Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, enterprise-software giant Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

Oracle facts

Headquarters (founded) Redwood City, Calif. (1977)
Market Cap $135.2 billion
Industry Systems software
Trailing-12-Month Revenue $37 billion
Management Co-founder/CEO Lawrence Ellison
CFO Safra Catz
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) 23.1%
Cash/Debt $29.7 billion / $14.8 billion
Dividend Yield 0.9%
Competitors IBM
Microsoft
SAP

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 94% of the 3,630 members who have rated Oracle believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.  

Just last month, one of those Fools, JohnStuartMill, highlighted Oracle as a solid way to get into the cloud:

Cloud computing continues to chug along and [Oracle] is one of the leaders. Acquisition growth has stepped up recently with [RightNow Technologies] and Taleo. This should keep them ahead of the pack. No integration issues have been publicized, so we should be good to grow.

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