Based on the aggregated intelligence of 135,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, wireless technology developer InterDigital (Nasdaq: IDCC ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at InterDigital's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
InterDigital facts
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Headquarters (founded)
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King of Prussia, Pa. (1972)
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Market Cap
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$1.33 billion
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Industry
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Communications equipment
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TTM Revenue
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$259.2 million
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Management
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President/CEO William Merritt (since 2005)
CFO Scott McQuilkin (since 2007)
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Return on Equity (average, last three years)
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23.1%
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Cash/Debt
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$216.6 million / $1.5 million
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Other Highly Rated Communication Stocks
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Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ )
AT&T (NYSE: T )
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CAPS members bullish on IDCC also bullish on:
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL )
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB )
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CAPS members bearish on IDCC also bearish on:
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Ford Motor (NYSE: F )
UBS (NYSE: UBS )
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Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's), and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.
Over on CAPS, 978 of the 1,024 members who have rated InterDigital -- 95.5% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include cut4dough and All-Star PinochleHead, who is ranked in the top 10% of our community.
Just last month, cut4dough singled out InterDigital as particularly perfect for this series: "I really think that this company is poised for greatness. With their patent portfolio, winning record in litigation of those patents, and the current acceptance and proliferation of 3+ G technologies, they should see tremendous upside."
In an earlier pitch, PinochleHead expands on the stock's patented potential:
Wireless communications are one of the few areas currently showing substantial growth, and [InterDigital] holds a slew of patents on circuitry that makes those communications possible. They just concluded legal actions and contracts that raise their presence from being in about 20% of the cell phones and 802.11 wireless devices on the planet to being in about 50% of them, and they could at some point be literally getting a little piece of change from the sale of every single one. THAT is an attractive growth prospect.
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