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The Motley Fool September 2, 2005 Rich Smith	Ciena Sings Same Song This quarter's gross showed a dramatic improvement not just over last year's, but over the previous two quarters of the fiscal year. But the telecom equipment maker is still losing money hand over fist. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Ciena Expands at Its Future's Expense The telecom unwisely boosts earnings by slashing R&D spending. Wise investors need to look further, and ask what the future holds for a company that refuses to invest in it.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena Starts Again The telecom equipment-maker is set to report its first-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Ciena Back in Black Investors, they say everybody loves a winner, and judging from the great amount of attention spawned by Ciena's return to profitability after a five-year hiatus, the saying holds true.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena May Give an Unpleasant Jolt With the networking equipment maker scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter 2008 results on Thursday, what should investors expect?
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena No Longer Burnt The telecom equipment maker has trumped Wall Street's earnings estimates for four quarters running. Twice, it even earned profits in the process. What will the company show when it reports its full-year results and fourth-quarter 2006 numbers?
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 March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FuelCell FuelCell's business may not be improving quickly, but at least it's moving in the right general direction. Investors, take note.
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 December 14, 2007 Rich Smith	Ciena Overshoots, Underpromises Telecom equipment maker Ciena trounced earnings expectations in their Q4 report, but projections didn't measure up.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark Investors, if sales numbers come in weaker than expected for the cabinet maker, that might actually be good news. Just make sure that the sales the company keeps are the high margin ones.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena Still Black The networking specialist is set to report its fiscal second-quarter 2007. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Soothsaying Ciena Is telecom back? Judging from the price performance of telecom equipment maker Ciena's shares, you could be forgiven for thinking it is. Tomorrow we learn whether there's room left to run, as the company reports it second-quarter 2006.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Ciena's Faulty Forecasting A global provider of intelligent network and service solutions, Ciena misses estimates again, as its gross margins collapse.
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 August 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena Soothes The telecom equipment maker returns to Wall Street on Thursday to report its fiscal third-quarter 2006 results. Investors, will its winning streak continue?
The Motley Fool February 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Campbell Soup's On Campbell's is indeed turning its ship around. Rolling gross, operating and net margins have been on the rise sequentially for the last four quarters. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Zale's Tiebreaker Zale's fiscal first-quarter appears to be a seasonally weak one for the company. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2005 Rich Smith	Ciena Slashes, Stock Burns A lesson in how not to stem losses: The telecom equipment maker had some good news for investors yesterday -- and some bad news, too.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cosi-ing Up to Earnings The restaurant operator has spent three years on the public markets and has yet to post a profit. Yet every quarter it narrows its losses a bit more against the previous year's equivalent period. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: 1-800-Flowers in Season In its fiscal first-quarter earnings release back in November, the company promised improved margins later in the year. Investors, don't expect to see the whole bump all at once.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: McCormick Shakes It Up First-quarter earnings results could set this stock to moving either way. Here's what you need to know to make sense of the mix.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Standard American Standard's gross margin, which wasn't impacted at all by restructuring charges, has remained strong -- even growing slightly. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Arrow Nocks The medical products maker is having a tough time of things, margins-wise. Investors, do better days lie ahead?
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 March 8, 2007 Rich Smith	Ciena Colored Red Nearly one week after reporting a rise in quarterly sales, operating profits of $2.8 million, and net profit per share of $0.12, shares of Ciena continued to fall yesterday, bringing the market-cap damage to 18% at last report. Why?
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cisco Sending Cisco's gross margins have been on a long, slow slide over the past 18 months. But until last quarter, the company's operating and net margins had been moving in the opposite direction. What does it mean for investors?
The Motley Fool June 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Progress Reboots After posting 15 straight earnings beats, application infrastructure software maker Progress Software stumbled badly last quarter and needs to reprove itself to the market tomorrow. Investors, take note.
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 March 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Family Dollar for Your Thoughts The deep-discounter's margins remain under pressure, having fallen across the board over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Rofin-Sinar Given the lack of guidance from Wall Street's professional analysts, it's more important than ever for investors to do their own research and familiarize themselves with the industrial laser maker's recent performance.
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 March 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Walgreen Diagnosed Walgreen investors need to keep a close eye on inventory growth to make sure it doesn't outpace sales. Otherwise, those inventories might need to be marked down, or even pitched in the dumpster one day.
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 December 10, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena Shareholders Spooked In advance of earnings, analysts expect Ciena to drop profits by 90%.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cutter to Putt Golfing clothier Cutter & Buck reports its fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings tomorrow morning. For the first time in 18 months, analysts are expecting the firm to report an improvement in earnings versus the year-ago quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Rich Smith	Franco Phones Falter France's Alcatel calls with some bad news for its shareholders.
The Motley Fool June 4, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena Shines, Price Glares In advance of earnings, analysts expect telecom equipment maker Ciena to continue to grow both earnings and revenue.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Is It HOTT in Here? Investors, focus on inventories and free cash flow. That's where you'll find the first evidence of a turnaround, if one exists.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Biomet Flexes The bone specialist is due to release its fiscal third-quarter 2006 report tomorrow morning. Here's what investors need to know to make sense of it.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Searching Autodesk's Drawers The architectural design software firm has continued to lag the S&P over the past 52 weeks, even as Wall Street analysts have warmed to the stock. Here, we dig through the numbers to learn why they're so optimistic about tomorrow's fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings news.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Perry Ellis Reports So far, the Tropical Sportswear International acquisition hasn't done much to help the combined company's margins. That may be about to change -- for both better and worse. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Synopsys The chip manufacturing software company reports fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings after close tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?
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 June 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: G-III's Q1 Clothier G-III Apparel reports first-quarter 2007 earnings results tomorrow. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: The Year in (Princeton) Review The test-prep company's investors has better hope the analyst got it right this time, after overestimating the company's profits in three of the past four quarters.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Palm Harbor Docks The manufactured housing builder aims to build on last quarter's results as it closes out its reporting on fiscal 2006. Palm Harbor reports fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 results after market close on Tuesday. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: JDSU JDS Uniphase's margins have been a train wreck for some time. Even if you ignore the ugly negatives found in the operating and net margin lines, the gross margin picture isn't particularly attractive, either.
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 July 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Laureate Reports The for-profit educator reports fiscal second-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow morning. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?