Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Procter & Gamble's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Procter & Gamble facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Cincinnati (1837) |
| Market Cap | $164.4 billion |
| Industry | Household products |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $85.4 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO Robert McDonald CFO Jon Moeller |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 16.3% |
| Cash/Debt | $4.0 billion / $33.1 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 3.8% |
| Competitors |
Johnson & Johnson Kimberly-Clark Unilever |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 7,672 members who have rated Procter & Gamble believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just yesterday, one of those Fools, RyanG34, tapped management's recent restructuring efforts as a solid catalyst for outsized gains:
[Procter & Gamble] is cutting thousands of jobs and has ditched non-related companies in order to strengthen its core competencies. These efforts will pay off. Not to mention while you wait for these efforts to pay off you get a nice 3.7% dividend.
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