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The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ethan Allen Tries Again The furniture company is set to report its fiscal second-quarter 2007 earnings results. Investors, here's what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Steelcase Scores Office furniture maker Steelcase reported a stunningly successful start to its fiscal year, however, its stock fell.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Relax With Ethan Allen Not all furniture makers are struggling. Even better for its investors, analysts have again set the bar low for Ethan Allen tomorrow.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Ethan Allen Sees Green Will new homeowners get home-furnishing-happy? Ethan Allen hopes so.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Rich Smith	Ethan Allen's Earnings Potpourri The furniture maker and retailer missed both analysts' earnings target and their revenue goal -- the latter by a whopping 5%.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2007 Markos Kaminis	Ethan Allen's Masterful Q4 Decor Despite a difficult operating environment, Ethan Allen masterfully managed costs and inventory to preserve EPS in spite of a revenue decline.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Unstuffed The CEO of La-Z-Boy comments on the company's reasonable profit margins, looking for anything he can to make this quarter look good.
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The Motley Fool April 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ethan Allen Pulls Up a Chair In the wake of Stanley Furniture's disappointing earnings report earlier this week, investors once again look to Ethan Allen for comfort. Ethan Allen reports its own third-quarter 2006 earnings report Monday morning.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2005 Rich Smith	The Furniture's Piling Up What's with the inventories at furniture makers? Five of the major furniture makers are seeing inventory growth outstripping sales growth by wide margins. Investors need to keep an eye on this trend.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 Rich Smith	Furniture Brands: Some Reassembly Required Bad as it seems, if you look closer, Furniture Brands quarterly report wasn't so bad.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Rich Smith	Hooker Goes on a Diet This furniture retailer is a lean, mean cash flow machine.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2007	Sagging Sales at Bassett Furniture: Fool by Numbers The furniture maker and retailer released earnings for the second-quarter 2007: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool June 8, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	A Well-Assembled La-Z-Boy La-Z-Boy turns in a healthy quarter of free cash flow. Investors get a company with a solid balance sheet, a commitment to reducing its debt, share repurchases, and a juicy 3.2% dividend yield.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007	Ethan Allen Loses Style in Q3: Fool by Numbers The furniture company released earnings for the third-quarter 2007: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool November 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Way Too Much Furniture Brands Inventories grow far too fast at this furniture furnisher. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	La-Z-Boy Lounging Around Not all great brands are great, or even good, businesses. Investors, that would seem to be the case for this furniture-maker.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Ethan Allen Looks Solid Is the furniture industry turning around, or is Ethan Allen's success unique? Breaking with tradition, the furniture maker stated that it will achieve 8.5% earning growth in its third quarter, and it agrees with analysts estimates for its fourth quarter.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Unstuffed In advance of earnings reports, analysts expect the furniture manufacturer to show a slide in sales and a slight rise in profits.
The Motley Fool November 1, 2007 Rich Smith	It's Bad When Sales Decline, Right? Furniture Brands, the company behind Broyhill, Lane, and Thomasville, reported yet another quarter of declining sales.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Uncomfortable Furniture Brands The furniture company is set to release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Rich Smith	A Prescient but La-Z-Boy Enough with playing Wall Street's earnings game. La-Z-Boy won; Wall Street lost; case closed. What about the big picture?
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The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Furniture Branded a Likely Loser For the first time in its entire reporting history, Furniture Brands is expected to post a loss. Was its second-quarter really that bad? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Very Same Furniture Brands The furniture maker reports its second-quarter earnings 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 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Unstuffing La-Z-Boy The furniture make disappointed investors this week. In response, shareholders dropped the stock 4% after the earnings report. Was it an over-reaction?
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Seth Jayson	No Surprise at Stanley Sales and earnings are flagging at furniture maker, but there might be a decent value here.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Furniture Struggles With Its Brands Furniture Brands may be just like any other struggling furniture firm these days. Discerning the winners from the losers almost always comes down to certain investing basics, such as following the cash flow.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Ethan Allen Takes a Seat Fine furniture doesn't translate to big stock returns.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Stanley's Furniture Piles Up Inventory levels at Stanley Furniture are still a concern. It's not a pretty result for this quarter, but Stanley is not dearly priced.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Ethan Allen Crack? For four quarters running, the furniture retailer has beaten not just its analysts' best profits guesses, but its year-previous records as well. Will it streak come to an end when it reports fiscal first-quarter 2007?
BusinessWeek November 14, 2005 Gene G. Marcial	Ethan Allen Sags Deteriorating industry fundamentals fueled by low-cost, high-quality furniture imports threaten to crimp Ethan Allen's expansion.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Rich Smith	Stanley Still Short The tool maker's first-quarter was bad, and things will get worse before they get better. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Rich Duprey	A Threadbare Furniture Market Investors, the retail furniture industry is apparently having the stuffing beat out of it these days. A convergence of trends is making the industry look a little ragged.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2007 Rich Smith	Stanley Steeped in Sorrow Despite all its woes, Stanley remains ever-so-slightly free-cash-flow positive for the year to date. Eventually, people will start buying houses again, and furniture to fill 'em. Then the sun can come back out for Stanley.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Lawrence A. Rothman	Hooker Furniture Hooks a Profit Profits got a boost at Hooker Furniture, despite sluggish sales from the challenging environment, due to improved margins and lower expenses.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Stanley Survives Though others in this space have suffered a downgrade, it seems investors have enough confidence in the first quarter 2006 earnings news that Stanley Furniture will report tomorrow that they're willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt here.
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The Motley Fool January 7, 2008 Rich Smith	Time to Dive Back In? It's been years since investors in the retail furniture industry have seen anything much resembling "good news." But, maybe it is darkest before the dawn.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2005 Rich Smith	Street Spurns Stanley's Sweet Talk Furniture maker's solid quarterly numbers came with some baggage that may have unnerved potential suitors.
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The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Gets a Whippin' La-Z-Boys sales, like its trademark chairs, are soft. Latest quarterly reports show a 13% decline in sales, which management blames on the continuing challenging furniture environment.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Stanley Sneezes After Stanley Furniture announced declining sales, shares opened 9% lower before paring their losses to just 4%. Other furniture stocks followed.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Searching for Stanley Stanley's management said all the right things in its earnings release three months ago. Now shareholders need to make sure that management's deeds continue to match its words.
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