Paper, one that can execute more efficiently in the coming quarters.  |
The Motley Fool April 10, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Bed Bath & Beyond the Miss The home furnishings retailer is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings numbers shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.  |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Checking TurboChef's Oven Operating and net margins, while strong during the end of last year, have both turned negative recently. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: GameStop Starts With the exception of last quarter, GameStop's rolling gross margin has been trending downwards for the past 18 months, as have its operating and net margins. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 13, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Abercrombie on the Catwalk Unless there is a reversal of the inventory trend, this is an awfully good time for investors to start getting nervous about Abercrombie.  |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Anders Bylund |
Can Video Chips Save Silicon Labs? Silicon Labs sacrifices some margin strength to open a new revenue stream.  |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Opening the Tupperware If good news is reported, it could result in raised guidance for next quarter and a consequent boost to the stock price. Investors, take note.  |
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 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Sybase at Bat Sybase faces plenty of competition in the database market and as it head into tomorrow's earnings report for fourth-quarter and full-year 2005, the company looks set to end the year not with a bang, but with a whimper.  |
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 March 9, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Unflappable Ann Taylor Ann is beginning to regain its footing. The booming stock price suggests that Wall Street has figured that out.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Counting Coinstar Investors should watch for any comments the company might make about its test program to place its coin-counting machines in Wal-Marts. As an expansion of the company's original, high-margin core business plan, that move seems to have the greatest potential for success.  |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Viewing 1-800 CONTACTS It's been five quarters now since the company last met, much less beat, analyst expectations. Considering how low expectations have been set, when the company reports its fourth-quarter and full-year 2005, it might just be investors' lucky day.  |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Sportsman's Guide Shifting Wall Street has had more than a month to chew over January's guidance and has bid the company's shares up 14% in response. Can the stock go higher tomorrow? That will depend on two things.  |
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.  |