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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].

What do you think about NetEase, or any other stock for that matter? Make your voice heard on Motley Fool CAPS today. The CAPS community is waiting to hear your opinions. CAPS is 100% free, so get started!  

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Fool contributor Brian Pacampara owns no position in any of the companies mentioned. Baidu, NetEase.com, and Sohu.com are Motley Fool Rule Breakers picks. Apple, Activision Blizzard, and Sina are Stock Advisor picks. The Fool's disclosure policy always gets a perfect score.


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  • Report this Comment On September 23, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Jorn28 wrote:

    NetEase has been kind to me, but Perfect World PWRD) has more than doubled in the time i have had them both and is not mentioned as a competitor.I am holding on to both.

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