4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: A-Power

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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, Chinese power equipment provider A-Power Energy Generation Systems (Nasdaq: APWR) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

A-Power facts

Headquarters (founded)	Shenyang, China (2003)
Market Cap	$241.33 million
Industry	Heavy electrical equipment
TTM Revenue	$263.73 million
Management	CEO Jinxiang Lu (since January 2008) CFO Kin Mak (since May 2009)
Revenue and Net Income Growth (over prior year)	57.5% and 65.1%
Competitors	Suzlon Energy Dongfang Electric
CAPS members bullish on APWR also bullish on	General Electric (NYSE: GE) Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) Vale (NYSE: VALE)
CAPS members bearish on APWR also bearish on	Ford Motor (NYSE: F) Citigroup (NYSE: C) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC)

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, 576 of the 599 members who have rated A-Power -- some 96% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include lotsofmojo and titaniumsilver.

In May, lotsofmojo tapped A-Power as a powerful way to get some wind behind your portfolio:

With so many around, it is difficult to determine which solar company will survive. Seems like a good alternative might be to go with [A-Power] which is in a joint venture with GE to produce wind turbines in China.

Excellent cash position with no debt. Decent short term potential with very good long term prospects.

In an earlier pitch, titaniumsilver expands on the stock as a greenish way to earn green:

It's clear that the Chinese govt wants clean energy. A-Power makes distributed generation systems. There are several advantages to these systems, they reduce pollution, reduce dependency on unreliable central sources of electricity and pay for themselves in a few years.

A-Power has also been building up their wind turbine capacity. They will have the capacity to generate 1GW of power through wind. That matches the capacity of many solar companies yet this is not priced in the value of the stock. It's like getting the wind business for free.

A-Power is building itself into a multi-faceted solution provider of clean energy. This is the kind of company that the world will need in order to meet future energy demands.

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