4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: NetEase

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Chinese internet gaming leader NetEase.com (Nasdaq: NTES) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

NetEase facts

Headquarters (Founded)	Beijing (1997)
Market Cap	$5.8 billion
Industry	Internet software and services
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$472.4 million
Management	Founder/CEO William Lei Ding CFO Onward Choi
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)	38.5%
Cash / Debt	$909.4 million / $0
Competitors	SINA (Nasdaq: SINA) Sohu (Nasdaq: SOHU) Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO)
CAPS Members Bullish on NTES Also Bullish on	Apple
CAPS Members Bearish on NTES Also Bearish on	Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 97% of the 1,122 members who have rated NetEase believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include MavenPicker and All-Star SarahGen, who is ranked in the top 0.2% of our community.

Just last month, MavenPicker motivated Fools to get into the game:

Company offering gaming online and internet portal, successfully operating in China with rapid growth and great opportunity. Reminiscent of Activision Blizzard [ (Nasdaq: ATVI)] at an earlier stage. Excellent financials and prospects as the Chinese population increasingly adopts gaming and internet communication.

In a pitch from three days later, SarahGen also tapped NetEase as an ideal way to ease into battle:

[NetEase] is sitting on the [World of Warcraft] goldmine, and any day now they're going to start seeing the goodies from that. Picked this a little early into the current China selloff, but it will turnaround with the China market in general and quickly outpace those gains with that little cash generator -- [World of Warcraft].

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