5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Westport Innovations (WPRT)

5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Westport Innovations

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, alternative fuel technologist Westport Innovations (Nasdaq: WPRT ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

Westport facts


Headquarters (Founded)	Vancouver, Canada (1995)
Market Cap	$1.34 billion
Industry	Auto parts
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$203.6 million
Management	Founder/CEO David Demers CFO William Larkin
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)	(49.7%)
Cash/Debt	$105.6 million / $87.3 million

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 98% of the 787 members who have rated Westport believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include ctrivermouth and All-Star Chemdawg, who is ranked in the top 5% of our community.

Just last month , ctrivermouth touched on the trends working in Westport's favor: "Oil prices only going up, [natural gas] gradually becoming adopted for over-the-road use. Westport at the forefront of this move, with or without governmental action."

Over the next five years, in fact, Westport is expected to grow its bottom line at a brisk rate of 30% annually. That's faster than industry peers like Cummins (NYSE: CMI ) (18%), Eaton (NYSE: ETN ) (11%), and Fuel Systems Solutions (Nasdaq: FSYS ) (15%).

CAPS All-Star Chemdawg expands on the Westport outperform argument:

[W]hen natural gas gets the attention it deserves watch out ... the sky is the limit for those already in the business and successful. Westport will be one of the major players as far as creating value for those using their products. Cost savings alone over oil will justify switching over to Natural gas.

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Report this Comment On December 16, 2011, at 1:00 AM, plonskisam wrote:

Just as we no longer use whale blubber for our lamps, crude oil will some day be left in our bloody greedy inhumane past. My concern is with predicting the continued price gap between crude oil and natural gas.
Also underestimating the control of big oil.
1.The more alternatives we use instead of oil the cheaper oil will be.The slowing economic growth and slower world demand for oil could bring crude down hard and fast. I see crude oil surprising us all and getting real cheap real soon.
How often does the market do what no one expects?
2.OPEC's only defence against the green movement would be to time the production
celing and sell us the dirty stuff cheap just at the
right moment to put on the brakes on green.
As we add a certain degree of threat to
their oil monopoly they give it to us cheap for
a few months or years.
If we are using less crude and more Natural gas
then this predicted gap will get very narrow.
Don't believe the dilusions that our planet is running out of oil.
Supply is abundant and the manipulation of production will continue for a very long time.
We as a human race need to fight back by supporting electric and natural gas cars regardless of the energy costs. Enough is enough.
I will invest in these determined green stocks even though I sence there will be many years of bumps in the road.
Report this Comment On December 19, 2011, at 8:23 AM, BillStacker wrote:

Can we please stop referring to natural gas in the same sentence with "green" or "renewable"? It is neither. There would be no natural gas boom if not for fraking, and fraking is as far from green as you can get. As a review, "green" means "harmless to the environment". So don't get it twisted. If you want to feel good about nat gas, call it an "alternative fuel" because that one actually applies.
You want a green stock? Look at SZYM

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