Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, navigation-device maker Garmin (GRMN 1.07%) has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Garmin and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Garmin facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
Schaffhausen, Switzerland (2000) |
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Market Cap |
$7.6 billion |
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Industry |
Consumer electronics |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$2.9 billion |
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Management |
Chairman/CEO Min-Hwan Kao |
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
22.4% |
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Cash/Debt |
$1.4 billion / $0 |
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Dividend Yield |
4.3% |
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Competitors |
Apple (AAPL 0.51%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 10% of the 1,078 All-Star members who have rated Garmin believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this week, one of those bears, fellow Fool John Divine (TMFDivine), succinctly summed up the underperform case for our community:
I don't think, in this day and age, you can make it as a company SOLELY focused on GPS technology. Google has the power, resources, and foresight to disrupt a lot of areas, and this is obviously one of them. At the very least it seems to me that [Garmin] will have to cut its dividend in the coming years.
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