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The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Black & Decker Investors, keep an eye on the Power Tools and Accessories division. So long as it does well, Black & Decker as a whole will do just fine.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Can Champion Prevail? As demand for its manufactured home products builds in the wake of last year's hurricanes, Champion is on the comeback trail. But the company still has a few issues investors need to keep an eye on.
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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ryder Dismounts This company has consistently beaten expectations in each of the past 20 quarters. Will it do so again in tomorrow's fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2005 release? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Snap-On The company's cash from operations has been on a general downward trend for quite a while. Investors need to look for signs that this trend has truly reversed before jumping in.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cracking Coke Open Whatever happens tomorrow with the net margin under GAAP, it's more important for investors to watch Coca-Cola's free cash flow, which usually exceeds accounting profits by a considerable amount.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Pricing Cost Plus How do rising sales turn into falling profits? Sadly, that's exactly what's going on at Cost Plus. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Polo Mounts Up The company's net profits are riding a wave of strong gross margins, which have risen for the past 12 months. Investors, take note.
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 January 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Knocking Over drugstore.com Like to invest in companies that lose money? Then online drug retailer drugstore.com is one for you. Over its history, it has racked up losses totaling $732.8 million.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Nile's Tide Comes In The Internet jeweler's gross margins have been on a steady, if shallow, decline for the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Sportsman's Guide Shifting Wall Street has had more than a month to chew over January's guidance and has bid the company's shares up 14% in response. Can the stock go higher tomorrow? That will depend on two things.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Manpower Powers Up Priced at a 19 times multiple to earnings and 20 times free cash flow, Manpower isn't the cheapest company on the planet. Still, it might be worth a look to investors.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Standard American Standard's gross margin, which wasn't impacted at all by restructuring charges, has remained strong -- even growing slightly. 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 February 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Rofin-Sinar Given the lack of guidance from Wall Street's professional analysts, it's more important than ever for investors to do their own research and familiarize themselves with the industrial laser maker's recent performance.
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 March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Is It HOTT in Here? Investors, focus on inventories and free cash flow. That's where you'll find the first evidence of a turnaround, if one exists.
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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Weyerhaeuser Sprouts When Weyerhaeuser beats analyst estimates, it usually does so by a large margin, but its misses are pretty sizable, too. Which way will it go? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2004 Rich Smith	Cemex Throws a Brick The Mexican cement tycoon overpays in a quest for growth. The market was less than impressed by the buy, slashing 6% from Cemex's share price.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: The Year in (Princeton) Review The test-prep company's investors has better hope the analyst got it right this time, after overestimating the company's profits in three of the past four quarters.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: ITT's Q4 Report Card Barring some unforeseen disaster, it's practically guaranteed that trailing twelve months operating and net margins will continue their upward trend over at least the next few quarters. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Sybase at Bat Sybase faces plenty of competition in the database market and as it head into tomorrow's earnings report for fourth-quarter and full-year 2005, the company looks set to end the year not with a bang, but with a whimper.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Unzipping Coach Coach's trailing P/E of 29 looks a little worse than its actual price-to-free cash flow ratio of 26. But even if the company continues to grow at analysts' projected rate of 20% per year, this is one pricey handbag.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Wendy's Order's Up There's a veritable plethora of issues on investor's radar, considering that Wendy's is going through a whole lot of changes in an effort to get its business back on track.
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 March 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ventiv's Checkup The medical "solutions" outsourcer's growth has found its way down into the operating margins, fortuitously timed tax credits have given the net margin a boost. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Procter & Gamble Lathers Up If P&G continues to highlight the Household Care and Beauty businesses from the home team, and the Blades & Razors and Duracell & Braun divisions from Gillette as its star players, wise investors should give this stock a glance.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: New York, New Year Analysts are looking for clothier New York & Co. to hit the top of its latest guidance of $0.33 to $0.36 per share for the quarter. That 9% increase might be a bit optimistic, however, in light of the already confirmed "revenue miss."
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Opening the Tupperware If good news is reported, it could result in raised guidance for next quarter and a consequent boost to the stock price. 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 July 22, 2005 Rich Smith	Cement Maker Pours It On British peer RMC acquisition helps to cement Cemex. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Counting Coinstar Investors should watch for any comments the company might make about its test program to place its coin-counting machines in Wal-Marts. As an expansion of the company's original, high-margin core business plan, that move seems to have the greatest potential for success.
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Adobe Downloads Investors, this company is practically printing money. Or at least it was, until this quarter. There are several things to keep in mind if you're to make sense of tomorrow's first-quarter earnings release -- and the market's reaction thereto.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Opening the Barnes Door With Barnes & Noble's earnings estimate standing at $1.75, profits for the quarter are expected to rise 15% versus fourth-quarter 2004. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Boning Up on Zimmer With its margins as high as they are, and rising as steadily as they are, you won't be surprised to hear that the medical technology company's shares command premium prices.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hershey Unwraps Focus on the margins -- there investors will find the proof of how well Hershey is managing to offset its raw materials costs.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Blackboard in Session Blackboard's margins are nothing short of astounding, and the rate at which it is growing those margins leaves "astounding" in the dust. The downside to a record like that: Investors likely expect an earnings beat on Monday.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Charmed, I'm Sure Should investors like this chain of plus-sized women's clothing stores?
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Coventry Calling Coventry Health Care is now the envy of the HMO world, besting the last reported margins of its competitors. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Monitoring the Citi Trends Citi Trends has been public for less than a year. Still, five quarters should be enough to give investors an idea as to where the company is trending.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Talk America Talks Talk America's flat to declining sales, plus fewer profits earned on those sales, is not a recipe for earnings growth. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Eastman Kodak Yesterday was a very good day for the company's shareholders. While the Dow rose a little under 1%, shares of film pharaoh Kodak leapt nearly 4%.
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 January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Digging Vulcan Materials More worrisome than margins for investors in one of the country's leading producers of sand, gravel, and asphalt is the situation with cash flow -- at least at first glance.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Thomson Publishes Unless cash generation surged in the fourth-quarter, 2005 will probably have to go down in the record books as a pretty weak year for Thomson. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Chewing Over Wrigley For investors, watching Wrigley's margin movement is like chewing on a stick of gum. It gives you something to do with your time, but doesn't really accomplish much.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hasbro Hits Play Over the past two quarters, the company's inventories have grown almost in lockstep with sales growth -- no danger signs there. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: BJ's Delivers Thanks to a 20% run-up in share price over the past three months, BJ's shares are starting to look pricey. The company has some work to do if it's to grow into its valuation.