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The Motley Fool April 16, 2004 Rich Smith	DoubleClick's Pinched Penny Rounding earnings per share can lay traps for unwary investors. Online advertiser DoubleClick becomes a good lesson in why it is best to think of those little ticker symbols scrolling by as pieces of companies rather than little ticker symbols.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 Jeff Hwang	On Cree's Buyback Cree, the semiconductor materials maker, has recently bought back around 4 million shares and with its most recent expansion authorizes the repurchase of 5.1 million additional shares.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 Paul Elliott	An Investor's Worst Enemy As an investor, few things assure you'll go hungry like a board of directors cutting the pie into more and more pieces and handing them out. Excessive share dilution is precisely that.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Rich Smith	Intuit-ion Wins Again The tax prep software maker outdoes its own predictions. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2006	On Employee Stock Options Companies often offer stock options to employees. Where does the stock in these options come from? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Jeff Hwang	A Costly Tech Buyback Selling options low and buying back shares high destroy Texas Instruments' value.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2004 Brian Gorman	Applied Materials' Buyback The stock repurchase program sounds impressive, but has yet to add shareholder value.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec's Trojan Buyback The software company is raking in the cash and distributing it to insiders.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2004 Jeff Hwang	On XM's Share Offering Insider selling after a run-up is cause for reevaluation of XM's stock price.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2005 Rich Smith	When Cars Outrun Computers Let me make one thing perfectly clear: I do think CarMax is overpriced today. But it's the company's strong fundamentals that got the company's stock price up to where it is today. As for how Xybernaut got as pricey as it still is -- I haven't a clue.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Bill Mann	Cisco Might Pay Dividend John Chambers hints that he might return some cash to shareholders. That would be great.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2004 Rich Smith	Korn Ferries Profits The headhunter's turnaround gathers steam. A year ago, the company was bleeding red ink and lost its shareholders $9.4 million, the first quarter of 2005 saw a complete reversal of those losses for an $8.4 million gain.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2004 Selena Maranjian	How Companies Go Public A basic description of how companies raise money through an initial public offering, or IPO.
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Robert Barker	Why Microsoft's Cash Makes It A Bargain Is it safe to buy Microsoft yet? It's certainly an odd thing to ask about a stock that's up 34,186% since its 1986 debut.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 Rich Smith	When Red Flags Are Waving More lessons from the wearable computer maker Xybernaut's stock blowup.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2004 Jeff Hwang	RIM Cashes In Share offering may indicate richly valued shares, but also a quest for long-term value.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2004 Rich Smith	Xybernaut's Hatchet Job Cool products can make for bad investments. The wearable computer maker's stock still looks overvalued at $1.15.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Lucent Back in Black Company turns full-year-profitable, but dilution runs rampant.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison	Midway's Not Suffering Strong sales of a new horror title boost the struggling video game maker.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Jim Mueller	Sonic Goes Dutch at the Drive-In A modified Dutch tender offer will reduce outstanding shares and increase value to shareholders of the drive-in burger purveyor.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2005 Rich Smith	Requiem for Xybernaut A lot of individual investors got burned by the wearable computer-maker last week, and they may be tempted to just sell out now and forget Xybernaut ever existed. That would be a mistake.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2007 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: The Knot Bear With a secondary offering, expensive acquisitions, heavy dilution, and no dividend to speak of, The Knot has simply not shown itself worthy of a long-term commitment of capital.
The Motley Fool June 4, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec's Bizarre Swap After peeling back layers of buybacks, its shareholder dilution is more historic than prospective.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2005 Rich Smith	Symantec vs. the Taxman If Symantec ultimately had to ante up 51.8% to the taxman, shareholders can take some consolation in the fact that the company made a whole bunch of money first.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004	Where Stock Options Come From Learn the pros and cons of these controversial beasts.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Sylvan's Financial Maze Sylvan Learning Systems (Nasdaq: SLVN) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2003 earnings on Thursday -- and the company could hardly have made its report more confusing if it had tried.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2005 Rich Smith	But It Doesn't Have Any Debt! Xybernaut's situation points to the myth of the clean balance sheet. It's a painful process, but by this time, investors have suffered so much hurt from the company's crashing share price that the incremental pain of investigating what went wrong is insignificant.
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Gene G. Marcial	More Dentists Are Drilling With Biolase Biolase makes laser dental drills quieter and less painful. The stock was knocked down because of an accounting restatement, but some pros think it is a good buy.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec's Simply Terrific The Internet security company continues to post impressive numbers. Investors will want to continue to monitor Symantec's performance, and to pay special attention when (or if) the dilution rate appears to slow later this year.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Mamma.com Mia! This little search engine makes money like the big boys.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Xybernaut Strikes Out The wearable computer company misses all three press release pitches.
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Stock Options: The End of the Affair? For whatever reasons, more and more companies seem to be backing off of their love affair with options.
Entrepreneur February 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson	Good Funds Gone Bad Should you dump shares of fund companies implicated in scandals?
The Motley Fool April 22, 2004 Rich Smith	Kensey Nash Heals Fast Four months was all it took to rejuvinate biomedical products maker Kensey Nash's profit machine.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Bill Mann	Dual-Class Shares, Second-Class Investors There is a separate, non-traded class of stock that receives 10 votes for each common stock. This means that the non-traded stock shareholders, including the CEO, can dictate terms at the company far in excess of their financial stake.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2005 Rich Smith	"Oops" With a Capital O(ne) A good year ends with a bad quarter for Capital One.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2006 Jim Mueller	Sportsman's Guide Shapes Up Management for the Internet outdoor gear and golf-equipment provider has been doing everything right recently for the company and its shareholders. The stock has risen 60% in the last year, much to shareholders' delight.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Gene G. Marcial	A Net Stock Rises from the Ashes Only the stout-hearted might want to touch shares of 24/7 Real Media, whose stock collapsed from a high of 64 in January, 1999, to 9 cents on Sept. 21, 2001. It has since bounced to 1.81 on July 16, 2003 -- thanks to the runup in tech and Internet stocks.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Fulfilling Float for Lakeland At the protective gear manufacturer, net profits are up, per share profits are down, share count is up.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2005 Jim Mueller	Sportsman's Guide's Red Flag How many stock options is the outdoor gear seller giving out? And it wants more? Here's an investor's red flag.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Jeff Hwang	Is Midway Back? Yesterday, Midway Games said it would raise $82.3 million by selling 11.35 million shares at $7.25 apiece
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The Motley Fool February 17, 2004 Alyce Lomax	First Health's Second Go Despite a November warning, the company is back on track.
CFO Kris Frieswick	Shareholder Management Odd-lot shareholder programs -- in which companies offer shareholders with fewer than 100 shares a chance to either sell them at discounted fees or buy enough to hit 100 -- are making a comeback.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Selena Maranjian	When Too Much Cash Is Bad Even though cash allows companies to act quickly, there are other things they can do with their cash to be more productive.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2004 Mathew Emmert	Banking on Small Banks Here are two small banks with big promise. Their customer-friendly ways have produced shareholder-friendly results, and diversified portfolios should take notice.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2005 Rich Smith	It's Warp Speed for Kforce Temp firm posts strong revenue growth, stronger earnings, rampant dilution.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2005 Rich Smith	Stop! Thief! Is it ever a good thing when management steals your stake? Confusion abounds when talk turns to the concept of stock dilution. So here are the three primary sources of stock dilution so you know how to protect your investments from the very companies you're investing in.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2004 Rich Smith	Valuing a Profitless Company After a price crash and a price rebound, is Xybernaut now fairly valued?