5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: TriQuint Semiconductor

By Brian D. Pacampara
October 28, 2009 | Comments (1)

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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, mobile phone chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TQNT) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

TriQuint facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Hillsboro, Ore. (1981)

Market Cap

$826.8 million

Industry

Semiconductors

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$610 million

Management

CEO Ralph Quinsey

CFO Steven Buhaly

Compound Annual Revenue Growth (Over Past 3 Years)

21.9%

Cash/Debt

$134.6 million / $0

Large-Cap Semiconductor Alternatives

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)

AMD (NYSE: AMD)

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN)

CAPS Members Bullish on TQNT Also Bullish on

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ)

CAPS Members Bearish on TQNT Also Bearish on

Ford Motor (NYSE: F)

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

On CAPS, 97% of the 249 members who have rated TriQuint believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include joats5 and All-Star TSIF, who is ranked in the top 2% of our community.

Just last Friday, joats5 tapped TriQuint's recent profit miss as a can't-miss opportunity:

Parts provider for the coming "Cellular Tsunami". Down almost 30% on recent bad earning report but indications are that they still are positioned to benefit from global economic surge in 2010.

In a pitch from one day earlier, TSIF adds some color to the stock's latest haircut:

TriQuint announced a 7% revenue slide, which on the surface doesn't seem to warrant a 28% stock hit. They also announced that orders from one of their two [Korean] customers were cut drastically as the customer burned off inventory. ... For a company whose share price has been near a 5 year high and that continues good growth and has minimal debt, I'm bullish on TriQuint at this entry point. It may take it a few quarters to convince Mr. Market … but with chip sells to many of the major handset makers it appears to have some decent momentum.

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Fool contributor Brian Pacampara owns no position in any of the companies mentioned. Intel is a Motley Fool Inside Value pick, Apple is a Stock Advisor selection, and Johnson & Johnson is a choice of Income Investor. The Fool's disclosure policy always gets a perfect score.

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  • Report this Comment On October 29, 2009, at 8:42 AM, bike5389 wrote:

    Looking at one Qtr.is not the way to judge the growth of Triquint. Look over the last 2 years of growth and increase in margins .If you do the research you will see that Triquint is in most of the leading edge smart phones (including #1 I Phone). Triquint also has a huge role in the military according to the CC they will have 100,000 $ of content in thousands of new jet fighters. Together with it's pristine financial (zero debt) this is a BUY!

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