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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1999
Page
11
The Fool explains ROA by splitting into net profit margin and asset turnover to show drivers of return. It defines payout ratio as dividends divided by net income per share using Buzzy's Broccoli Beer as example, showing how earnings are allocated between dividends and reinvestment.
A reader recounts errors from The Motley Fool portfolio including Innevex slipping over 40 percent after a purchase and missing Amazon.com in 1997 while it surged. The note emphasizes learning from mistakes and invites readers to submit concise lessons for potential publication.
The company founded in 1962 in San Mateo by the Radio Shack founder grew to over 750 stores and over $1 billion in sales last year. Its private-label credit card serves about 3 million people and accounts for roughly a quarter of revenue, while furniture makes up about a third. The catalog includes items from 50 countries, mainly sold in North America, and the firm posted a return on equity above 21 percent in 1998.
The piece traces Goldman Sachs from its 1869 New York origins as a private partnership founded by a German immigrant and his son in law to becoming a leading private firm aiming to go public. It notes MBAs recruited in the 1920s, advisory roles for Sears Roebuck and Ford, and full asset management scales reaching about 195 billion under management by 1998 with 300 billion under supervision.
Piazza turns whole leaf tea into tiny boxed teas with round balls and loopy slogans. He travels to coffeehouses, selling to shops from Connecticut to California, growing from 800 profit in year one to steady expansion due to a Web site and select stores.
A prank on April Fools Day announced an IPO of eMeringue, a former auto parts business now an Internet retailer selling meringue toppings. Shares wildly fluctuated before falling to zero, with splits announced, and a lesson on avoiding hype and selective disclosure in public markets.
The text urges building liquidity with three to six months of expenses, using assets like cash and Treasuries, and notes the value of unemployment insurance. It discusses disability coverage, workers compensation, and Social Security, plus options for self employed individuals such as MSAs and individual disability policies. It also advises pre paying college, boosting retirement contributions, and obtaining wills and powers of attorney.
Catalog Age lists Cabela's 1997 catalog and Internet sales at about 420 million dollars, ranking 29th among print catalog companies. The piece notes Cabela's focus on outdoor apparel and gear, assembled by various makers or designed in house, and describes founder couple and family-driven early growth.
A playful look at the Mattey Fool persona inspired by Shakespearean fools who speak blunt truths to power. The piece reflects on investing satire as the fool reveals financial insight and hopes the audience laughs all the way to the bank.
IHOP Corp operates International House of Pancakes with most units franchised to active workers. The company finances new units, earns initial franchise fees, loan interest, and ongoing royalties. Earnings rose from $15 million in 1994 to $26 million in 1998, with net margins near 10 percent and expansion potential ahead.
Cabela's, the mailorder outdoor retailer based in Sidney Nebraska, operates stores in Sidney and Kearney Nebraska Owatonna Minnesota and Prairie du Chien Wisconsin with a fifth site planned in East Grand Forks Minnesota. It runs telemarketing in Grand Island and Kearney a customer service center in North Platte and a merchandise returns facility in Oshkosh. Catalogs and goods ship to all 50 states and 129 countries. Spokesmen include University of Nebraska coach Tom Osborne and former Minnesota Viking Bud Grant both hunters with Grant sometimes modeling in catalogs.
Four years after mimed sheets became a catalog, Dick Cabela built a mail order business into a Sid ney Nebraska headquarters. The operation employs 700 plus in Stoney with a flagship store drawing about 1 million visitors annually. The Sidney site features a 27 foot tall replica mountain with trophies and a waterfall, drawing travelers who camp in the parking lot overnight.
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