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The Motley Fool June 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Featuring FedEx The company reports its fiscal-fourth quarter and full year 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, take note.
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.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx Takes the Field The delivery company's first quarterly report for its fiscal year 2007 is due out: investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool September 22, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Fed Up With FedEx? Investors put a damper on the company's earnings report.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Sun Come Out Tomorrow? Anyone who thinks that penny stocks are by definition "cheap" needs to take a close look at Sun Microsystems.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx First The shipping specialist is set to report its fiscal first-quarter 2008 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx Will Straighten Up, Fly Right In advance of earnings analysts expect FedEx to show a drop in profits.
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 March 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx in the Mail The delivery company is set to report its quarterly earnings numbers. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.
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 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Unzipping Coach Coach's trailing P/E of 29 looks a little worse than its actual price-to-free cash flow ratio of 26. But even if the company continues to grow at analysts' projected rate of 20% per year, this is one pricey handbag.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hello, Ruby Tuesday The company's rolling gross margins have been on a long, slow slide over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
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 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 November 5, 2010 Seth Jayson	Does FedEx Measure Up? Here's the current margin snapshot for FedEx and some of its sector and industry peers and direct competitors.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: UPS Rolling In The transporter has stemmed the tide of declining margins and is moving back northward on both the operating and net margin fronts. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2011 Rich Smith	FedEx: Economic Weathervane If everything goes right for FedEx, this stock may be appropriately priced at about 21 times earnings, with 16% long-term growth projected. But everything probably won't go right.
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 June 21, 2007 Rich Smith	FedEx Flying Fine And investing heavily. So the company missed earnings -- it's no big deal to investors.
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 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Delta & Pine Land When considering this farming company's margin trends, it's best for investors to focus on rolling gross and operating margins and be leery of drawing conclusions from the net results.
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 June 24, 2005 Jeremy MacNealy	FedEx's Fuel Fails High oil prices and lowered expectations hurt the stock. Are better times ahead?
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 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 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: 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 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Progress Boots Up Over the past four years, application infrastructure software maker Progress has beaten consensus estimates for its earnings 15 times in a row. Can the company make it a streak of "sweet 16" trouncings of the Wall Street Wise?
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: The Real United Technologies? When the conglomerated defense contractor reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 results early tomorrow morning, will it revert to the past, or continue wowing the critics?
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx Flying In The delivery specialist started the new fiscal year off right back in September by adding a fifth quarter to its string of earnings beats. But can the company extend its streak when it reports its fiscal second-quarter 2007 numbers?
The Motley Fool March 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Family Dollar for Your Thoughts The deep-discounter's margins remain under pressure, having fallen across the board over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2010 Rich Smith	FedEx's Fate Up in the Air Is it good news or bad news? Make up your mind.
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: 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 December 18, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx Back in the Mail In advance of earnings, analysts expect to see a big tumble in profits from shipping specialist Fed-Ex.
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 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 March 18, 2005 Brian Gorman	FedEx Climbing As long as the global economy keeps growing, FedEx looks like a solid performer.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2003 LouAnn Lofton	FedEx's Shaky Ground A voluntary retirement program takes a bite out of quarterly results as FedEx Ground stumbles.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2004 Seth Jayson	FedEx Delivers More Money The No. 2 shipper keeps rolling up the profits.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx Follies In advance of earnings, analysts expect FedEx to show slight growth in both sales and profits.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2008 Rich Smith	FedEx Flops FedEx shocks the markets, reporting its first quarterly loss in more than a decade.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2004 Seth Jayson	FedEx's Phenomenal Fix-Up The shipper shows good gains in revenues and amazing jumps in profitability.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2004 Brian Gorman	FedEx Delivers for USPS FedEx will take on responsibility for the U.S. Postal Services' Global Express Guaranteed international delivery service in a deal that seals the company's position as a dominant partner for the USPS.
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: 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 July 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resources Still Global Will the professional services firm make it three in a row for earnings misses when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers Wednesday afternoon?
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 June 3, 2008 Rich Smith	FedEx: Great Shipper, Dumb Owner FedEx confirmed it will begin winding down the Kinko's brand this year, phasing out "FedEx Kinko's" in favor of a new name, "FedEx Office."