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The Motley Fool July 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resources Still Global Will the professional services firm make it three in a row for earnings misses when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers Wednesday afternoon?
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: 1-800-Flowers in Season In its fiscal first-quarter earnings release back in November, the company promised improved margins later in the year. Investors, don't expect to see the whole bump all at once.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resources Global The professional services firm gets ready to report its fiscal first-quarter 2007 numbers: Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?
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: Kensey Grow or Not? The medical technology company's problem is that when you hold your margins more or less steady while your revenues also remain roughly the same, well, everything stays the same. In other words, you can't grow earnings. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ready for RedEnvelope? The company is unprofitable on a cash (free cash flow) or an accounting (GAAP net profits) basis. If it has any value at all, it's still in the eye of the beholder at this point. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark Investors, if sales numbers come in weaker than expected for the cabinet maker, that might actually be good news. Just make sure that the sales the company keeps are the high margin ones.
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 February 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Zale's Tiebreaker Zale's fiscal first-quarter appears to be a seasonally weak one for the company. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Healthways Healthways' stock price may be up from last year, but it's been sagging over the last few months. One reason: margin weakness.
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 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 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 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: FedEx in the Mail FedEx is a superior company, and analysts set superior expectations for it. There's always a danger when Wall Street sets its expectations too high and investors believe them.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resources Global Not So Resourceful As Sarbanes-Oxley gets ever longer in the tooth, can the SOX-powered firm turn its fortunes around? Investors will get their next clue, when Resources Global reports its fiscal second-quarter 2007 results.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Biomet Flexes The bone specialist is due to release its fiscal third-quarter 2006 report tomorrow morning. Here's what investors need to know to make sense of it.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: McCormick Shakes It Up First-quarter earnings results could set this stock to moving either way. Here's what you need to know to make sense of the mix.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: bebe Bounces In This clothing retailer reports fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow after market close. This is a company with an outstanding history of rewarding shareholders.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: GameStop Starts With the exception of last quarter, GameStop's rolling gross margin has been trending downwards for the past 18 months, as have its operating and net margins. 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 August 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Starbucking Starbucks reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool June 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Flexing Family Dollar The deep discount retailer reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow morning. Investors, take note.
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 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 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 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Family Dollar for Your Thoughts The deep-discounter's margins remain under pressure, having fallen across the board over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cutter to Putt Golfing clothier Cutter & Buck reports its fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings tomorrow morning. For the first time in 18 months, analysts are expecting the firm to report an improvement in earnings versus the year-ago quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Bed Bath & Beyond Share-count meanderings aside, Bed Bath & Beyond runs a great business, and it keeps getting better. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Nike Ready to Run Investors, an established retailer like Nike will probably have well-managed inventory, but keep an eye on the inventories tomorrow, just to be sure.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Trying on Perry Ellis The clothier reports first-quarter 2007 earnings results tomorrow. Want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: The Real United Technologies? When the conglomerated defense contractor reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 results early tomorrow morning, will it revert to the past, or continue wowing the critics?
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: FuelCell FuelCell's business may not be improving quickly, but at least it's moving in the right general direction. Investors, take note.
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 January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Netflix in the Mail Reviewing the company's recent performance, we see a pronounced trend toward lower gross margins, both sequentially and year over year. By any traditional valuation method, Netflix looks grossly overpriced.
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 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Oil-Dri Towels Off Over the past 12 months, the kitty litter manufacturer generated only $5 million in free cash flow. That's been quite a disappointment after the $14.4 million generated in the previous 12 months, and far below historical levels of cash generation. Investors, take note.
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 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 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 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 March 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Adecco Stays Up Late Investors, the Swiss HR powerhouse has had the same gross margin, on a rolling basis, in every quarter for the last 18 months. With its net as low as it is, even the slightest margin improvement on the bottom line can turn modest revenue gains into spectacular growth in profits.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hello, Ruby Tuesday The company's rolling gross margins have been on a long, slow slide over the past 18 months. Investors, take note.
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 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 July 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Laureate Reports The for-profit educator reports fiscal second-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow morning. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Soup's On at Darden Great as this restaurant operator is, with future growth projected to average closer to 12% per annum, the shares look rather pricey.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Bed Bath & Beyond's New Year Fiscal 2005 has come and gone for the home furnisher. Tomorrow, investors get their first glimpse at how the new year's going when it reports is fiscal first-quarter 2006 results.
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 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.