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The Motley Fool December 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Say It Ain't So, Jos. A. Bank Has Jos. A. Bank's story changed, or can it return to its consistently winning ways of years past? Investors will get their next clue when the retailer reports its third-quarter 2006 numbers.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Jos. A Bank Out of 16 earnings seasons, the company has met analyst estimates just once -- and exceeded them 15 times. Can Joe say it's so again tomorrow, when it reports its first-quarter 2006 numbers?
The Motley Fool December 11, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Getting a Jump on Jos. A. Bank In advance of earnings, analysts and investors are hoping that upscale clothier Jos. A. Banks may beat estimates once again.
The Motley Fool September 10, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Money in the Jos. A. Bank In advance of earning reports, it seems that upscale retailer Jos. A. Bank may just beat analysts estimates, for the fifth quarter in a row.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Best Buy Opens Early Best Buy is expecting to report same-store sales gains of 6% to 7% in the fourth quarter, and "strong" revenue growth overall. In contrast to its customers, Best Buy says it's been keeping tight reins on its own spending.
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 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 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 April 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Boeing Approaches Humongous companies like Boeing are tricky beasts to analyze -- simply because there are so many moving parts that it's hard to keep a firm grasp on where the enterprise as a whole is headed. But investors, there's a trend afoot here -- and it looks like a good one.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Pier 1 Docks Over the past 18 months, the retailer's gross, operating and net margins have all collapsed -- and the culmination of this collapse is contained in analysts' prediction of just a penny's worth of profits when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Children's Place Kids' clothing retailer Children's Place reports first-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow. Investors, will it be buy, sell or waffle? Here's what analysts say.
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 March 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Williams-Sonoma Sounds Off The home furnisher's margin improvements won't set any speed records, but they're definitely moving in the right direction. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Macrovision Checkup The digital media piracy fighter reports first-quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow after market close. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street is looking for? Want to get a better feel for the big picture?
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 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 May 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Chipotle's Order Up The McDonald's spin-off reports its first-quarter 2006 numbers Monday after market close. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Benetton Still Under Wraps Though the clothing retailer is expecting an unambitious 4% sales growth, it would be an improvement over what Benetton's been doing recently. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Chipotle's First Course Despite the torrid pace at which the McDonald's spinoff has been opening restaurants, Chipotle's operating cash flow has risen while its capital expenditures declined. If it can stick to that recipe, investors should see some tasty free cash flow.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: CarMax Revs Up This stock's not much of a hot rod. The company goes from 2.2% net margins to -- 2.2% net margins in 18 months. But you can't blame CarMax for this.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Batter Up at Dick's Even if the sporting goods retailer meets expectations of 20% long-term earnings growth, the price looks pretty rich for investors.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: RadioShack Opens Doors The electronics retailer reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects -- and what really matters?
The Motley Fool March 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Checking TurboChef's Oven Operating and net margins, while strong during the end of last year, have both turned negative recently. Investors, take note.
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 April 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hello, American Greetings To sum up, the greeting-card company is selling less, making less profit on what it does sell, its stock price is lagging, and management has spent $200 million of shareholders' money to buy back shares at 11% higher prices than those shares are worth today.
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 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 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 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Dollar General Forms Up Discount retailer Dollar General forms up to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 results tomorrow morning. Will investors give it a medal or a dishonorable discharge from their portfolios?
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Testing Circuit City With a stock that's risen 60% over the last 12 months, investors clearly have high hopes for the retail electronics vendor. Will those hopes pan out? 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 February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: IHOP Opens Early The restaurant's three-prong approach for improving its business looks like it's working. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2007 Rich Smith	Joe Produces the Rabbit Men's clothing retailer Jos. A. Banks beat analysts expectations by increasing important high-margin internet and catalog sales.
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 April 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Genuine News Investors, when the CEO of a company that derives more than half its revenues and profits from the troubled auto industry pronounces himself "pleased" with what happened in 2005, you have to take notice.
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 March 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Here, Petco, Petco! The good news: Most of Petco's bad news is limited to the top few lines of its earnings statement, where sales and cost of sales are laid out. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Wimm-Bill-Dann Opens The Russian dairy king's CEO Sergei Plastinin announced he will be soon moving on to create a new company. Shareholders may or may not have been reassured to hear his statement.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2006 Rich Smith	Thanks, Joe Jos. A. Bank is more a traditional growth story than meets the eye.
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 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 April 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Tribune Goes to Print If Tribune's moves to reduce costs are indeed basically complete, and one-time items stop popping up on its financial statements, the firm's net could firm up considerably going forward. Investors, take note.
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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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.