2-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: New Oriental?

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 145,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Chinese education services provider New Oriental Education and Technology Group (NYSE: EDU) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

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

New Oriental facts

Headquarters (Founded)	Beijing (1993)
Market Cap	$2.7 billion
Industry	Diversified consumer services
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$324 million
Management	Founder/CEO Minhong Yu CFO Louis Hsieh
1-Year Return	41%
Cash/Debt	$368 million / $0
Other Low-Rated Education Stocks	Apollo Group (Nasdaq: APOL) Strayer Education (Nasdaq: STRA)
CAPS Members Bearish on EDU Also Bearish on	Direxion Shares ETF Trust Large Cap Bull 3X (NYSE: BGU)
CAPS Members Bullish on EDU Also Bullish on	Ctrip.com (Nasdaq: CTRP) China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)

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

On CAPS, 36.5% of the 274 All-Star members who have rated New Oriental believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. Among the entire bear population are dexion10 and mrindependent, who is ranked in the top 2% of our community.

Earlier this month, dexion10 pointedly schooled Fools on what a risky situation looks like: "[A] chinese stock that teaches english at a ridiculous valuation - above private sector transactions in its space - while the industry approaches saturation and as the US dominance is ending... and you want a thesis from me really."

In a pitch from last week, mrindependent, following the lead of short-selling website Citron Research, also urged investors to skip out on the stock:

New Oriental Education teaches english in China. This company is profitable and growing but its valuations are stratospheric at 36 times trailing p/e and 7 times book value. Citron Research asserts that new competitors are emerging and barriers to entry are minimal. Thus, margins and profitability will decline.

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