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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 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 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 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 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 May 22, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Foolish Forecast: Dick's Is an Athletic Supporter The sporting-goods retailer is set to release its first-quarter earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.  |
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Autodesk Opens Its Drawers Autodesk sports a premium multiple even after the recent share price weakness: 30 times trailing earnings.  |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Foolish Forecast: Dick's Steps Up to the Plate The sporting goods retailer is set to report its most recent quarterly earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.  |
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 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 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 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 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 March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Here, Petco, Petco! The good news: Most of Petco's bad news is limited to the top few lines of its earnings statement, where sales and cost of sales are laid out. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2004 Mike Cianciolo |
Dick's Doldrums The sporting goods retailer had a solid quarter, so why did the stock drop?  |
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 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Fetching REX The last few quarters have been good to specialty electronics retailer REX Stores, which has taken maximum advantage of federal tax breaks for investments in synthetic fuels. But is that the full story? 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 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: 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 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 March 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Dollar General Forms Up Discount retailer Dollar General forms up to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results tomorrow morning. Will investors give it a medal or a dishonorable discharge from their portfolios?  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 March 28, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Ciao, Natuzzi Sales are slumping, gross margins are down 320 basis points over the past 18 months, and the company has lost money in each of the past four quarters. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Best Buy Opens Early Best Buy is expecting to report same-store sales gains of 6% to 7% in the fourth quarter, and "strong" revenue growth overall. In contrast to its customers, Best Buy says it's been keeping tight reins on its own spending.  |
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 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: 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 March 11, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
Dick's Is a Sport Slowing growth estimates hurt Dick's today, but the retailer is performing well.  |
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 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 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 May 9, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: TurboChef Flames Out The oven maker returns to the public markets with news on its first quarter of 2006. 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 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 November 21, 2005 Jeremy MacNealy |
Is Dick's Sportin' the Goods? Dick's is back in black after a profitable third quarter. If you're looking for some exposure in the sporting-goods market, the retailer's reasonable valuation and long-term growth prospects could provide an opportunity.  |
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 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 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 November 29, 2011 Keki Fatakia |
Dick's Sporting Goods: Fantastic Third Quarter + Dividend = Win Dick's Sporting Goods sees third-quarter net income more than double to $41.5 million.  |
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 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: 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.  |