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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 March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Pegasystems Ready to Ride? Pegasystems' business is more profitable than it appears. Investors, keep an eye on free cash flow.
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: A Fitting Day at Joe's Rolling gross, operating, and net margins have all climbed upwards over the last 18 months for the clothing retailer Jos. A. Bank. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Superior Rolls In Analyst expectations of continued bad news from aluminum wheel maker Superior Industries should surprise no one. However, as long as it can keep some positive cash flow going, there's no reason to consign this company to the scrap heap.
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 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 April 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Fun Time for Hasbro Hasbro breaks out its latest batch of profits news bright and early Monday morning. Seeing them, some investors will cry, and others will squeal with glee. Here are a few facts and figures to help you decide how to react.
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 April 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Testing Sharper's Edge Kudos are due to Sharper Image's management for cutting its own paychecks while its shareholders are suffering. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ford's Tough Quarter Over the last year, despite turning in results sharply lower than in the year-previous periods, the automaker has beaten consensus estimates in three out of four quarters. Can Ford prove the critics wrong yet again when it reports its first-quarter 2006 numbers?
The Motley Fool April 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cummins Roars Again Diesel-engine maker Cummins reports its first-quarter 2006 earnings numbers tomorrow, and if the company proves Wall Street wrong, the applause could be deafening. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Triangulating Garmin Garmin's rolling margins don't seem to be revealing much of a trend in its business. One quarter they're up, the next they're down. If analysts are correct in their estimates, the fourth-quarter will turn out to be a down quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hasbro Hits Play Over the past two quarters, the company's inventories have grown almost in lockstep with sales growth -- no danger signs there. Investors, take note.
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 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 March 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: CarMax Revs Up This stock's not much of a hot rod. The company goes from 2.2% net margins to -- 2.2% net margins in 18 months. But you can't blame CarMax for this.
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 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 April 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Boeing Approaches Humongous companies like Boeing are tricky beasts to analyze -- simply because there are so many moving parts that it's hard to keep a firm grasp on where the enterprise as a whole is headed. But investors, there's a trend afoot here -- and it looks like a good one.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Pier 1 Docks Over the past 18 months, the retailer's gross, operating and net margins have all collapsed -- and the culmination of this collapse is contained in analysts' prediction of just a penny's worth of profits when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings.
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 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Checking TurboChef's Oven Operating and net margins, while strong during the end of last year, have both turned negative recently. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Early News on Eaton Is danger beginning to build on the diversified industrial manufacturer's manufacturer's balance sheet? Investors, take note.
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 April 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Bed Bath & Beyond Share-count meanderings aside, Bed Bath & Beyond runs a great business, and it keeps getting better. 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 May 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Serving Williams-Sonoma The high-class home furnisher reports first-quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
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 April 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ingersoll-Rand Powers Up The diversified industrial manufacturer reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see -- and do you want to know what really matters?
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 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 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 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 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 April 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Clear Sailing for Lakeland? Judging from the firm's performance over the past year and a half, perhaps investors should give Lakeland the benefit of the doubt here for the time being.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Unflappable Ann Taylor Ann is beginning to regain its footing. The booming stock price suggests that Wall Street has figured that out.
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 January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Digging Vulcan Materials More worrisome than margins for investors in one of the country's leading producers of sand, gravel, and asphalt is the situation with cash flow -- at least at first glance.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Dollar General Forms Up Discount retailer Dollar General forms up to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results tomorrow morning. Will investors give it a medal or a dishonorable discharge from their portfolios?
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 January 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Knocking Over drugstore.com Like to invest in companies that lose money? Then online drug retailer drugstore.com is one for you. Over its history, it has racked up losses totaling $732.8 million.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Daktronics The big-screen electronics king reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results tomorrow. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
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 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 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 April 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Zebra in the Stable Specialty printer-maker Zebra Technologies makes its first report of the new fiscal year tomorrow. Here's what you need to keep in mind when reviewing the company's first-quarter 2006 numbers.
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 May 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Children's Place Kids' clothing retailer Children's Place reports first-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow. Investors, will it be buy, sell or waffle? Here's what analysts say.
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.