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The Motley Fool June 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Testing Circuit City The retailer's stock is up 70% over the last year, and for all the analysts' skepticism, no one on Wall Street seems to think this company has seen its best days yet. Come Monday morning, we'll find out who's right, when Circuit City reports its fiscal first quarter 2007 results.
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 April 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: WD-40 Slides In The past 18 months have seen WD-40's gross profits squeezed steadily, with gross margins contracting quarter after quarter after quarter. Investors, take note.
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 December 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Circuit City's Latest Lap Hot on the heels of a disappointing report from Best Buy, fellow electronics big-boxer Circuit City is set to report fiscal third-quarter 2007 results.
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 June 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Sizing Up DSW Investors, by tomorrow afternoon, the footwear retailer will have its first-quarter 2006 earnings report out, and you'll know if it's a buy.
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 June 14, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Big Boxes' Big Earnings Consumer electronics retailers lead the list of weekly earnings reports.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Daktronics The big-screen electronics king reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results tomorrow. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool September 17, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Circuit City's Improving The No. 2 electronics retailer is making strides and beats estimates.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: A Fitting Day at Joe's Rolling gross, operating, and net margins have all climbed upwards over the last 18 months for the clothing retailer Jos. A. Bank. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2003 Dave Marino-Nachison	Cleaning Circuit City's Face Is the consumer electronics retailer doing enough to update its stores?
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 June 19, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Foolish Forecast: How Bad at Circuit City? The electronics retailer is set to report its first-quarter earnings results. Investors, does a week earnings report from Best Buy suggest that Circuit City will also release tepid results?
The Motley Fool January 5, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Santa Skips Circuit City Overall December sales at the electronics retailer were up a scant 1.8% to $1.75 billion. Same-store sales fell 5.8%.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Fetching REX The last few quarters have been good to specialty electronics retailer REX Stores, which has taken maximum advantage of federal tax breaks for investments in synthetic fuels. But is that the full story? Investors, take note.
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 December 19, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Circuit City Goes Haywire Circuit City just stoked electronic retail-industry concerns. It's shares are down 18%.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: NYT Goes to Print With New York Times' plan for increased profitability largely resting on attempts to raise advertising and subscription rates, the company appears to be swimming against the tide here. 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 September 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Circuit City Seeking Charm The electronics retailer is set to report its fiscal second-quarter 2008 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Columbia's Chill Columbia Sportswear releases first-quarter 2006 tomorrow afternoon. Here's what you need to know to prepare appropriately for the news.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Rite Aid Writes a Script Although the retail pharmacy isn't setting the world on fire with its turnaround, its gross margins have inched up slightly over the last 18 months. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Dean Foods Dean's gross margins ebbed and flowed over the course of the past 18 months. At last report, they wound up right back where they started, averaging about 24.3%. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2005 W.D. Crotty	A Tease That Could Pay Off Big Circuit City recently turned down a cash buyout offer for more than the company is now worth -- what lies ahead for the consumer electronics retailer?
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 February 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Decoding Fargo It's steady as she goes at Fargo: Gross, operating, and net margins are all on a slow but steady rise after their September 2004 slump. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Honeywell's Homecoming The industrial conglomerate is set to report fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
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 May 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cisco Sings Cisco reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow after close of market. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Clear Sailing for Lakeland? Judging from the firm's performance over the past year and a half, perhaps investors should give Lakeland the benefit of the doubt here for the time being.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Homing In on Honeywell The mega-conglomerate reports its third quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow morning. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? 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 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 April 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Matsushita Flips the Switch The consumer electronics powerhouse reports fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results tomorrow. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
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 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 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 May 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: VimpelCom on the Horn The Russian telecom reports first-quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool December 13, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Best Buy Misses; Investors Freak Out Smart investors should ignore the noise and appreciate Best Buy for what it is -- a great retail company.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Growth Stops at Deb Shops The teen clothier reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 results shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Clear-Cut Apogee Investors, even if the economy falters, the glass company's plans to continue seizing market share and controlling costs, if successful, should keep Apogee growing profits in excess of sales gains.
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 December 27, 2005	Foolish Fundamentals: The Income Statement A look at how companies report their sales and profits and what it means to investors.
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 September 14, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Best Buy Bounce Back? In advance of retailer Best Buy's quarterly report, analysts predict some sales growth and some decline in profits.
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 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 June 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: American Woodmark Tomorrow, the cabinetmaker reports its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 numbers. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects? Want to know what really matters?