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The Motley Fool July 10, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Right Time at Ruby Tuesday On Tuesday, the restaurant chain will announce earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006. Investors, here's what's expected of this ambitiously growing company.
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 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: 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 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 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 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 July 19, 2011	Ruby Tuesday Earnings Preview Ruby Tuesday will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, July 21.
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 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Best Buy Opens Early Best Buy is expecting to report same-store sales gains of 6% to 7% in the fourth quarter, and "strong" revenue growth overall. In contrast to its customers, Best Buy says it's been keeping tight reins on its own spending.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	A Chipped Ruby Ruby Tuesday still struggles to stand apart and produce meaningful growth. For now, it may be best to pass on this stock.
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 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 April 9, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: No Goodbye to Ruby Tuesday The casual dining restaurant appears to have a full plate for its 2007 third-quarter earnings report, which rolls out shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
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 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 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 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ventiv's Checkup The medical "solutions" outsourcer's growth has found its way down into the operating margins, fortuitously timed tax credits have given the net margin a boost. Investors, take note.
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 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 March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: GameStop Starts With the exception of last quarter, GameStop's rolling gross margin has been trending downwards for the past 18 months, as have its operating and net margins. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark Tomorrow, the cabinetmaker reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects? Want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool March 30, 2006 Jeremy MacNealy	A Shiny New Ruby Ruby Tuesday's latest results show that it's new and improved. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Clicking Those Ruby Slippers The casual dining operator clears the table in its fiscal third quarter.
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 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 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 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 May 11, 2005 David Meier	O'Charley's Needs Some Luck The restaurant chain's stock falls on lowered expectations.
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 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Change for a Dollar Tree Dollar Tree reported three weeks ago that its sales grew 9%, beating both the company's own reiterated guidance of a month ago and analyst forecasts. Profits, however, could still underperform. Investors, take note.
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 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx in the Mail FedEx is a superior company, and analysts set superior expectations for it. There's always a danger when Wall Street sets its expectations too high and investors believe them.
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 April 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Delta & Pine Land When considering this farming company's margin trends, it's best for investors to focus on rolling gross and operating margins and be leery of drawing conclusions from the net results.
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 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 July 25, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: The Buzz on Applebee's The casual dining restaurant will announce earnings for the second quarter tomorrow. Will revenues be up and earnings down, as projected, or will there be some surprises? Investors, take note.
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 October 5, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Less of a Shine on Ruby Tuesday The restaurant chain meets Q1 earnings, but lowers guidance for fiscal 2005.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Homing In on Honeywell The mega-conglomerate reports its third quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow morning. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
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 July 8, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Ruby Tuesday stock has quadrupled this year. Rival chains can't match that kind of price action, but they're no slackers, either.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Columbus McKinnon Investors, find out what's expected from the material handling products manufacturer before the company reports earnings on Tuesday.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Good Buy, Ruby Tuesday Casual dining's forgotten player is making some memorable moves.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Oxford Commences With Oxford's goods selling like hotcakes (albeit not terribly profitable hotcakes), the miniscule rise in inventories shouldn't bother investors.
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 April 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: K-Swiss at the Gate The shoemaker reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Dean Foods Dean's gross margins ebbed and flowed over the course of the past 18 months. At last report, they wound up right back where they started, averaging about 24.3%. Investors, take note.