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The Motley Fool August 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials Ready to Leap Recently, the company has been able to leap Wall Street's hurdles simply by not letting its earnings decline as much as expected. Tomorrow, to make the Street happy, it will need to more than double last year's profits. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials The semiconductor equipment maker reports second-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow: Investors, buy, sell, or waffle? Here is what the analysts say.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials' Familiar Tune In advance of earnings, analysts expect Applied Materials' profits to tumble.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: What's in Store for Ross? The only way for Ross to hit its numbers is if the stock buyback program it announced last quarter was implemented aggressively in fourth-quarter 2005, magnifying the firm's profits growth by dividing those profits among fewer shares outstanding.
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 August 10, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials Leads the Way Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials is ready to report Q3 earnings next week. Here is what analysts will be looking for.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2004 Jeff Hwang	Is Applied Materials Losing Momentum? The company posted a strong third quarter, but a less optimistic outlook has its shares near its 52-week low.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials Not So Shiny In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if the semiconductor equipment maker will beat their earnings estimates yet again.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2004 Brian Gorman	Applied Materials' Buyback The stock repurchase program sounds impressive, but has yet to add shareholder value.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials, Low Hurdles So far this year, Applied Materials is two-for-two in earnings beats, but only by virtue of doing slightly less badly than expected. Analysts wonder if this quarter will be different.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: DeVry's Final Grade The for-profit educator reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?
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 January 29, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: L-3's Communicating The defense and security specialist is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Marine Products' Shallow Buyback The boat maker gets ready to report its third-quarter 2006 earnings. Investors, can the company break its losing streak?
The Motley Fool August 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Applied Brakes Investors in Applied Materials couldn't have asked for much more out of their company's fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings release. However, caution is in order as semiconductor investors tend to be nervous types.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Marking the Finish Line The footwear retailer is scheduled to report its fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings numbers tomorrow after close of trading. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool February 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: West Marine Floats In The boating accessory retailer reports is fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Trying on Perry Ellis The clothier reports first-quarter 2007 earnings results tomorrow. Want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials Gets Cheap In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if Allied Materials will beat their estimates once again.
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 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 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 January 24, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Locking In on Lockheed The aerospace superstar reports its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results shortly. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
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 January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Colgate-Palmolive in the Wash Will the stock's winning streak continue? Wednesday's fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results could factor heavily in answering that question.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2011 Brian D. Pacampara	Varian Semiconductor Shares Skyrocketed: What You Need to Know Shares of Varian Semiconductor soared a staggering 51% on Wednesday after Applied Materials offered to buy the mobile device chip equipment specialist for $4.9 billion.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Grumman Knocks It's been close to a year now since the last time the defense contractor so much as just met Wall Street's earnings projections -- much less missed one. Will Tuesday's news mark an end to its winning streak? 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 March 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciao, Natuzzi Sales are slumping, gross margins are down 320 basis points over the past 18 months, and the company has lost money in each of the past four quarters. 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 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 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 January 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Raytheon Rumbles The defense contractor is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: ARM Holdings ARM Holdings' stock closed out last week by hitting an intraday 52-week high of $7.43 before relapsing a bit. Will tomorrow send it still higher?
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Marking Furniture Brands The furniture maker reports its third-quarter 2006 earnings. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
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 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 August 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Time Warner The on- and off-line media magnate reports second-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 May 18, 2007 Rich Smith	Applied Pessimism Despite reporting decent earnings, the world's dominant producer of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment has seen its shares slip 4%, thanks to an earnings conference call that apparently underwhelmed investors.
The Motley Fool June 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy La-Z-Boy's fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 earnings report is due out tomorrow afternoon. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
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 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 July 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resources Still Global Will the professional services firm make it three in a row for earnings misses when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers Wednesday afternoon?
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 June 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Is It Your Best Buy? Stock shoppers, start your engines. The electronics retailer reports its fiscal first-quarter 2007 numbers tomorrow before market open. Should investors be nervous?
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	The Applied Materials Yo-Yo A consummate sentiment stock, investor attitudes about the semiconductor cycle will lift and depress Applied Materials' shares.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Standard Looking Good The company is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2006 Anders Bylund	Foolish Forecast: Tyco Still Ticking The diversified manufacturing and service company is set to report fourth-quarter and full-year earnings. Investors, here is a primer on the company and its current outlook.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Should You Believe in Credence? When the semiconductor tester reports its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings, will this make for three quarters in a row of missing analyst projections? Investors, take note.
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?