Based on the aggregated intelligence of 145,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, online family history resource Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.

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

Ancestry.com facts

Headquarters

Provo, Utah

Market Cap

$598.3 million

Industry

Internet software and services

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$217.2 million

Management

CEO Timothy Sullivan (since 2005)

CFO Howard Hochhauser (since 2009)

Trailing-12-Month Net Income Margin

5.1%

Cash/Debt

$60.6 million / $114.7 million

Price-to-Earnings (ACOM and Industry)

50.6 and 26.1

Competitors

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)

CAPS Members Bearish on ACOM Also Bearish on

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO)

Baidu.com (NASDAQ:BIDU)

CAPS Members Bullish on ACOM Also Bullish on

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY)

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)

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

On CAPS, 42% of the 24 members who have rated Ancestry.com believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears All-Star mistercube and illstocks.

Late last year, mistercube voiced skepticism over the company's business model:

[F]or the genealogical fanatic, aren't [Ancestry.com's] services exhausted in the course of a year's subscription? (ANOTHER HINT: Aren't yearly subscriptions a way of front-loading earnings?) What happens when the [subscriptions] disappear?...

Only if one of Google's search competitors decides this would make a nice addition to an eclectic portfolio (and overpays for the privilege) does this stock outperform the S&P.

In a pitch from four days earlier, illstocks shares that bearish sentiment:

How will they make a profit for investors? There are plenty of free sites on the Internet offering free genealogy products, why should this be any different? I heard they want to use their site as a social gathering place to find out about ancestry. Facebook could easily make an application from a rival company that has all those features. I am not convinced what this company has to offer that is attractive, so at the moment i don't think it will be a good investment.

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