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The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	CNS Is All Stuffed Up The company that gave us Breathe Right nasal strips missed analyst estimates and the stock gets crushed.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	CNS Shareholders Can Breathe Easy CNS will be acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. There should be no bitterness on either side in this deal. CNS shareholders are getting amply rewarded.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2005 W.D. Crotty	CNS Strips for Profits Nasal strip sales soar, and so do the company's third-quarter profits.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Paul Elliott	Small Cap Floating on Air CNS, maker of Breathe Right nasal strips, is a stock I love. The attraction is financial. And CNS's financials are a thing of beauty, starting with a pile of cash -- $46.87 million -- and not a penny of debt.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2004 W.D. Crotty	CNS's Whiff of Fresh Air The company's Breathe Right franchise is a real money machine. Net income of $0.24 a share beat analyst estimates by $0.05 and the top end of the company's guidance.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Dueling Fools: CNS Bull A large part of the reason this consumer products company's shares have advanced 121% over the last two years is because the company's shares didn't reflect the strong profitability of the business or its growth prospects.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Simply CNS Analysts believe that CNS will grow at an annualized rate of 18% in the long term. That's tremendous, but perhaps not enough to justify its P/E ratio of 21, or its price-to-free cash flow ratio of 21.
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The Motley Fool October 10, 2006 Bill Mann	Want to Find Buyout Candidates? Mergers don't always take place on great terms for shareholders, nonetheless, many investors continue to seek out these kinds of situations. It's part of the power of small-cap companies -- often they're the minnows that the big fish seek to make themselves grow.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Lucent Back in Black Company turns full-year-profitable, but dilution runs rampant.
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