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The Motley Fool May 26, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Lazy La-Z-Boy The recliner specialist reclines after a soft close to its fiscal year.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	A Well-Assembled La-Z-Boy La-Z-Boy turns in a healthy quarter of free cash flow. Investors get a company with a solid balance sheet, a commitment to reducing its debt, share repurchases, and a juicy 3.2% dividend yield.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Gets a Whippin' La-Z-Boys sales, like its trademark chairs, are soft. Latest quarterly reports show a 13% decline in sales, which management blames on the continuing challenging furniture environment.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax	A La-Z-Boy Letdown The company lowered third-quarter guidance down to $0.11 to $0.14 per share; the consensus estimate was previously $0.25 per share. Given the variables, it's no wonder investors soured on the stock today.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2004 Matt Logan	La-Z-Boy's Sales Recline Remain seated: These earnings are nothing to get up for.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Unstuffing La-Z-Boy The furniture make disappointed investors this week. In response, shareholders dropped the stock 4% after the earnings report. Was it an over-reaction?
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Unstuffed In advance of earnings reports, analysts expect the furniture manufacturer to show a slide in sales and a slight rise in profits.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Gets Busy The furniture maker announced a further round of restructuring aimed at aligning its production capacity with the tastes of the American consumer. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Another Dent at Hooker Furniture Inventory levels and sliding sales of domestically produced furniture continue to plague the company. Should prices dip back toward the lows of a couple months ago, the shares would offer a very attractive opportunity to investors who can afford to be patient.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Should You Buy La-Z-Boy Now? La-Z-Boy reports a swing from losses to profits.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Rich Duprey	A Threadbare Furniture Market Investors, the retail furniture industry is apparently having the stuffing beat out of it these days. A convergence of trends is making the industry look a little ragged.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Latches on to Profits Hooker Furniture decides that free trade is a good thing after all.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Rich Smith	A Prescient but La-Z-Boy Enough with playing Wall Street's earnings game. La-Z-Boy won; Wall Street lost; case closed. What about the big picture?
The Motley Fool June 7, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	La-Z-Boy Lounging Around Not all great brands are great, or even good, businesses. Investors, that would seem to be the case for this furniture-maker.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Ethan Allen Sees Green Will new homeowners get home-furnishing-happy? Ethan Allen hopes so.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2004 Seth Jayson	Mixed Bag for Bassett With its restructuring mostly over, Bassett Furniture Industries needs to focus on execution now.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Rich Smith	Earnings Twofer: Hooker & La-Z-Boy Here is a look at the earnings reports from these two furniture companies to see whether the whole of their news makes up more than the sum of its parts. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	La-Z-Boy's Hazy Ploy The recliner specialist's stock is trading for half of what it peaked at two years ago.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Unstuffed The CEO of La-Z-Boy comments on the company's reasonable profit margins, looking for anything he can to make this quarter look good.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Overachieving La-Z-Boy The furniture maker is set to report its quarterly earnings estimates. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2005 Rich Smith	The Furniture's Piling Up What's with the inventories at furniture makers? Five of the major furniture makers are seeing inventory growth outstripping sales growth by wide margins. Investors need to keep an eye on this trend.
The Motley Fool October 12, 2004 Phil Wohl	Stanley Furniture Gets Comfortable The wood furniture maker uses a niche strategy to work around industry problems. Shares are trading at an attractive 14 times the 2004 earnings estimate of $3.12 per share, which is at a steep discount relative to the 30%-plus growth expected this year.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Skewers Chinese Partners Hooker Furniture accuses its own Chinese partners of "dumping" product on the U.S. market.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Mike Cianciolo	Bassett Builds Strong Q2 The furniture manufacturer posts solid second-quarter results. The strategy of selling affordable furniture that is ready for delivery within 30 days continues to generate the most significant growth for Bassett.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Uncomfortable Furniture Brands The furniture company is set to release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2005 Seth Jayson	In Bed With a New Marketer Select Comfort brings in a La-Z-Boy executive as chief marketing officer. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Stanley's Furniture Piles Up Inventory levels at Stanley Furniture are still a concern. It's not a pretty result for this quarter, but Stanley is not dearly priced.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	La-Z-Boy's Uncomfortable Warnings Foam shortages prompt cautions about falling sales and earnings. Unfortunately, the bad news doesn't end there for La-Z-Boy.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker's Free Trade U-Turn The furniture maker outsources a lot of its furniture production to China, then signed on to an American funiture manufacturers complaint about China selling bedroom furniture too cheaply in the US. Chine responds by threatening slow production of other goods.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Bassett Is No Dog Despite being in the furniture business, Bassett is holding its own and paying a decent dividend.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2010 David Meier	Hooker Furniture: Deflation Fighter Compared to competitors La-Z-Boy and Furniture Brands, Hooker Furniture is better prepared to handle a deflationary environment.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2009 Daniel Harrison	What a Bunch of La-Z-Boys The furniture retailer is using the same tricks it always has -- even though history shows they don't work.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	What's Hounding Bassett? The furniture company is retooling to take advantage of lower-cost imports, but will that be enough to kick-start growth? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Rich Smith	Hooker Goes on a Diet This furniture retailer is a lean, mean cash flow machine.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Ethan Allen Looks Solid Is the furniture industry turning around, or is Ethan Allen's success unique? Breaking with tradition, the furniture maker stated that it will achieve 8.5% earning growth in its third quarter, and it agrees with analysts estimates for its fourth quarter.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2008 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Says Goodbye to 2008 Furniture manufacturer La-Z-Boy reported its Q4 and full fiscal year numbers on Monday, and the news was not good.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Ethan Allen Jilts the Jinx Year-over-year the furniture retailer reports a sales increase of 2.4%, despite uncertainty with respect to the economy and an overall softer retail environment.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Lags Behind When the furniture company reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 numbers, will they make it three-in-a-row for earnings misses?
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lifesaving La-Z-Boy? The furniture company is set to report its third-quarter 2006 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Out for a Stroll There's no question that La-Z-Boy is going through a rough patch now. What should be more important for long-term investors, however, is how the company deals with this difficult situation.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Seth Jayson	No Surprise at Stanley Sales and earnings are flagging at furniture maker, but there might be a decent value here.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Stanley Sneezes After Stanley Furniture announced declining sales, shares opened 9% lower before paring their losses to just 4%. Other furniture stocks followed.
The Motley Fool August 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Tomorrow, the furniture maker tries to get back on track when it reports its fiscal first-quarter 2006 numbers after market-close. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Takes a Break After leaping more than 5% in anticipation of a strong quarterly report to end its fiscal year, shares of the upholstered furniture maker gave back a bit recently.
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Christopher Palmeri	La-Z-Boy: Up From Naugahyde Its stylish line, by designer Todd Oldham, may just banish the stodgy image that La-Z-Boy has.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2005 Rich Smith	Street Spurns Stanley's Sweet Talk Furniture maker's solid quarterly numbers came with some baggage that may have unnerved potential suitors.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2005 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy's Latest, Greatest Excuse The company reports a good quarter but invents a whopper of an excuse for falling shy of expectations. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Rex Moore	One Stock to Get Hooked On Hooker Furniture is a family-run operation that was founded back in 1924, and it has all the things you like to see in a business, including a modest valuation.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	One for the Couch Potato Last night, Hooker Furniture announced its 10th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales growth as margins widened to produce even stronger earnings.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 Rich Smith	Furniture Brands: Some Reassembly Required Bad as it seems, if you look closer, Furniture Brands quarterly report wasn't so bad.