4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Illumina

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 135,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, genetic analysis company Illumina (Nasdaq: ILMN) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Illumina's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Illumina facts

Headquarters (founded)	San Diego (1998)
Market Cap	$4.76 billion
Industry	Life Sciences Tools and Services
TTM Revenue	$617.1 million
Management	CEO Jay Flatley (since 1999) CFO Christian Henry (since 2005)
Compound Annual Revenue Growth (over last five years)	78%
Competitors	Affymetrix (Nasdaq: AFFX) Life Technologies
CAPS members bullish on ILMN also bullish on	Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Marvel (NYSE: MVL)
CAPS members bearish on ILMN also bearish on	Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR)

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 500 of the 545 members who have rated Illumina -- some 92% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include Ybean and All-Star Gumfactor, who is ranked in the top 5% of our community.

Late last year, Ybean noted that Illumina "is the current market leader in DNA sequencing and SNP [single nucleotide polymorphism] detection." Our CAPS member concludes: "As more and more Universities and Institutes start buying its products, Illumina's revenue will continue its exponential growth for the next few years."

In a more recent pitch from April, Gumfactor illuminates on Illumina's healthy stimulant:

I work in neuroscience/genetic research. And let me tell you -- the whole scientific community is dancing in the streets over the stimulus funds that were given to NIH [National Institutes of Health]. Currently NIH is offering grants of up to $2 million that are dedicated to equipment and infrastructure. Which means that over the next two years, companies that make biological/genetic/laboratory equipment are going to be showing exorbitant growth. I don't know about long-term perspectives on any of these companies, but for the next two years, they're gold.

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