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The Motley Fool
April 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
ServiceMaster Smiles Home maintenance guru ServiceMaster, owner of such well-known brands as American Home Shield, TruGreen, Merry Maids and Terminix, doubled its earnings per share in the first quarter of 2004.   |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2005
Rich Smith |
ServiceMaster Spins It's been a rough couple of trading days for investors in the company behind such brands as Terminix, ChemLawn, and TruGreen, ever since the company reported earnings. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2005
Tim Beyers |
ServiceMaster Serves Cash The exterminator-cum-lawn care company boosts cash flow by $500 million over last year. Good companies with steady cash flows are rarely available at good prices. In that sense, ServiceMaster is about as good as it gets. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Calling ServiceMaster Wall Street wasn't amused when home warrantor, termite zapper, and grass fertilizer ServiceMaster missed earnings estimates back in February. Can this corporate handyman regain the Street's graces when it reports first-quarter 2006 earnings news? Tune in Monday morning to find out. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2004
Rich Smith |
American Standard Still Clogged American Standard reported strong results, but debt remains a factor. |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Service Bundling Sweeps Up ServiceMaster profitably bundles services and pays a healthy 3.5% dividend. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
ServiceMaster Does the Job While the stock hardly promises bottle-rocket performance, its slow, steady growth in both income and dividends can provide a market-matching or market-beating total return for you |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2006
Nathan Parmelee |
Servicemaster's Bad Rap The growth isn't obvious, but the cash flow is there, and the underlying business of this lawn-care, pest-control, and plumbing service company is sound. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2004 |
Understanding "Multiples" Understanding multiples can help you evaluate a stock's attractiveness. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2004
Ben McClure |
Quality Earnings Count Here are three telltale signs of strong earnings. This reporting period, it's worthwhile taking a peek behind the earnings. Here are three telltale signs of earnings "quality" to guide your stock picks. |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ServiceMaster's House Call With its historically weakest first quarter behind it, home, lawn, and wood-destroying insect warrantor is all set to report its historically strongest second-quarter earnings numbers tomorrow morning. Need some clues on how the company's doing? |
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 12, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Serving the Master ServiceMaster reports a weak quarter but still sticks by 2005 guidance. So, is the stock tempting? |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2004
Rich Smith |
Home Depot Fights Back Home Depot goes to the Web to deliver a solid counterpunch to Sears. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Another Stock Evaluation Tool The earnings yield can help determine the fair value of a stock's price. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2004
J. Graham |
Earnings Madness Quarterly corporate earnings dominate the financial media. Earnings releases send investors into a flurry of buying the winners and selling the losers. But you should be looking beyond what you see in the news. |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2006
Jeremy MacNealy |
ServiceMaster Still Serviceable? Why is the market shunning this residential and commercial services company? Here is a closer look. |
CRM
June 2004
Emmy Favilla |
CRM in Action: Turn Agents Into Experts If the agents ask the right questions, customers feel more comfortable. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2010
Susan H. Nadler |
Mind the GAAP What advantages does the income-tax basis accounting method offer? |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2004
Bill Mann |
ServiceMaster Looks Clean to Berkshire The purchase of ServiceMaster and Comcast, along with Pier 1, seems to fit into a pattern of Berkshire Hathaway stock purchases of the last few years -- all seeming to focus on the home. |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2007
Toby Shute |
The Definitive Boring Stock: Grass Edition Investing isn't supposed to be thrilling. Would your portfolio be greener if you opted to invest in a lawn-care company, such as Scotts? |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Salim Haji |
Gleaning Insights From Berkshire Other than Comcast and ServiceMaster additions, it's been a quiet quarter of trading for this portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Religious Revenues Beyond Mel Gibson's movie, Christianity is big business in America. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2009
Mike Pienciak |
These Losses Could Mean Gains Impairment charges can eventually deliver an upside. Once assets are restated at lower present values, they don't get written back up under U.S. accounting rules when the good times start to roll again. |
