Based on the aggregated intelligence of 165,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, graphics-chip maker NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

NVIDIA facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Santa Clara, Calif. (1993)

Market Cap

$6 billion

Industry

Semiconductors

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$3.66 billion

Management

Co-Founder/CEO Jen-Hsun Huang

CFO David White

Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)

9.8%

Cash/Debt

$1.76 billion / $24.1 million

Competitors

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)

AMD (NYSE: AMD)

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

On CAPS, 97.5% of the 1,333All-Star members who have rated NVIDIA believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include UltraLong and TMFRhino, who are ranked in the top 2% of our community.

Less than two months ago, UltraLong noted that NVIDIA "has more cash than they know what to do with, currently $3 per share." Our CAPS All-Star concludes: "I dare you to find a better graphics chip producer out there. Don't worry about any slowing down in their business or any insider dumping, [NVIDIA] always bounces back."

NVIDIA may produce the world's best graphics chips, but you'll never know it by looking at its stock price. General semiconductor weakness, launch delays, and intensifying competition (specifically, the decision of both Intel and AMD to start integrating high-end graphics chips into their mainstream processors) have helped push NVIDIA's shares down 44% in 2010. But with NVIDIA now trading at a forward P/E of 10 and its new chip architecture, Fermi, all set to take the stage, All-Stars like TMFRhino look at the recent weakness as a tasty long-term opportunity:

I think their brand is still strong with buyers, they're pushing into some high tech areas that could continue to be differentiators with AMD (New cards taking advantage of tesselation, other advanced 3-D features which appeal to their core enthusiast market).

Also, with China/Asia now as their largest market for graphics cards, I think their addressable market could grow faster than the average stock-picker might think by looking at a chart of PC sales growth. ...

Even if the company faces the possibility of some market share losses and shrinking margins over the next year, I prefer their long-term vision to AMD's. If they can evangelize Tesla as a platform for supercomputing and continue growing the role of graphics processors on workstations, I think there's some fantastic growth opportunities in the coming years.

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