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The Motley Fool June 14, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: KB Home Opens Up The homebuilder reports its second-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow. But does it really matter what the company says? At a trailing P/W of 4.3, you can't go wrong with this stock -- or can you?
The Motley Fool March 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lennar's Open House Recent housing news didn't exactly encourage optimism in home-building investors. On that note, here is a preview of the fiscal first-quarter 2006 earnings news due out from Lennar.
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 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 January 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: The DR (Horton) Is In It will take more than a housing market slowdown to defeat this homebuilder. According to analyst estimates, the company likely achieved 24% profits growth over the year-ago quarter, on an 18% rise in sales.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: ConocoPhillips Cyclical companies aren't for the faint of heart or bad of timing. Conoco's oil is in demand and fetching historically high prices. Yet the company's P/E is a mere 7.5! Might Conoco be a bargain?
The Motley Fool January 11, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Lennar's Wobbly Foundation With a cyclical industry like homebuilding, you want to buy in before it's obvious to everyone that earnings will turn up again, but that does not seem to be what's happening now.
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 March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: TLC for TLC Vision? Will investors receive fourth-quarter and full-year numbers with tender loving care, or will they give the stock the boot? Whichever way it goes, here are the facts you'll need to evaluate whether Mr. Market's reaction is correct.
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 January 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Riding the Digital River Valuation looks good enough here -- especially when you consider just how truly cheap the stock is looking today. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: A Glance at Google Google's margins are a thing of beauty, and the upward trend they're on is even more stunning. Unfortunately, the valuation looks pretty darn amazing, too. The stock sells for 96 times trailing earnings and an only slightly more reasonable 84 times trailing free cash flow.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Divining DuPont DuPont sports a trailing P/E of 18, but beware. On a free cash flow basis, this company's positively acidic, with a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 33.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Not Much to Build On at KB Home In advance of third-quarter reports for KB Home, analysts are expecting a loss; perhaps even a mega-loss.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Counting Diamond's Facets This stock wasn't worth buying a year ago at its IPO price, and it still isn't worth buying today. The company's trailing P/E has turned negative, and even with $5.9 million in trailing free cash flow, the company's resulting valuation at 51.5 times FCF.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Nailing the Housing Market KB Home reports excellent first-quarter results. But investors should be cautious of inflated returns and consider changing market conditions.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: Housing Stocks Gone Wild? Housing stocks rebound after more horrible news. Has all the bad news already been built into the stock prices of homebuilders? Should investors move in to housing stocks? Those questions are answered in this video.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Progress Boots Up Over the past four years, application infrastructure software maker Progress has beaten consensus estimates for its earnings 15 times in a row. Can the company make it a streak of "sweet 16" trouncings of the Wall Street Wise?
The Motley Fool December 22, 2003 Carla Pasternak	Is KB Home Built to Last? KB Home's shares may fall as interest rates rise.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Sun Come Out Tomorrow? Anyone who thinks that penny stocks are by definition "cheap" needs to take a close look at Sun Microsystems.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Is KB's Foundation Solid? KB Home has stellar growth at the top and bottom line, but where's the cash flow growth? Investors, carefully consider this one.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Pushing the Limited Judging from the rolling margins, the company appears to be slipping, becoming less profitable over time, and thus unlikely to turn in a profits improvement three times better than its sales improvement. Investors, take note.
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 March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: What's Brewing in Boston? Boston Beer has boosted its gross margins by 100 basis points over the past 18 months, kept its operating margins steady (after recovering from an initial wobble), and grown its net (likewise). Investors, take note.
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 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 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 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lighting Up Lucent With only 6% projected long-term growth ahead of it, a P/E of 10 and a price-to-free-cash-flow ratio more than twice as large, this stock doesn't look like a buy.
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 July 14, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Investors Beware: KB Home Is Struggling Mightily KB Home's quarterly numbers worsen; industry looks grim.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2006 Stephen Ellis	Is Lennar a Housing Value? Housing stocks have been pounded endlessly, with no sign of a bottom in the housing market. Does this offer investors a value opportunity?
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 January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Finding First Data Wall Street loves Western Union's parent company, but its margins are a bit of a mixed bag. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2004 Rick Munarriz	Home Sweet KB Home Homebuilder KB Home shines a light on the housing sector.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	KB Home's California Dreaming The homebuilder blows past estimates, but are its shares -- and those of its rivals -- overpriced?
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Cracks in Lennar's Foundation? Are fewer orders and increased incentives temporary phenomena, or warning signs for investors in this home builder?
The Motley Fool June 16, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Racing to the Bottom in Housing KB Homes reports the same tough conditions as everyone else, but are estimates finally low enough? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2008 David Lee Smith	KB Home: The Barometer's Still Falling KB Homes says that given declining consumer confidence and high home inventory levels, they don't expect a meaningful improvement in the circumstances surrounding their business in the near term.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	M.D.C. Is No Home Wrecker If the homebuilders are going down in a flurry of rising rates, it's not going to happen without a fight. M.D.C. Holdings became the latest housing specialist to hit it out of the park, even as nervous investors have kept the sector's players in check.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	What Housing Bubble? Lennar debunks the housing bubble pin pushers. Again. Real estate developers are doing just fine. The housing boom may be a bubble, but it's apparently wrapped in a much thicker skin than industry pundits are giving it credit for.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Is Hovnanian Near the Ceiling? Does slightly lower guidance mean the new-housing boom is getting long in the tooth? The risk/reward ratio in these stocks is tilted too much toward "risk" for my comfort.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2011 Morgan Housel	Robert Shiller on Why Home Prices Could Fall for Several Decades After the housing market does bottom, what you should expect from it going forward?
The Motley Fool April 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Champion Enters the Ring Last quarter, the manufactured housing company didn't just reverse its year-ago loss -- it crushed the Street's estimates. Will Champion retain its title when it reports earnings tomorrow morning?
The Motley Fool October 4, 2007 Rich Duprey	This Dead Cat Won't Bounce For the third consecutive day, shares of some of the biggest homebuilders rallied. Investors, beware, all data indicates that housing won't be doing well for a very long time to come.
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 May 25, 2006 Tim Hanson	$294,935 Better Than Average Valuation matters, and it matters a lot. Remember, Cheap stocks are good, but the cheapest stocks aren't necessarily the best stocks.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resources Connection The knock on Resources these days is that its success was due to companies being forced to pay up to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. Now that those revenues are drying up fast, so is Resources' stock price.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Are Better Days Ahead for This Homebuilder? Do increased orders and bigger backlogs signal better days for KB Home?
The Motley Fool September 27, 2007 Seth Jayson	Burning Down the House Builders Housing market woes continue to plague homebuilders with the release of the latest new home sales figures.