Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, wafer-probe card maker FormFactor
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at FormFactor's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
FormFactor facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Livermore, Calif. (1993) |
| Market Cap | $281.1 million |
| Industry | Semiconductor equipment |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $169.3 million |
| Management | CEO Thomas St. Dennis (since 2010) CFO Michael Ludwig (since 2011) |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | (26.6%) |
| Cash/Debt | $296.7 million / $0 |
| Competitors |
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Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 98% of the 1,455 members who have rated FormFactor believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, Thronzoid, tapped the stock as a turnaround opportunity worth considering:
As depressed as it's gonna get. Lots of cash -- key for [FormFactor] is to get costs to breakeven, and extend their product line for testing of other devices besides just RAM. Need higher margin sales, need sales of testing solutions that leverage [FormFactor's] technical/complexity advantage.
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