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The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Manpower Clocks In The employment powerhouse turns in its numbers for second-quarter 2006 tomorrow. After seeing the Labor Department's lackluster employment report for the month of June, investors are understandably nervous about what tomorrow's news may contain.  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 January 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Boning Up on Zimmer With its margins as high as they are, and rising as steadily as they are, you won't be surprised to hear that the medical technology company's shares command premium prices.  |
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: BJ's Delivers Thanks to a 20% run-up in share price over the past three months, BJ's shares are starting to look pricey. The company has some work to do if it's to grow into its valuation.  |
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 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 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 February 22, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Red Hot Kohl's Kohl's margins have been marching upwards across the board. 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 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 July 18, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Manpower Knows All The staffing agency is set to report its second-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.  |
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 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 January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: General Dynamics Musters Last year was good to defense contractor General Dynamics, the shares of which bucked the market's overall stagnant trend to rise as much as 20% toward year's end. Will 2006 be similarly kind?  |
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 March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: New York, New Year Analysts are looking for clothier New York & Co. to hit the top of its latest guidance of $0.33 to $0.36 per share for the quarter. That 9% increase might be a bit optimistic, however, in light of the already confirmed "revenue miss."  |
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 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 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 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 March 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Adecco Stays Up Late Investors, the Swiss HR powerhouse has had the same gross margin, on a rolling basis, in every quarter for the last 18 months. With its net as low as it is, even the slightest margin improvement on the bottom line can turn modest revenue gains into spectacular growth in profits.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: American Standard American Standard's gross margin, which wasn't impacted at all by restructuring charges, has remained strong -- even growing slightly. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Caterpillar Purrs The secret to Cat's net profit success: margins. Despite high energy and raw materials costs, Cat has managed to keep its gross margin deterioration to a minimum. Investors, take note.  |
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: ITT's Q4 Report Card Barring some unforeseen disaster, it's practically guaranteed that trailing twelve months operating and net margins will continue their upward trend over at least the next few quarters. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cracking Open Budweiser While waiting to see if sales pick up, investors can make good use of their time by monitoring how well Anheuser-Busch uses its cash to increase shareholder value.  |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark Investors, if sales numbers come in weaker than expected for the cabinet maker, that might actually be good news. Just make sure that the sales the company keeps are the high margin ones.  |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Knocking Over drugstore.com Like to invest in companies that lose money? Then online drug retailer drugstore.com is one for you. Over its history, it has racked up losses totaling $732.8 million.  |
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 28, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Decoding Fargo It's steady as she goes at Fargo: Gross, operating, and net margins are all on a slow but steady rise after their September 2004 slump. Investors, take note.  |
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 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 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 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 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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Weyerhaeuser Sprouts When Weyerhaeuser beats analyst estimates, it usually does so by a large margin, but its misses are pretty sizable, too. Which way will it go? Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 8, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Thomson Publishes Unless cash generation surged in the fourth-quarter, 2005 will probably have to go down in the record books as a pretty weak year for Thomson. Investors, take note.  |
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 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 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 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 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 26, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cemex in the Mix If you're wondering how the Mexican cement giant managed to achieve better net margins than operating margins in the past two trailing-12-month (TTM) periods, you're not alone. Investors, take note.  |