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The Motley Fool November 17, 2004 Rich Smith	Natuzzi. Now, That's Italian! Year-to-date sales were almost absolutely flat for the Italian leather furniture maker. On a euro basis, quarterly sales were down nearly 5% year-on-year. Gross margins were essentially unchanged. Net profits fell 20%.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Rich Smith	Hooker's Sales U-Turn The furniture maker predicts declining sales next quarter. Hooker's stock currently trades for $15 a stub, making for the easiest of P/E ratio calculations: Hooker trades at a P/E of 10.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2004 Seth Jayson	Mixed Bag for Bassett With its restructuring mostly over, Bassett Furniture Industries needs to focus on execution now.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 Seth Jayson	How YOU Doin', Natuzzi? A slowdown in the Italian furniture maker's biz may make for a good buy.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Seth Jayson	Stanley Furniture Gets Comfy Stanley Furniture's stock jumps on strong revenue and earnings, and it may keep climbing.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker's Free Trade U-Turn The furniture maker outsources a lot of its furniture production to China, then signed on to an American funiture manufacturers complaint about China selling bedroom furniture too cheaply in the US. Chine responds by threatening slow production of other goods.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Natuzzi Impresses, Warns The Italian furniture company's profitability is better than expected. The real question for investors to ponder is whether the firm can maintain this performance.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Rich Smith	The Olympics and Investing: The Home Team Get to Know a Country: And where better to begin than with Olympic host nation Italy. This is a pretty easy country to get to know, investment-wise: Benetton... De Rigo... Luxottica... Natuzzi ...
The Motley Fool February 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Skewers Chinese Partners Hooker Furniture accuses its own Chinese partners of "dumping" product on the U.S. market.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2004 Matt Logan	La-Z-Boy's Sales Recline Remain seated: These earnings are nothing to get up for.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Rex Moore	One Stock to Get Hooked On Hooker Furniture is a family-run operation that was founded back in 1924, and it has all the things you like to see in a business, including a modest valuation.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Natuzzi Needs Reconditioning Italian sofa magnate Natuzzi reports a crushing 14% decline in the number of units sold during its fiscal 2007 third quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Latches on to Profits Hooker Furniture decides that free trade is a good thing after all.
The Motley Fool September 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Natuzzi Not Napping The Italian sofa maker reports second-quarter 2006 earnings results. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool March 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Get to Know Natuzzi The Italian sofa maker will report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2005 Seth Jayson	Hooker Loses Respect on Street The furniture maker's shares have been punished in the wake of a sales slowdown. Is the pain over?
The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Takes a Hit Restructuring costs at the furniture maker crimp quarterly profits.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2004 Rich Smith	Four-Dimensional Stocks Einstein would understand how a stock whose price has risen can still be cheap.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2004 Rich Smith	American Standard Still Clogged American Standard reported strong results, but debt remains a factor.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2005 Seth Jayson	Hooker Furniture Getting Bloated? Great results bode well for investors, but keep an eye on inventories.
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 September 11, 2006 Rich Smith	Natuzzi Not Napping Investors need to ask how repeatable the Italian sofa maker's recent performance will be if sales next quarter start trending downwards again. If they do, what will that do to margins going forward?
The Motley Fool September 10, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Natuzzi Disturbs Our Sleep In advance of sofa maker Natuzzi's quarterly earnings, analysts are hoping the company will find a way to slim down costs and improve margins.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	What's Hounding Bassett? The furniture company is retooling to take advantage of lower-cost imports, but will that be enough to kick-start growth? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2005 Rich Duprey	Hooker Furniture Gets Scratched Furniture maker misses estimates on weak domestic sales and flat future. But there may yet be opportunities to get Hooker at even better prices.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Another Dent at Hooker Furniture Inventory levels and sliding sales of domestically produced furniture continue to plague the company. Should prices dip back toward the lows of a couple months ago, the shares would offer a very attractive opportunity to investors who can afford to be patient.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 David Lee Smith	Natuzzi's Not So Natty Now With housing woes weighing it down, the furniture maker swings to a loss for the quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Mike Cianciolo	Bassett Builds Strong Q2 The furniture manufacturer posts solid second-quarter results. The strategy of selling affordable furniture that is ready for delivery within 30 days continues to generate the most significant growth for Bassett.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	One for the Couch Potato Last night, Hooker Furniture announced its 10th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales growth as margins widened to produce even stronger earnings.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Outsourcing Pays Off at Home If a foreign company sells goods to you below its cost to manufacture, but no one loses a job, does anyone care? Here's a look at a Chinese dumping case that no one is talking about because it hurts no one and benefits everyone.
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.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Ethan Allen Jilts the Jinx Year-over-year the furniture retailer reports a sales increase of 2.4%, despite uncertainty with respect to the economy and an overall softer retail environment.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2005 Rich Smith	Bassett Tracks Hooker Bassett Furniture follows in Hooker Furniture's consolidating footsteps. The company received a pat on the back for its performance, with its stock having risen more than 5% for the day yesterday.
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 March 25, 2004 Seth Jayson	VimpelCom Calling The no. 2 Russian mobile phone carrier's stock packs potential.
The Motley Fool June 3, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Your Friend, the P/E Ratio The P/E is informative, but don't rely on it too much. There are many other numbers to examine when studying a stock.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Bombay Heads South Investors get more of the same from Bombay.
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 January 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Ethan Allen Sees Green Will new homeowners get home-furnishing-happy? Ethan Allen hopes so.
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 29, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Bassett Is No Dog Despite being in the furniture business, Bassett is holding its own and paying a decent dividend.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2006 Tim Beyers	Meet the P/E Ratio You're about to get to know the most maligned metric in investing, the P/E. Why all the hate? Investors, read on.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Reading Stanley's Signals The furniture maker is holding its own in a slowing industry. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2007 Rich Smith	Natuzzi Follows the Money The sofa company is going east and north, not west, opening new stores in Europe in the face of deteriorating sales in the U.S. Investors take note.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2007 Rich Smith	Motley Furniture News Furniture Brands investors got a rare bit of good news last night, as the company released a sales update suggesting that things aren't quite as bad as they were looking last month.
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 November 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Snoozing on Natuzzi The Italian sofa maker reports third-quarter 2006 earnings shortly. While investors are waiting, here is some information to consider.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2005	P/E Ratio Dynamics There's some logic for investors behind seemingly wacky P/E ratios.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Furniture Puts Investors First Closing a factory is never popular, but it's the right thing to do. Hooker's continued devotion to serving its owners' interests preserves the possibility that this company could double yet again.
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