Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, independent oil refiner HollyFrontier (NYSE: HFC) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

HollyFrontier facts

Headquarters (Founded) Dallas (1947)
Market Cap $6.3 billion
Industry Oil and gas refining and marketing
Trailing-12-Month Revenue $12.7 billion
Management CEO Michael Jennings
CFO Douglas Aron
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) 14.4%
Cash/Debt $1.7 billion / $1.2 billion
Dividend Yield 1.3%
Competitors ExxonMobil
Valero Energy
Western Refining

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

On CAPS, 95% of the 702 members who have rated HollyFrontier believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Just last week, one of those bulls, fellow Fool Rich Duprey (TMFCop), tapped HollyFrontier as a particularly timely pick:

Obama kills the Keystone XL pipeline for political gain thereby ensuring bottlenecks remain in Cushing. That will widen the Brent-WTI spread, which plays to [HollyFrontier's] strengths as it possesses below-market WTI sweet crude that it purchased from Frontier and [Sunoco].

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