Based on the aggregated intelligence of 120,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, digital video recorder company TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO ) has received a distressing two-star ranking. While one-star stocks have been the worst performers, our data has shown that two-star stocks still lag the market by a significant margin and should be approached with caution; conversely, highly-rated stocks have outperformed the S&P.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at TiVo's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
TiVo facts
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Headquarters (founded)
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Alviso, Calif. (1997)
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Market Cap
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$730.50 million
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Industry
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Application Software
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TTM Revenue
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$264.61 million
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Management
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CEO Thomas Rogers
Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer James Barton
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Annual Revenue Growth (average, past five years and TTM)
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17.5% and (3.9%)
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Competitors
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Sony (NYSE: SNE )
Motorola (NYSE: MOT )
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CAPS members bearish on TIVO also bearish on:
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Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI )
Ford
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CAPS members bullish on TIVO also bullish on:
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Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX )
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT )
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Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.
Over on CAPS, fully 185 of the 925 members who have rated TiVo -- some 20% -- believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include tklong and CAPS All-Star Joker1001.
In late October, tklong noted that TiVo "didn't update their technology as quickly as they needed to, and worse, they are being outperformed by lock in contracts like [DIRECTV Group] dvr and [Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA ) ]. ... These deals are running Tivo right out of the market and negating their product."
In a more recent pitch last week, Joker1001 shares that bearish attitude, citing TiVo's deteriorating market share as reason to stay away:
Go to any electronics store and look at how many Tivo's are sitting around. People are using cable and satellite-based DVR's; they're cheaper, as easy to use, and are HD friendly. Digital transition in 2009 won't make much of a difference, if you've got a 25-year-old TV the last thing you're going to buy is a DVR.
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