5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Fluor

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 120,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, engineering and construction company Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has earned a coveted five-star ranking. Our data has shown that five-star stocks outperform the market by a significant margin; conversely, one-star stocks have woefully lagged the market average.

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

Fluor facts

Headquarters (founded)	Irving, Texas (1912)
Market Cap	$6.68 billion
Industry	Engineering and Construction
TTM Revenue	$20.97 billion
Management	CEO Alan Boeckmann (since 2002) CFO D. Michael Steuert (since 2001)
Return on Equity (average last three years)	22.2%
Dividend Yield	1.3%
Competitors	Foster Wheeler (Nasdaq: FWLT) KBR (NYSE: KBR)
CAPS members bullish on FLR also bullish on	Transocean (NYSE: RIG) PotashCorp (NYSE: POT)
CAPS members bearish on FLR also bearish on	Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) Citigroup (NYSE: C)

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 110 of the 120 All-Star members who have rated Fluor -- some 92% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These Foolish bulls include TadpolesUS and falcon2382, both of whom are ranked in the top 2% of our community.

Two days ago, TadpolesUS had this to say of the stock: "Now at $40, it's a bargain. Lots of ongoing projects, good management, and a decent dividend."

A pitch from falcon2382 just one month earlier shares that bullish sentiment, writing:

Fluor will surely get a great deal of future US and China infrastructure projects. In the US especially, infrastructure will not only be looked to as an economic stimulus package, but it is actually severely needed. We are talking about 1.8 or so trillion dollars worth of work that is needed across the country -- and that is not even taking into consideration new and alternative energy projects that its Power segment will have access to.

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