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The Motley Fool December 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Should You Believe in Credence? When the semiconductor tester reports its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings, will this make for three quarters in a row of missing analyst projections? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Monitoring Macrovision Tic-tac-toe, investors want to know: Will the digital media piracy-fighter make it three in a row for earnings beats when it reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow afternoon?
The Motley Fool May 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Novell News For three quarters running, business-software provider Novell has confounded the experts, reporting better-than-expected earnings. Can the company keep the good news coming when it reports its fiscal second-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow afternoon?
The Motley Fool November 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Scoping Out Synopsys The microchip manufacturing software developer is set to report its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
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 May 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Phillips-Van Heusen Analysts have high hopes for this clothier as it prepares to report its first-quarter 2006 earnings. Here's a quick rundown of what Wall Street expects, what the company's already done, and what you might want to look for in Tuesday's report.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Synopsys The chip manufacturing software company reports fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings after close tomorrow. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool February 1, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: New to Nuance The speech-to-typeface specialist Nuance Communications is set to report its first-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2005 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Progress Report The small enterprise software maker Progress reveals its numbers tomorrow. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Palm Harbor Docks The manufactured housing builder aims to build on last quarter's results as it closes out its reporting on fiscal 2006. Palm Harbor reports fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 results after market close on Tuesday. 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 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Deconstructing Adobe The software company is set to report it fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings numbers. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena No Longer Burnt The telecom equipment maker has trumped Wall Street's earnings estimates for four quarters running. Twice, it even earned profits in the process. What will the company show when it reports its full-year results and fourth-quarter 2006 numbers?
The Motley Fool October 24, 2005 Rich Smith	CheckFree's in the Mail Will tomorrow's earnings numbers clear or bounce? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Salesforce.com Gets Forceful The on-demand software pioneer is set to release its first-quarter 2008 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Blackboard's Clean Record The educational software maker is set to report fourth-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: TransAct Investors, if you thought TransAct looked expensive at a trailing P/E of 47, look again. At a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 80, it's doubly so.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Irresistible Hewlett-Packard In advance of earnings analysts expect to see an 8% rise in sales and an even bigger rise in profits.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Superior Synopsys The company, which makes the software that controls the equipment that makes semiconductors, is set to report its fiscal first-quarter 2007 earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Simply CNS Analysts believe that CNS will grow at an annualized rate of 18% in the long term. That's tremendous, but perhaps not enough to justify its P/E ratio of 21, or its price-to-free cash flow ratio of 21.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Could Salesforce.com Be Cheap? Most investors see that this stock is way too expensive. But, when measured against the 90% year-over-year growth in free cash flow, the 50 P/FCF ratio almost looks cheap?! That's the trouble with trying to value a young, fast-growing company with traditional valuation measures.
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 July 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Reading Blackboard's Crib Sheet Will educational software maker Blackboard get another good grade when it reports next Tuesday?
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Serving Williams-Sonoma The high-class home furnisher 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 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 August 14, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Salesforce.com Rings In The on-demand software pioneer will once again skip ahead of the pack shortly and release its fiscal second-quarter 2008 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
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 December 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Ciena Back in Black Investors, they say everybody loves a winner, and judging from the great amount of attention spawned by Ciena's return to profitability after a five-year hiatus, the saying holds true.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hoping for Progress The beleaguered software maker steps up to the plate to deliver its earnings report for fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Salesforce.com Calling With its resulting price-to-free cash flow ratio of 65, Salesforce.com won't be cheap even if it achieves the 45% long-term compounded earnings growth that analysts project for it.
The Motley Fool November 1, 2005 Rich Smith	Macrovision's Blurry View With analysts focusing all their attention on Macrovision's guidance and pro forma results, "disappointing" results tomorrow just might present Foolish investors an excellent opportunity to zig when Wall Street zags.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Raytheon Rumbles The defense contractor is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Getting Some Digital Insight Want to know what's happening at online banking facilitator Digital Insight? The company reports first-quarter 2006 results after close of trading tomorrow. In the meantime, let's take a look at a few facts that will help put the numbers in context.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2006 Jean Graham	Nuance: Live Long and Prosper? The speech-recognition specialist has a gap in its GAAP numbers. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Polycom Prognostications After seven straight quarters of pummeling the prognostications of professional pundits, Polycom stock plummeted when it warned that it might possibly "miss" its earnings estimate when reporting quarterly results shortly.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Divining DynCorp The government contractor is set to report its fiscal year 2007 and fourth-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Unflappable Ann Taylor Ann is beginning to regain its footing. The booming stock price suggests that Wall Street has figured that out.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2008 Rich Smith	Cisco Parties Like It's 1999 Cisco Systems gives a blast from its past, reverting to its Bubble-icious habit of "beating by a penny" on its fiscal 2008 earnings report. Let's take a look at the yearly earnings.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Resuming Progress? After posting back-to-back earnings misses, Progress Software pulled out of its slump last quarter and beat the estimators. Will it begin a new streak, and start off next week with a bang, when it reports second-quarter 2007 earnings?
The Motley Fool March 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Stride Rite Laces Up Investors may want to look past the slew of one-time, non-cash charges to GAAP earnings due to the Saucony acquisition and focus on cash profitability instead when the company reports its fiscal first-quarter 2006 numbers.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Progress Reboots After posting 15 straight earnings beats, application infrastructure software maker Progress Software stumbled badly last quarter and needs to reprove itself to the market tomorrow. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Inspecting InfoUSA Analysts are optimistic about the data-collator, but disappointment is still possible for investors.
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Digital Insight Sees Cash Fortunately, investors have no need to parse the logic behind DI's assertion that it was actually pro forma profitable last quarter -- the firm let us see for ourselves that it was cash profitable.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2007 Rich Smith	Macrovision Moves Sales rocketed 32% in the third quarter, and GAAP profits per share nearly doubled, with performance far exceeding analysts' predictions on both counts.
The Motley Fool May 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hewlett Packs Earnings The computer maker is set to report its second-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Ciena Soothes The telecom equipment maker returns to Wall Street on Thursday to report its fiscal third-quarter 2006 results. Investors, will its winning streak continue?
The Motley Fool May 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Watching Washington Post The Washington Post reports first-quarter 2006 earnings tomorrow. Should investors pass on this, or is it a deal?
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 August 22, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Will Credence Clear Water? Can semiconductor-tester Credence Systems keep up its recent profitable trend, and make it three in a row for positive (pro forma only) earnings when it reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers on Thursday? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 5, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy La-Z-Boy's fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 earnings report is due out tomorrow afternoon. Investors, want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Want to know what really matters?