Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, data-storage specialist EMC (NYSE: EMC ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at EMC and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
EMC facts
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Headquarters (founded)
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Hopkinton, Mass. (1979)
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Market Cap
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$51.7 billion
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Industry
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Computer storage and peripherals
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue
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$21.7 billion
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Management
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Chairman/CEO Joseph Tucci
President/COO/CFO David Goulden
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years)
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12.8%
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Cash/Debt
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$6.2 billion / $1.7 billion
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Competitors
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Hewlett-Packard
Hitachi Data Systems
IBM
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Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 3,827 members who have rated EMC believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, Maxgarcia, succinctly summed up the bull case for our community:
EMC is a $50 billion storage giant, with solid growth prospects in the rapidly growing cloud-computing and Big Data arenas. It also holds an 80% ownership stake in virtualization specialist VMware. EMC has been held back some by softness in technology spending due to a weak global economy, but that won't last forever. In the meantime, it has struck a partnership with Lenovo, which might help it in China, and its recent earnings report was solid, with strong operating income growth.
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