Based on the aggregated intelligence of 165,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, solid state drive (SSD) specialist SMART Modular Technologies (Nasdaq: SMOD) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

SMART facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Newark, Calif. (1988)

Market Cap

$371 million

Industry

Electronic manufacturing services

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$584 million

Management

CEO Iain MacKenzie (since 2005)
CFO Barry Zwarenstein (since 2008)

Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)

6.5%

Cash / Debt

$106 million / $55 million

Competitors

SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK)
STEC (Nasdaq: STEC)

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

On CAPS, 94% of the 340 members who have rated SMART believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include AlbertaBorn and Foolish colleague Anders Bylund (TMFZahrim), who is ranked in the top 5% of our community.

Just last month, AlbertaBorn tapped SMART as a particularly smart selection: "Looks like good growth prospects, and exceptionally cheap for the industry. Also selling at a fraction of its 12 month high."

SMART's impressive third-quarter results make its recent stock price slide all the more attractive. Despite posting market-topping revenue and earnings growth in June, SMART continues to find its shares down 30% over the last three months, while rivals like SanDisk and STEC are up 20% and 28%, respectively, in the same period. With powerhouse customers Hewlett-Packard (Nasdaq: HPQ), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), and Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) already accounting for about half of its sales, Fools like Anders think SMART is a solid way to bet on big long-term growth:

SMART is expanding its horizons at the moment by launching enterprise-class solid-state drives and consumer-level Flash memory products. Thanks to a recent decline in memory chip prices and resurgent demand for computer systems and other electronic gadgets, along with entry into the nascent SSD market, I can see SMART growing sales at this impressive clip for the next two years and beyond. The trick is to keep building out manufacturing capacity in step with demand, and management is on the ball in that sense.

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