5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: VASCO

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 135,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, security software specialist VASCO Data Security International (Nasdaq: VDSI) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

VASCO facts

Headquarters (founded)	Terrace, Ill. (1996)
Market Cap	$280.03 million
Industry	Security software and services
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$127.2 million
Management	CEO Kendall Hunt (since 2002) COO Jan Valcke (since 2002)
Compound Annual Revenue and Net Income Growth (over last five years)	39.9% and 51.6%
Competitors	ActivIdentity (Nasdaq: ACTI) Entrust
CAPS Members Bullish on VDSI Also Bullish on	Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) General Electric (NYSE: GE) Cemex (NYSE: CX)
CAPS Members Bearish on VDSI Also Bearish on	Ford (NYSE: F) First Marblehead (NYSE: FMD)

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

Over on CAPS, 658 of the 665 members who have rated VASCO -- or 99% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include tmarkjones and Babachrono, both of whom are ranked in the top 20% of our community.

Just yesterday, tmarkjones reminded our community that VASCO "is a growth company in a market that will soon be growing again." Our CAPS All-Star concludes: "We're on the backend of the banking crisis and [VASCO] is well positioned to take advantage of the resumption of economic growth in 2010."

In a pitch from last month, Babachrono helped Fools feel even more secure:

25% insider and only 38% institutional ownership. No LT debt and a huge cash reserve, paid off a large chunk of payables and still have over $50M cash on hand is 1/6 of their market cap. They have good products and total security solutions from software/programs to the servers that they all run on. Many companies have been cutting spending, and I feel several will find their decision to cut in security will bit them and force them to come running to [VASCO] as the economy turns and they find themselves in need up updates and making cash again.

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