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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 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 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 April 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Fun Time for Hasbro Hasbro breaks out its latest batch of profits news bright and early Monday morning. Seeing them, some investors will cry, and others will squeal with glee. Here are a few facts and figures to help you decide how to react.  |
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 January 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Silicon Labs Gels The semiconductor company is up 47% over the past 52 weeks. Can its winning streak continue?  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: Charmed, I'm Sure Should investors like this chain of plus-sized women's clothing stores?  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 February 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Change for a Dollar Tree Dollar Tree reported three weeks ago that its sales grew 9%, beating both the company's own reiterated guidance of a month ago and analyst forecasts. Profits, however, could still underperform. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Pushing the Limited Judging from the rolling margins, the company appears to be slipping, becoming less profitable over time, and thus unlikely to turn in a profits improvement three times better than its sales improvement. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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: 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 June 6, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark Tomorrow, the cabinetmaker reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects? Want to know what really matters?  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 April 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ingersoll-Rand Powers Up The diversified industrial manufacturer reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see -- and do you want to know what really matters?  |