Monday
The new trading week starts with the skinny on CMGI (NASDAQ:CMGI). If you were around during the bubble-blowing days of the Internet stocks revolution in the mid-to-late 1990s, you may remember CMGI as a dot-com darling for its @ventures subsidiary that served as an incubator for promising Web upstarts. The company has since gone back to basics. It may not be as sexy as the old CMGI, but its been able to at least break even during five of the past six quarters.
Tuesday
You can then make yourself at home when La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) brings back its signature recliner long enough to wrap up its fiscal 2006. The Motley Fool Income Investor pick has been winning back skeptics this year, hiking its dividend last month and blowing away analyst estimates its last time out. It's been a pretty remarkable turnaround story for a company that was struggling until that point.
Wednesday
You may want to keep a moist towelette handy for H&R Block (NYSE:HRB) as the tax filing specialist reports on its seasonally strongest quarter. The wet towel? That's to wipe the egg off its face after the company's humiliating confession that it couldn't get its own corporate taxes right. Let's hope that Wednesday is a day of redemption.
Thursday
Another hand will be dealt when Shuffle Master (NASDAQ:SHFL) reports on Thursday. The Motley Fool Stock Advisor recommendation is expected to earn $0.22 a share for the period. That's a mild uptick from the $0.19 per share that the maker of automatic card shufflers and other casino products had earned a year earlier.
Friday
We will close out the first complete trading week in June with Signet (NYSE:SIG). If you're not familiar with the company, you can tap into your inner Anglophile to discover that the London-based company is actually the world's leading jewelry retailer. Let's see what the company was able to "ring" up this time around.
Until next week, I remain,
Rick Munarriz
Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz recommends windshield wiper fluid when trying to look forward. He does not own shares in any of the companies in this story. The Fool has a disclosure policy. He is also part of the Rule Breakers newsletter research team, seeking out tomorrow's ultimate growth stocks a day early.
