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The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Acxiom Tilted? The data collator is set to report its fiscal second-quarter 2007 earnings. Here's a review of the company's recent numbers. Investors, take note.
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 May 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Is Acxiom Tilting? The data collator reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers tomorrow after close of market. Investors, here's what you need to know to put them in context.
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 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 January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Simply CNS Analysts believe that CNS will grow at an annualized rate of 18% in the long term. That's tremendous, but perhaps not enough to justify its P/E ratio of 21, or its price-to-free cash flow ratio of 21.
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: Lighting Up Lucent With only 6% projected long-term growth ahead of it, a P/E of 10 and a price-to-free-cash-flow ratio more than twice as large, this stock doesn't look like a buy.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Corinthian's Q2 Report Card The past couple of quarters have not been kind to Corinthian's margins (or its stock, either). Primarily as a result of the firm's weak margins, its stock looks a bit pricey.
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 January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Xerox Hits Stop With 11% growth projected over the next five years, Xerox's price isn't super-expensive, but it's not yet a bargain.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: infoUSA's Parade Investors want to know: Will data collator infoUSA make it three in a row for earnings misses when it reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow morning?
The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Acxiom's Turn The data collator reports its fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings tomorrow after close of market. Investors, here's a review of the company's recent numbers.
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 January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Divining DuPont DuPont sports a trailing P/E of 18, but beware. On a free cash flow basis, this company's positively acidic, with a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 33.
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 February 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Can Champion Prevail? As demand for its manufactured home products builds in the wake of last year's hurricanes, Champion is on the comeback trail. But the company still has a few issues investors need to keep an eye on.
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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Wendy's Order's Up There's a veritable plethora of issues on investor's radar, considering that Wendy's is going through a whole lot of changes in an effort to get its business back on track.
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 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 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 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Arctic Cat Purr? Investors, buried in last quarter's 15% sales rise were twin 25% spikes in inventories and accounts receivable. Let's hope tomorrow's second-quarter report doesn't reveal similar news.
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 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 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Silicon Labs Gels The semiconductor company is up 47% over the past 52 weeks. Can its winning streak continue?
The Motley Fool May 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Watching Washington Post The Washington Post reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Should investors pass on this, or is it a deal?
The Motley Fool July 22, 2005 Rich Smith	An Acxiomatic Bargain Assuming Acxiom feels it paid the right price for Digital Impact, it's not likely to agree to a buyout offer of anything less than three times Acxiom's own sales: $3.6 billion, or roughly $41 a share.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2011	Acxiom Earnings Preview Acxiom will unveil its latest earnings on Wednesday, July 27.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Good, Bad, and No infoUSA The data collator badly missed analyst estimates for its second-quarter 2006 earnings last quarter. When the third-quarter numbers come in shortly, will investors find the missing pennies there?
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Finding First Data Wall Street loves Western Union's parent company, but its margins are a bit of a mixed bag. Investors, take note.
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 September 8, 2011 Shubh Datta	It's Buyback Time at Acxiom Data services company Acxiom is planning to buy back up to $50 million worth of its stock in a move that CEO Scott Howe says is "an appropriate use of cash" at present. But is that all there is to it?
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cemex in the Mix If you're wondering how the Mexican cement giant managed to achieve better net margins than operating margins in the past two trailing-12-month (TTM) periods, you're not alone. Investors, take note.
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 February 15, 2005	P/E Ratio Dynamics There's some logic for investors behind seemingly wacky P/E ratios.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Tom Taulli	Acxiom of Shareholder Evil ValueAct Capital Partners said it plans to abandon its buyout of Acxiom, causing shares of the information-based product development company to tumble.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Timothy M. Otte	Fred's Forecasting Follies The discount retailer posts lower earnings for a fifth consecutive quarter. With Fred's stock trading at a trailing-12-month P/E ratio above 20, I would steer a wide berth around the company.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2005 Rich Smith	Acxiom Collects Data Collector The the data-brokering company bids to make its third acquisition in the past six months. In total, and subject to approval by Digital Impact's shareholders, Acxiom will pay $129 million to acquire 36.9 million shares.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2005 Rich Smith	infoUSA Takes Shares, Goes Home The data-collection company bids the market adieu. Unlike the company's previous bids for wayward Digital Impact, as long as infoUSA shareholders like the price, chances are this deal will go through.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2005 Tom Taulli	ValueAct's "Tough Love" Letter ValueAct is a fund that doesn't sit around. If management falters, it agitates for change.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2005 Rich Smith	Management Wants to Buy American Acxiom competitor infoUSA is on the block, and its own CEO is the one pulling the trigger, offering to take the company private.
The Motley Fool October 24, 2005 Rich Smith	Advance Info on infoUSA Analysts are expecting very good things out of the data-collection company tomorrow. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2011	RightNow Technologies Earnings Preview RightNow Technologies will unveil its latest earnings on Wednesday, July 27.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 William Trent	Technology's Cash Flow Kings Quite a few technology stocks offer the strong free cash flow that many value investors find attractive. Let's take a look at some of them.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2005 Rich Smith	Crunching the Data Crunchers Have the info-theft hackers given us any bargains in the stock market? Here is a bargain evaluation for four data companies recently affected by hackers.
InternetNews June 6, 2005 Paul Shread	Analysts Turn Negative On Micron Analysts have soured on Micron Technology's prospects... The broader market treaded water... Acxiom surged 16% on a buyout offer... etc.