Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

Chesapeake facts

Headquarters (founded) Oklahoma City (1989)
Market Cap $13.7 billion
Industry Oil and gas exploration and production
Trailing-12-Month Revenue $11.6 billion
Management Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO Aubrey McClendon
CFO Domenic Dell'Osso
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) (5.3%)
Cash/Debt $351.0 million / $10.9 billion
Dividend Yield 1.6%
Competitors Anadarko Petroleum
BP
ConocoPhillips

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

On CAPS, 97% of the 7,685 members who have rated Chesapeake believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Earlier this year, one of those Fools, aleax, tapped the stock as a tempting turnaround opportunity:

[Natural gas] price can't keep going lower forever, plus, [Chesapeake's] controversial CEO has been executing quite well on the 25/25 plan to realize cash from assets in joint ventures and thus reduce debt -- the market will eventually notice. Timing the market is especially impossible here, but, in 5 years [Chesapeake] will be a multi-bagger from today's [$20-ish share price].

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