Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, fluid control systems provider Flowserve
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Flowserve's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Flowserve facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Irving, Texas (1912) |
| Market Cap | $6.4 billion |
| Industry | Industrial machinery |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $4.6 billion |
| Management | CEO Mark Blinn (since October 2009) CFO Michael Taff (since January 2012) |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 21.4% |
| Cash/Debt | $172.7 million / $501.3 million |
| Dividend Yield | 1.2% |
| Competitors |
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Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 98% of the 865 members who have rated Flowserve believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those bulls, All-Star TMFDeej, tapped the stock as a particularly attractive special situation: "Flowserve is a new position for the successful activist Relational Investors. I believe that they can cause [Flowserve] to outperform the S&P 500 by agitating certain changes at the company."
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