5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Endo Pharmaceuticals

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 130,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, drug developer Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings (Nasdaq: ENDP) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

Endo facts

Headquarters (Founded)	Chadds Ford, Pa. (1997)
Market Cap	$1.89 Billion
Industry	Pharmaceuticals
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$1.31 Billion
Management	CEO David Holveck (Since 2008), CFO Edward Sweeney (Since 2008)
Return on Capital (Average, Past Three Years)	18.2%
Competitors	Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), Merck (NYSE: MRK)
CAPS members bullish on ENDP also bullish on	Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), General Electric (NYSE: GE)
CAPS members bearish on ENDP also bearish on	Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU), Ambac Financial (NYSE: ABK)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 347 of the 364 members who have rated Endo -- 95% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include Trimalerus, who is ranked in the top 0.05% of our community, and the third-ranked member in all of CAPS tenmiles.

Last month, Trimalerus followed one of CAPS' leaders and highlighted Endo as a healthy play:

This stock has good profitability and looks to be a good buy under $18. Obama has promised to have our Healthcare System overhauled by the end of the year and this is one stock that should see a benefit. Also tenmiles one of my favorite members just picked this to outperform. Crowd sourcing rocks!

In the aforementioned pitch from tenmiles, Endo gets tapped as a particularly potent portfolio-pain killer: "Adding a little Percocet to the portfolio. Pharma dealing with various pain control products offers strong balance sheet with high ROE; likely to show relative strength later in the summer in advance of FDA decision on marketing application for NEBIDO -- buyer around $18."

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