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The Motley Fool November 14, 2005 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hot Seat for La-Z-Boy How will August's excuse play out? The company may be in the midst of a foam shortage, but its shares remain right plump with a 3.7% dividend and plenty of cash flow to fund it.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax	A La-Z-Boy Letdown The company lowered third-quarter guidance down to $0.11 to $0.14 per share; the consensus estimate was previously $0.25 per share. Given the variables, it's no wonder investors soured on the stock today.
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 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 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 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 June 14, 2005 Seth Jayson	In Bed With a New Marketer Select Comfort brings in a La-Z-Boy executive as chief marketing officer. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2004 Nathan Parmelee	La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy Things may look bleak, but La-Z-Boy is showing signs that it will right the ship.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Lazy La-Z-Boy The recliner specialist reclines after a soft close to its fiscal year.
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 January 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Ethan Allen Sees Green Will new homeowners get home-furnishing-happy? Ethan Allen hopes so.
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 August 10, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	La-Z-Boy's Hazy Ploy The recliner specialist's stock is trading for half of what it peaked at two years ago.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Should You Buy La-Z-Boy Now? La-Z-Boy reports a swing from losses to profits.
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 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 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 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 August 23, 2005 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy's Latest, Greatest Excuse The company reports a good quarter but invents a whopper of an excuse for falling shy of expectations. Investors, take note.
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?
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 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 15, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Gets Busy The furniture maker announced a further round of restructuring aimed at aligning its production capacity with the tastes of the American consumer. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lifesaving La-Z-Boy? The furniture company is set to report its third-quarter 2006 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
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 November 18, 2005 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Gets Off the Couch The sofa maker vows to get to work next quarter. But should investors believe it?
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 June 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Overachieving La-Z-Boy The furniture maker is set to report its quarterly earnings estimates. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool August 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Tomorrow, the furniture maker tries to get back on track when it reports its fiscal first-quarter 2006 numbers after market-close. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Bedbugs Bite Tempur-Pedic After the close yesterday, the company announced that it was revising its guidance lower. But don't write off the company or the stock -- just stay away until the dust settles.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Rita Spares the Worst There's no such thing as a good hurricane, but the U.S. energy infrastructure escaped this one with relatively minimal damage. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2005 Nathan Slaughter	Check Out Our Worst Picks These three dividend-paying "losers" are worth investing in. Here's a closer look: Kraft... La-Z-Boy... Cedar Fair...
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 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 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 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.
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 February 11, 2004 Matt Logan	La-Z-Boy's Sales Recline Remain seated: These earnings are nothing to get up for.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Select Comfort's Wide Awake The bed maker announced that favorable trends over the holiday shopping season make it comfortable delivering full-year earnings guidance of $1.05 to $1.08 per share, "with some upside potential."
The Motley Fool October 12, 2004 Phil Wohl	Stanley Furniture Gets Comfortable The wood furniture maker uses a niche strategy to work around industry problems. Shares are trading at an attractive 14 times the 2004 earnings estimate of $3.12 per share, which is at a steep discount relative to the 30%-plus growth expected this year.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Lags Behind When the furniture company reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 numbers, will they make it three-in-a-row for earnings misses?
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Takes a Break After leaping more than 5% in anticipation of a strong quarterly report to end its fiscal year, shares of the upholstered furniture maker gave back a bit recently.
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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 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 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.
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