5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Murphy Oil

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 130,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, oil and gas producer and refiner Murphy Oil (NYSE: MUR  ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Murphy's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Murphy facts

Headquarters (founded)	El Dorado, Arkansas (1950)
Market Cap	$8.41 billion
Industry	Integrated Oil and Gas
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$27.48 billion
Management	CEO David Wood (since January 2009) CFO Kevin Fitzgerald (since January 2007)
Return on Equity (average, last three years)	21.5%
Dividend Yield	2.1%
Competitors	ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM  ) BP (NYSE: BP  )
CAPS members bullish on MUR also bullish on	ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP  ) Transocean (NYSE: RIG  )
CAPS members bearish on MUR also bearish on	Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO  ) Frontier Oil (NYSE: FTO  )

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, Yahoo! Finance, and Motley Fool CAPS.

Over on CAPS, fully 412 of the 423 members who have rated Murphy -- some 97% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include All-Star SpartanMAC and joeps3.

Two weeks ago, SpartanMAC noted that Murphy was a "magical" opportunity:

PE is at 5, while [TTM] ROE is above 25%. Annualized average projected EPS growth is in the double digits, and past book value growth backs that up. Insiders own over 7% of the stock. Part of Greenblatt strategy.

In a pitch from last month, joeps3 provides even more ratios to back up the bull case:

Murphy Oil Company has a debt/equity ratio of .16.... Murphy's income growth in the past 12 months is 127%.... Its P/E ratio is 5.2. This information isn't flashy or exciting, but shows definite signs of a very strong company with a good growth percentage. Great time to invest in a stock of a financially-strong company caught in a recession.

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