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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 August 9, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: The Same Steak n Shake The fast food restaurant is all set to report earnings tomorrow for the third-quarter of fiscal 2006. Estimates for the current quarter and the fiscal year are for a decline in earnings. Will Steak n Shake confound the analysts or will it meet expectations?
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Jim Mueller	O'Charley's Mixed on Margins Improvement in restaurant gross margins is offset by worse operating margins and give mixed results to investors.
The Motley Fool May 8, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Audible Muffled The provider of downloadable spoken-word content disappointed many investors last year. Tomorrow, the company will announce earnings for first-quarter 2006. Read on to see what expectations are now.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Jack is Hopping The fast-food chain is set to report its third-quarter 2006 earnings on Tuesday. Investor, will Jack stumble? Or will he continue his Wall Street-beating ways? Here's what to expect.
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 June 7, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Lucky Luby's? The restaurant chain will announce earnings for fiscal third-quarter 2006 tomorrow. The stock dropped after last quarter's miss, despite a positive review by analysts. Will it happen again?
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 July 26, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Audible Sounds Iffy Tomorrow, the spoken-word content provider will announce earnings for the second quarter of 2006. Will this promising company again disappoint analysts and investors?
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: IHOP Opens Early The restaurant's three-prong approach for improving its business looks like it's working. 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 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 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 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 July 25, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: IHOP Serves It Up The restaurant announces earning for the second-quarter tomorrow. The company did quite well last quarter and reported growing traffic for the second quarter. Investors, take note.
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 June 20, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Darden's Lobster Feast The restaurant operator's stock has been on a tear, doubling over the past two years. For hungry investors, the recent decline in price might be an opportunity to gobble up some shares.
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 April 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hello, Halliburton The energy, industry, and government contracting behemoth reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Here's what Wall Street expects to see.
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 March 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Healthways Healthways' stock price may be up from last year, but it's been sagging over the last few months. One reason: margin weakness.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Xerox, Do You Copy? The world's most recognizable copier brand name has promised to report its third-quarter 2006 earnings numbers shortly. Investors, here is what you need to know.
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Adobe Downloads Investors, this company is practically printing money. Or at least it was, until this quarter. There are several things to keep in mind if you're to make sense of tomorrow's first-quarter earnings release -- and the market's reaction thereto.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Whole Foods' Growth, Naturally The Texas-based organic and natural food supermarket reports earnings this Wednesday. Let's take a quick peek at what is expected from this company.
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 June 2, 2006 Jim Mueller	Foolish Forecast: Bob Evans Bobs Along The restaurant chain and sausage-seller will announce earnings for fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2006 on June 5. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: TOM on the Line TOM Online, one of China's leading Internet portals and wireless service providers, reports its first-quarter 2006 earnings numbers tomorrow.
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 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.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2005 David Meier	The Power of Margins The way you think about margins can give you an investing edge.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2006	Foolish Fundamentals: Margins Margins are important, but how you use margin information is more important to your investing success. Don't stay on the surface when analyzing margins. Your portfolio will thank you for it later.
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 April 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: RadioShack Opens Doors The electronics retailer reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects -- and what really matters?
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 June 9, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Buying on Margins Profit margins are one useful tool for finding great stock values.
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 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 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 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 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 July 25, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Wrigley's Flavor Fades: Fool by Numbers The company released second-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Highlights...
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 August 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark, Get Set, Go! Will cabinet maker American Woodmark make it three in a row for earnings "beats" when it reports its fiscal first-quarter 2007 numbers tomorrow? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2006 Shruti Basavaraj	Meager McDonald's: Fool by Numbers The fast-food restaurant released first-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool September 13, 2006 Tim Beyers	Why Margins Matter What are margins? Investors, there are three that matter when studying an income statement. Let's run though each, one at a time.
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 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 August 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Daktronics Out of Focus? Earnings and revenues rise, but a few questions arise as well.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Payless Fetch More? The question on investors' minds today is what price Wall Street will be paying for shares of Payless Shoesource tomorrow. By this time Wednesday, the company will have reported its first-quarter 2006 earnings. 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.