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The Motley Fool April 18, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: American Standard Flush? While the nation's most famous toilet maker isn't doing so hot in the toilet-selling department, its air conditioning, residential, and vehicle control systems units all turned in strong performances. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool December 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Should You Believe in Credence? When the semiconductor tester reports its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings, will this make for three quarters in a row of missing analyst projections? 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 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 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 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 October 16, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: American's Wobbly Standard With two earnings misses, a beat, and a match to its credit over the last four quarters, the kitchen and bath fixture-maker hasn't exactly set the standard for consistent outperformance lately. What is in store for the third quarter? 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 3, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Rent-A-Center Returns Here's what you need to know to make sense of the market's reaction to the company's impending fourth-quarter and full-year earnings release.  |
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 March 14, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cosi-ing Up to Earnings The restaurant operator has spent three years on the public markets and has yet to post a profit. Yet every quarter it narrows its losses a bit more against the previous year's equivalent period. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Will Credence Clear Water? Can semiconductor-tester Credence Systems keep up its recent profitable trend, and make it three in a row for positive (pro forma only) earnings when it reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers on Thursday? Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Getting Some Digital Insight Want to know what's happening at online banking facilitator Digital Insight? The company reports first-quarter 2006 results after close of trading tomorrow. In the meantime, let's take a look at a few facts that will help put the numbers in context.  |
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 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 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 February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: IHOP Opens Early The restaurant's three-prong approach for improving its business looks like it's working. Investors, take note.  |
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 March 16, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Deconstructing Adobe The software company is set to report it fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings numbers. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.  |
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 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ciena Glimmers The telecom equipment maker's far from healthy, but the company does appear to be recovering -- at least at the top of the income statement. Investors, take note.  |
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 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 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 January 31, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: JDSU JDS Uniphase's margins have been a train wreck for some time. Even if you ignore the ugly negatives found in the operating and net margin lines, the gross margin picture isn't particularly attractive, either.  |
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: Eastman Kodak Yesterday was a very good day for the company's shareholders. While the Dow rose a little under 1%, shares of film pharaoh Kodak leapt nearly 4%.  |
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 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 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 14, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: The Year in (Princeton) Review The test-prep company's investors has better hope the analyst got it right this time, after overestimating the company's profits in three of the past four quarters.  |
The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Dean Foods Dean's gross margins ebbed and flowed over the course of the past 18 months. At last report, they wound up right back where they started, averaging about 24.3%. 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 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 10, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Radyne Sending Radyne has suffered some significant gross margin compression over the past 18 months. Its operating margins also seem headed downward, and its net, which looked so strong a year ago, took a big hit last quarter. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ventiv's Checkup The medical "solutions" outsourcer's growth has found its way down into the operating margins, fortuitously timed tax credits have given the net margin a boost. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Campbell Soup's On Campbell's is indeed turning its ship around. Rolling gross, operating and net margins have been on the rise sequentially for the last four quarters. Investors, take note.  |
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 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Adobe Downloads Investors, this company is practically printing money. Or at least it was, until this quarter. There are several things to keep in mind if you're to make sense of tomorrow's first-quarter earnings release -- and the market's reaction thereto.  |
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 25, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Finding First Data Wall Street loves Western Union's parent company, but its margins are a bit of a mixed bag. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ARM Holdings ARM Holdings' stock closed out last week by hitting an intraday 52-week high of $7.43 before relapsing a bit. Will tomorrow send it still higher?  |
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 March 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Batter Up at Dick's Even if the sporting goods retailer meets expectations of 20% long-term earnings growth, the price looks pretty rich for investors.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: How Safe Is Symantec? What should worry Symantec investors was the company's December announcement that it is restating its statement of cash flows for the first half of fiscal 2006. Investors need to keep a sharp eye on this for the next few quarters.  |
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 July 25, 2006 Nathan Parmelee |
Wrigley's Flavor Fades: Fool by Numbers The company released second-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Highlights...  |
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 March 14, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Charmed, I'm Sure Should investors like this chain of plus-sized women's clothing stores?  |