Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Japanese office electronics manufacturer Canon
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Canon's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Canon facts
| Headquarters (Founded) | Tokyo (1937) |
| Market Cap | $51.8 billion |
| Industry | Office electronics |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $47.5 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO Fujio Mitarai CFO T. Tanaka |
| Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 7% |
| Cash/Debt | $11.1 billion / $218 million |
| Dividend Yield | 3.7% |
| Competitors |
Dell Hewlett-Packard Xerox |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 494 members who have rated Canon believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include abwell and All-Star Staka, who is ranked in the top 2% of our community.
Just last month, abwell touched on a few of the factors working in Canon's favor: "It will outperform because Canon has just made a string of positive business announcements such as a new must-have professional camera, a new line of printers along with a partnership with the PIXMA printing cloud, and a new motion pictures department."
Currently, Canon even boasts a rather comforting debt-to-equity of less than 1%. That's substantially lower than that of office equipment competitors like Dell (95%), HP (66%), and Xerox (69%).
CAPS All-Star Staka elaborates on Canon's pros and cons:
Positive:
- Blue chip with good dividend and [little debt]
- High tech, participates and leads in many hot trends
- Manufacturing in China, research in Japan -> strong Yen no disadvantage
Negative:
- Cyclical stock, not recession proof
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