2-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Sunrise Senior Living?

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, senior home operator Sunrise Senior Living (NYSE: SRZ) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

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

Sunrise facts

Headquarters (Founded)	McLean, Va. (1981)
Market Cap	$206.34 million
Industry	Health-care facilities
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$1.66 billion
Management	CEO Mark Ordan (since November 2008) CFO Julie Pangelinan (since June 2009)
Trailing-12-Month Return on Capital	(8.4%)
3-Month Return	92%
Cash/Debt	$37 million / $614.5 million
Competitors	Ecolab (NYSE: ECL) Kindred Healthcare
CAPS Members Bearish on SRZ Also Bearish on	Dollar Thrifty Automotive (NYSE: DTG) Targacept (Nasdaq: TRGT)
CAPS Members Bullish on SRZ Also Bullish on	General Electric (NYSE: GE) Citigroup (NYSE: C) Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)

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

On CAPS, 17% of the 161 All-Star members who have rated Sunrise believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include UltraContrarian and UltraLong, the top-ranked stock picker in all of CAPS.

Late last month, UltraContrarian warned Fools that Sunrise isn't as a beautiful as it seems: "Highly unprofitable and indebted. Recent debt negotiation and asset sales will produce big one-time profits, but [Sunrise] will soon be back to their money-burning ways."

In a pitch from two weeks earlier, UltraLong expands on Sunrise's recent asset sales as an awfully false ray of hope:

Can't make money on your living communities? Sell off the only profitable communities you have in your stock! I'm appalled how this company even has a positive book value.

Thus begins my assault on the garbage stocks … the group of companies completely unworthy of the 100-500% runs they've seen over the past 2-3 months. Analysts should treat this one-time gain on the sale of their ONLY profitable properties the same way they treat the one-time (yet continuing) losses … ignore it. [Sunrise] will be back to losing money in no time, they've patented that business.

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