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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 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 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 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 March 31, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Soup's on at Smith & Wollensky Over the past 18 months, the steakhouse has managed to grow its rolling gross margins a bit, to double its minuscule operating margin and shrink its net loss as a percentage of revenues. 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 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 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 May 27, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
Lone Star Stakeout The restaurant operator is bemoaning beef prices, but same-store sales are also a concern. |
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 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 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 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 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 30, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: A Glance at Google Google's margins are a thing of beauty, and the upward trend they're on is even more stunning. Unfortunately, the valuation looks pretty darn amazing, too. The stock sells for 96 times trailing earnings and an only slightly more reasonable 84 times trailing free cash flow. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Williams-Sonoma Sounds Off The home furnisher's margin improvements won't set any speed records, but they're definitely moving in the right direction. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Redrawing Borders The bookstore's fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 financial performance will enter the history books, and we can look forward to a new fiscal year -- hopefully, one in which the company's stock price doesn't fall in inverse proportion to the S&P's rise. |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Talk America Talks Talk America's flat to declining sales, plus fewer profits earned on those sales, is not a recipe for earnings growth. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Opening the Tupperware If good news is reported, it could result in raised guidance for next quarter and a consequent boost to the stock price. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Calling Mobile Telesystems Historically a superior performer, MTS's stock price has underperformed the S&P 500 over the past year as revenue growth slows and margins begin to slide. Investors, take note. |
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 February 3, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Rent-A-Center Returns Here's what you need to know to make sense of the market's reaction to the company's impending fourth-quarter and full-year earnings release. |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Blackboard in Session Blackboard's margins are nothing short of astounding, and the rate at which it is growing those margins leaves "astounding" in the dust. The downside to a record like that: Investors likely expect an earnings beat on Monday. |
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 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 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 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 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 December 15, 2005 Nathan Parmelee |
Is This Star Fading? Lone Star Steakhouse's sales continue their slow decline. Investors, is it time to sell? |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Cambridge Display Shows Off? Will there be anything to cheer about on Monday when cutting-edge display maker Cambridge Display reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 earnings. Investors, take note. |
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 January 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Eastman Kodak Yesterday was a very good day for the company's shareholders. While the Dow rose a little under 1%, shares of film pharaoh Kodak leapt nearly 4%. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: As American Axle Turns With sales flat to declining, investors don't want to see either inventories or A/R rise in comparison with their year-ago numbers (as, sadly, they have been doing recently.) |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2004 Matthew Richey |
Second Chance on Lone Star Even good businesses run into occasional slumps. That's the situation with Lone Star Steakhouse, as it temporarily chokes on record-high beef prices. But the stock's 35% swoon over the past four months puts it back into value territory again. |
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 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 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 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 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 22, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Pushing the Limited Judging from the rolling margins, the company appears to be slipping, becoming less profitable over time, and thus unlikely to turn in a profits improvement three times better than its sales improvement. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2004 Nathan Slaughter |
Outback's Earnings Served Cold The steak house has more to offer diners than investors. |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Reading Brinker's Menu Brinker's bottom-line performance still looks pretty solid. Still, gross margins appear to be facing pressure, and the company hasn't been able to cut operating costs sufficiently to offset them. Investors, beware. |
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: 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 January 26, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Black & Decker Investors, keep an eye on the Power Tools and Accessories division. So long as it does well, Black & Decker as a whole will do just fine. |
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 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 March 27, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Donning the Red Hat Here is further evidence of why investors love software companies. Red Hat today is 66% more profitable than it was a year and a half ago on an operating basis, and 24% more profitable on a net basis. |
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 July 9, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lone Star's Medium-Rare Disease Given the higher cost of sales, the fact that the casual steakhouses are reluctant to pass these increases on to the consumer clearly indicates that the chains feel vulnerable. So be a picky eater in this sector. |