Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, iron ore miner Cliffs Natural Resources
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Cliffs' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Cliffs facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Cleveland (1847) |
| Market Cap | $6.5 billion |
| Industry | Steel |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $6.9 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO Joseph Carrabba CFO Laurie Brlas |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 27.3% |
| Cash/Debt | $122.3 million / $4.0 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 5.5% |
| Competitors |
Alpha Natural Resources CONSOL Energy Peabody Energy |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 1,517 members who have rated Cliffs believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just yesterday, one of those bulls, MarkP28665, tapped the stock as a particularly solid bargain opportunity: "[Cliffs] is cheap. It might get cheaper with a market wide downturn but at under 5x earnings and a nice dividend I intend to sit on this until the demand for steel improves which in turn would raise the demand for [Cliffs] iron ore and coke."
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