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The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Marine Products The boat maker reports its second-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool July 19, 2005 Rich Smith	Easy Chairs, Hard Lessons Hooker loses to Stanley as a small-cap stock recommendation.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Hooker Furniture Marked Down Bad news and more bad news for the embattled furniture maker. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2005 Rich Smith	Cave-In at Mine Safety Company "misses estimates," stock plunges 15%. But the number investors need to watch is inventories.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2005 Rich Smith	Marine Products Runs Aground Marine Products reported Q1 sales that were up 17% over the year-ago quarter. Profits rose even faster, to $0.17 per diluted share -- a 21% year-on-year increase. But none of that impressed investors. So let's examine what red flags they might have fixated on.
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Marine Products Hard to Sink Lousy numbers threaten, but fail to sink the stock. What does it mean to investors?
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 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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Beautiful FormFactor Packaging company's free cash flow is in the bag. The stock is already up 21%, but investors need to be wary of danger signs. Yellow flags are still waving over inventories and accounts receivable.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Takes a Hit Restructuring costs at the furniture maker crimp quarterly profits.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Marine Products' Shallow Buyback The boat maker gets ready to report its third-quarter 2006 earnings. Investors, can the company break its losing streak?
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 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 March 31, 2005 Rich Duprey	Hooker Furniture Gets Scratched Furniture maker misses estimates on weak domestic sales and flat future. But there may yet be opportunities to get Hooker at even better prices.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2005 Rich Smith	Furniture Maker in the Hot Seat Hooker Furniture has some bright spots, but it's not out of the woods yet. The furniture maker missed earning estimates again and suffered a year-over-year quarterly earnings decline.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 Rich Smith	Boat Makers See Shoals Recent results should have torpedoed the stock, but Marine Products is floating higher than expected today.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2004 Rich Smith	Cutter Bucks Up The turnaround story continues for the apparel maker Cutter & Buck. The company should end fiscal 2005 with about $13.4 million in free cash flow, giving it an enterprise value-to-FCF ratio of about 8.5 at its current price
The Motley Fool January 19, 2005 Seth Jayson	Hooker Furniture Getting Bloated? Great results bode well for investors, but keep an eye on inventories.
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 May 31, 2005 Seth Jayson	Hooker Loses Respect on Street The furniture maker's shares have been punished in the wake of a sales slowdown. Is the pain over?
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Reading Stanley's Signals The furniture maker is holding its own in a slowing industry. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2005 Jeremy MacNealy	Is It Time to Cozy Up to Stanley? Stanley Furniture sees a tougher sales environment ahead. A clean balance sheet, a nice dividend, and leadership that is doing a good job of keeping inventory levels in check are all reasons for investors to have some peace of mind.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Rich Smith	What Language Is Hooker Speaking? A lot of the things furniture manufacturer Hooker said in their second quarterly report don't mean what Hooker seems to think they mean.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Smooth Sailing for Marine Products This small maker of pleasure boats continues to glide along under the radar of most of Wall Street.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Rich Smith	FARO Less Frightening FARO no longer appears to be the superior performer it was, but it does appear to be heading back in the right general direction. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Furniture Branded a Likely Loser For the first time in its entire reporting history, Furniture Brands is expected to post a loss. Was its second-quarter really that bad? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2005	Foolish Fundamentals: Inventory Big gains in inventory aren't necessarily bad, but for investors they always bear watching.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Rich Smith	Hooker's Sales U-Turn The furniture maker predicts declining sales next quarter. Hooker's stock currently trades for $15 a stub, making for the easiest of P/E ratio calculations: Hooker trades at a P/E of 10.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2005 Rich Smith	3 Hidden Gems for the Taking Get these stocks before they're hot on Wall Street: Radyne ComStream... Deckers... Portfolio Recovery Associates...
The Motley Fool February 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Boat Makers Batten Down For boat builders, it was a miserable, stormy fourth quarter. Both the makers and the retailers agree: Times are tough in the boat industry. But one boat seller sees the seas calming.
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 July 28, 2005 Rich Smith	Strike Three for Hooker The furniture manufacturer announced that that it will close its third plant in as many years. Investors are less than eager to stick around to see how its latest plan plays out.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: New & Improved Hooker The furniture company is set to report its first-quarter 2008 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.
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 February 11, 2004 Matt Logan	La-Z-Boy's Sales Recline Remain seated: These earnings are nothing to get up for.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Clear Sailing for Lakeland? Judging from the firm's performance over the past year and a half, perhaps investors should give Lakeland the benefit of the doubt here for the time being.
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 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 April 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Stanley Survives Though others in this space have suffered a downgrade, it seems investors have enough confidence in the first quarter 2006 earnings news that Stanley Furniture will report tomorrow that they're willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt here.
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 November 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Way Too Much Furniture Brands Inventories grow far too fast at this furniture furnisher. Investors, take note.
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 August 23, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Cost Plus Piles Up the Inventory Cost Plus needs to get its balance sheet under control. The underlying company does have potential and the shares are not expensive.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Rich Smith	Silicon Labs Goes Boom! This time, in a good way. In an explosion of investor enthusiasm, the chip maker's stock rocketed up 21% in the after-hours market, cresting the day at $33 and change.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Hooker's Stinky Perfume If third-quarter profits were so good, why is the stock down 2%?
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Columbia Calling Even if sales rise a bit, as expected, investors need to watch those inventory levels closely; make sure the company isn't swamping itself in unwanted goods that it will need to unload at cut-rate prices in the future.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Unearthing a Bargain? Mine Safety has a strong quarter but misses analysts' earnings projections. The stock is now trading at 21 times trailing earnings.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2005 Seth Jayson	New York & Co.'s Unsightly Bulge The women's clothier steps up to profits, but there's something worth watching. New York and Co. shareholders should remain in wait-and-see mode.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2007 Rich Smith	Hooker Punished Optimism over the firm's new business model -- importing furniture made by others -- and the high-margin sales it offered gave way to disappointment when those margins failed to make an appearance in the first quarter of a new and improved fiscal 2008. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Rogers' Remorse Oversupplies make for underperformance. The company, which makes a variety of products, ranging from silicon foams for shoe insoles to printed circuit board laminates used in cell phones, slashed its fourth quarter earnings guidance. Its stock fell 4.3% on the news.