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The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Rich Smith	Bassett Bays Investors largely seem to have looked at the 15% year-over-year decline in sales, noticed that it was smaller than the 16% to 18% that Bassett management had predicted one month ago, and decided the shares deserved to be bid up a bit.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Bassett Bays Bassett Furniture is set to report its first-quarter 2007 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to find.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Mike Cianciolo	Bassett Builds Strong Q2 The furniture manufacturer posts solid second-quarter results. The strategy of selling affordable furniture that is ready for delivery within 30 days continues to generate the most significant growth for Bassett.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2004 Seth Jayson	Mixed Bag for Bassett With its restructuring mostly over, Bassett Furniture Industries needs to focus on execution now.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2005 Rich Smith	Bassett Tracks Hooker Bassett Furniture follows in Hooker Furniture's consolidating footsteps. The company received a pat on the back for its performance, with its stock having risen more than 5% for the day yesterday.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Disassembling Furniture Brands For the second time in one week, the furniture maker announces that it will shutter one of its factories.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2007 Rich Smith	Stanley Steeped in Sorrow Despite all its woes, Stanley remains ever-so-slightly free-cash-flow positive for the year to date. Eventually, people will start buying houses again, and furniture to fill 'em. Then the sun can come back out for Stanley.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Unstuffed The CEO of La-Z-Boy comments on the company's reasonable profit margins, looking for anything he can to make this quarter look good.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Bassett Is No Dog Despite being in the furniture business, Bassett is holding its own and paying a decent dividend.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Rich Smith	Bassett Is a Dog Here's how the bad news broke down: fourth-quarter 2006 sales declined 13% year over year, and profits fell even further, down 17%. The furniture firm operated at a loss both for the quarter and the year.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Rich Smith	Hooker Goes on a Diet This furniture retailer is a lean, mean cash flow machine.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2007 Rich Smith	Furniture Brands Stands Up Against all odds, Furniture Brands turns in a quarter better than all analysts, and themselves, predicted.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	What's Hounding Bassett? The furniture company is retooling to take advantage of lower-cost imports, but will that be enough to kick-start growth? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Uncomfortable Furniture Brands The furniture company is set to release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Rich Smith	Bassett Plays Alive Operating profit improved for the furniture manufacturer this quarter, but only due to a tax benefit. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Seth Jayson	Stanley Furniture Gets Comfy Stanley Furniture's stock jumps on strong revenue and earnings, and it may keep climbing.
The Motley Fool November 1, 2007 Rich Smith	It's Bad When Sales Decline, Right? Furniture Brands, the company behind Broyhill, Lane, and Thomasville, reported yet another quarter of declining sales.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Rich Smith	A Prescient but La-Z-Boy Enough with playing Wall Street's earnings game. La-Z-Boy won; Wall Street lost; case closed. What about the big picture?
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Rich Smith	Steelcase Scores Office furniture maker Steelcase reported a stunningly successful start to its fiscal year, however, its stock fell.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Furniture Branded a Likely Loser For the first time in its entire reporting history, Furniture Brands is expected to post a loss. Was its second-quarter really that bad? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Furniture Struggles With Its Brands Furniture Brands may be just like any other struggling furniture firm these days. Discerning the winners from the losers almost always comes down to certain investing basics, such as following the cash flow.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2005 Rich Smith	Street Spurns Stanley's Sweet Talk Furniture maker's solid quarterly numbers came with some baggage that may have unnerved potential suitors.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2004 Phil Wohl	Bassett Uses Elway To Drive Sales The furniture manufacturer looks to a legendary quarterback and refocuses on a direct retail concept.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Rich Smith	Ethan Allen Clears the Table Lowered expectations lead to a stock surge after the furniture retailer reports Q2 earnings.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: La-Z-Boy Unstuffed In advance of earnings reports, analysts expect the furniture manufacturer to show a slide in sales and a slight rise in profits.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Rich Smith	Unstuffing La-Z-Boy The furniture make disappointed investors this week. In response, shareholders dropped the stock 4% after the earnings report. Was it an over-reaction?
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Rich Smith	Stanley Still Short The tool maker's first-quarter was bad, and things will get worse before they get better. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2004 Matt Logan	La-Z-Boy's Sales Recline Remain seated: These earnings are nothing to get up for.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Ethan Allen Jilts the Jinx Year-over-year the furniture retailer reports a sales increase of 2.4%, despite uncertainty with respect to the economy and an overall softer retail environment.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Bassett Couches Another Quarter: Fool by Numbers The furniture maker released fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool January 23, 2007	Bassett Furnishes Earnings: Fool by Numbers The furniture company released fourth-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights...
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Rex Moore	One Stock to Get Hooked On Hooker Furniture is a family-run operation that was founded back in 1924, and it has all the things you like to see in a business, including a modest valuation.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Stanley Survives Though others in this space have suffered a downgrade, it seems investors have enough confidence in the first quarter 2006 earnings news that Stanley Furniture will report tomorrow that they're willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt here.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007	Bassett Furniture Sags: Fool by Numbers The furniture maker released first-quarter 2007 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool June 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Latches on to Profits Hooker Furniture decides that free trade is a good thing after all.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Rich Smith	La-Z-Boy Takes a Break After leaping more than 5% in anticipation of a strong quarterly report to end its fiscal year, shares of the upholstered furniture maker gave back a bit recently.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Way Too Much Furniture Brands Inventories grow far too fast at this furniture furnisher. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker Skewers Chinese Partners Hooker Furniture accuses its own Chinese partners of "dumping" product on the U.S. market.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Rich Smith	Reading Stanley's Signals The furniture maker is holding its own in a slowing industry. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2007	Sagging Sales at Bassett Furniture: Fool by Numbers The furniture maker and retailer released earnings for the second-quarter 2007: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Overachieving La-Z-Boy The furniture maker is set to report its quarterly earnings estimates. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Rich Duprey	A Threadbare Furniture Market Investors, the retail furniture industry is apparently having the stuffing beat out of it these days. A convergence of trends is making the industry look a little ragged.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: It's Herman Miller Time In advance of the office furniture specialist's first-quarter 2008 earnings results, analysts are expecting an increase in sales, although at a slowing pace.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Searching for Stanley Stanley's management said all the right things in its earnings release three months ago. Now shareholders need to make sure that management's deeds continue to match its words.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Hooker's Free Trade U-Turn The furniture maker outsources a lot of its furniture production to China, then signed on to an American funiture manufacturers complaint about China selling bedroom furniture too cheaply in the US. Chine responds by threatening slow production of other goods.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Ethan Allen Looks Solid Is the furniture industry turning around, or is Ethan Allen's success unique? Breaking with tradition, the furniture maker stated that it will achieve 8.5% earning growth in its third quarter, and it agrees with analysts estimates for its fourth quarter.