Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, container lessor Textainer Group Holdings
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Textainer's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Textainer facts
Headquarters (founded) | Hamilton, Bermuda (1979) |
Market Cap | $1.7 billion |
Industry | Rental and leasing services |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $449.1 million |
Management | CEO Philip Brewer (since October 2011) CFO Hilliard Terry, III (since January 2012) |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 23.9% |
Cash/Debt | $76.4 million / $1.6 billion |
Dividend Yield | 4.8% |
Competitors |
CAI International Seaco Stolt-Nielsen |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 196 members who have rated Textainer believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those bulls, Suleymania, helped bring the opportunity to our community's attention:
I drove around the Port of Long Beach yesterday and saw lots of their red boxes on ships, trucks and trains. Container leasing seems like a way of investing in increasing trade while mitigating the impact of commodity prices on trucking and railroads. [Textainer] has good-to-very-good financial performance on every measure except long-term debt. Nothing I found in the container leasing space was even close.
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