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The Motley Fool February 8, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: K-Swiss Ready to Run The athletic shoe manufacturer's performance may be super, but its valuation remains unexceptional.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Sina Debarks Although Sina officially sports a pricey P/E of 28, the company currently trades for just a bit over 20 times its trailing free cash flow. That's not at all an unreasonable price to pay if the firm can meet analyst estimates of 19% long-term profits growth.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Monitoring the Citi Trends Citi Trends has been public for less than a year. Still, five quarters should be enough to give investors an idea as to where the company is trending.
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 February 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: BJ's Delivers Thanks to a 20% run-up in share price over the past three months, BJ's shares are starting to look pricey. The company has some work to do if it's to grow into its valuation.
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 February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Kforce Go Hire? When you look at the valuation here, investors don't seem to be rewarding the stock for its success. It suggests that investors don't believe this surge in U.S. employment will last.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Autodesk Opens Its Drawers Autodesk sports a premium multiple even after the recent share price weakness: 30 times trailing earnings.
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 January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Boning Up on Zimmer With its margins as high as they are, and rising as steadily as they are, you won't be surprised to hear that the medical technology company's shares command premium prices.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ryder Dismounts This company has consistently beaten expectations in each of the past 20 quarters. Will it do so again in tomorrow's fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2005 release? Investors, take note.
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 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 February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: LCA-Vision Checkup The 30% growth that analysts expect to see, although great objectively, still makes LCA's stock look expensive relative to its recent growth.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: What's Brewing in Boston? Boston Beer has boosted its gross margins by 100 basis points over the past 18 months, kept its operating margins steady (after recovering from an initial wobble), and grown its net (likewise). Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Caterpillar Purrs The secret to Cat's net profit success: margins. Despite high energy and raw materials costs, Cat has managed to keep its gross margin deterioration to a minimum. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Nile's Tide Comes In The Internet jeweler's gross margins have been on a steady, if shallow, decline for the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: ADAM & Earnings' Eve With margins like these, you'd think someone would be interested in purchasing the online health information publisher's stock. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Netflix in the Mail Reviewing the company's recent performance, we see a pronounced trend toward lower gross margins, both sequentially and year over year. By any traditional valuation method, Netflix looks grossly overpriced.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Batter Up at Dick's Even if the sporting goods retailer meets expectations of 20% long-term earnings growth, the price looks pretty rich for investors.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Qualcomm Calling High quality rarely comes without a high price tag. If you want to own a piece of Qualcomm, it's going to cost you 37 times earnings (and the same multiple to free cash flow) to do it.
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 March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: TLC for TLC Vision? Will investors receive fourth-quarter and full-year numbers with tender loving care, or will they give the stock the boot? Whichever way it goes, here are the facts you'll need to evaluate whether Mr. Market's reaction is correct.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Manpower Powers Up Priced at a 19 times multiple to earnings and 20 times free cash flow, Manpower isn't the cheapest company on the planet. Still, it might be worth a look to investors.
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Snap-On The company's cash from operations has been on a general downward trend for quite a while. Investors need to look for signs that this trend has truly reversed before jumping in.
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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Perpetual Good Moody's With Moody's currently trading for a 2.3 price to earnings to growth (PEG) ratio, it's easy to understand the stock's hold rating. That kind of pricing deserves some skepticism.
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 February 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Red Hot Kohl's Kohl's margins have been marching upwards across the board. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Soup's On at Darden Great as this restaurant operator is, with future growth projected to average closer to 12% per annum, the shares look rather pricey.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: TALX Talks This provider of payroll-related and human resources services is a primo business trading at premium prices. Much of its stock price depends on the firm continuing to beat expectations and accelerate its margin growth.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Weyerhaeuser Sprouts When Weyerhaeuser beats analyst estimates, it usually does so by a large margin, but its misses are pretty sizable, too. Which way will it go? Investors, take note.
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 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 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 January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: CheckFree Clears The more time that goes by and the bigger its base of business gets, the stronger CheckFree's margins are becoming. This company is truly a force to be reckoned with. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Fetching REX The last few quarters have been good to specialty electronics retailer REX Stores, which has taken maximum advantage of federal tax breaks for investments in synthetic fuels. But is that the full story? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: ITT's Q4 Report Card Barring some unforeseen disaster, it's practically guaranteed that trailing twelve months operating and net margins will continue their upward trend over at least the next few quarters. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Pricing Cost Plus How do rising sales turn into falling profits? Sadly, that's exactly what's going on at Cost Plus. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Colgate-Palmolive in the Wash Will the stock's winning streak continue? Wednesday's fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results could factor heavily in answering that question.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cummins Roars Despite skyrocketing raw materials and energy costs the company has improved gross margins slightly in recent quarters. Investors, what's not to like here?
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cheesecake, Anyone? Cheesecake Factory's meals may not be overpriced, but its stock sure is looking that way.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: TransAct Investors, if you thought TransAct looked expensive at a trailing P/E of 47, look again. At a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 80, it's doubly so.
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 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 January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: DeVry's Q2 Report Card The for-profit educator's recent success is mainly priced into the stock -- even though it's still uncertain.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hershey Unwraps Focus on the margins -- there investors will find the proof of how well Hershey is managing to offset its raw materials costs.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Winnebago Pulls In High raw-material and energy costs continue to squeeze Winnebago's gross margins, which have fallen steadily over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Coventry Calling Coventry Health Care is now the envy of the HMO world, besting the last reported margins of its competitors. Investors, take note.
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.