Based on the aggregated intelligence of 135,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, digital television equipment maker China Digital TV (NYSE: STV ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at China Digital's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
China Digital facts
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Headquarters (founded)
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Beijing, China (2004)
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Market Cap
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$522.87 million
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Industry
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Application software
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TTM Revenue
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$67.4 million
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Management
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Co-Founder/CEO Jianhua Zhu
CFO Liang Xu
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TTM Return on Equity
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15.9%
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Competitors
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Kudelski
NDS Group
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CAPS members bullish on STV also bullish on
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL )
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG )
Vale (NYSE: VALE )
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CAPS members bearish on STV also bearish on
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Baidu.com (Nasdaq: BIDU )
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC )
Citigroup (NYSE: C )
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Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.
Over on CAPS, fully 603 of the 633 members who have rated China Digital -- some 95% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include k007005 and sysun.
Last month, k007005 tapped China Digital as a scintillating stock to keep watching:
Cable TV is booming in China, the government is pushing the people of the most populate nation in the world to get digital. The company who has 50% of the market will benefit very soon from this.
In a pitch from one month earlier, sysun elaborated smartly:
China Digital TV is a Chinese company which makes smart-cards, a key component in the set-top boxes which every Chinese television will need to hook up to in order to link into a digital cable network. With the government mandated conversion to digital cable by 2015, [China Digital] has a huge market to potentially capture. As [China Digital] is already the majority market leader (51% of market share and growing), it is very unlikely for the company to end up with anything less than 50% of the future smart-card market. ...
Additionally, [China Digital] has $0 debt, over $3 per share in cash and accessible liquidity, a 60% net margin as mentioned, and almost no capex.
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