Hold - Price 3.07 on Nov. 27
by Wedbush Morgan

This retailer of home furnishings, accessories, and gourmet foods and beverages, including beer and wine, has 296 stores in 34 states. We are lowering our target to 4, from 6....The difficult housing market is hurting sales of home furnishing, as [is] the credit crunch. Market cap: $68 million.

Expert's pick

Upgraded by AG Edwards from Sell to Hold

Cost Plus (CPWM)
Red Mountain Capital Partners raised its holdings to 2,164,211 shares (9.8%), by buying 291,100 from Dec. 27 to Jan. 5 at $10.01 to $10.33 each.

Hate may be too strong avoid. But It should be avoided.

For TTM ending April 30,2007 reported Negative Free Cash CLow of ($3.60) per share down from a positive $0.53 for the comparable TTM ending April 2006