Based on the aggregated intelligence of 130,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, full-service restaurant operator DineEquity (NYSE:DIN) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.

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

DineEquity facts

Headquarters (founded)

Glendale, Calif. (1976)

Market Cap

$599 million

Industry

Restaurants

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$1.61 billion

Management

CEO Julia Stewart (since May 2002)

CFO John Tierney (since February 2009)

Brands

Applebee's, IHOP

TTM Return on Equity

(49.3%)

2-Month Return

373.0%

Competitors

Brinker International (NYSE:EAT)

Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI)

CAPS members bearish on DIN also bearish on

General Motors (NYSE:GM)
Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) 

CAPS members bullish on DIN also bullish on

General Electric (NYSE:GE)
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) 

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS.

Over on CAPS, some 62.5% of the 243 members who have rated DineEquity believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include smartdanny and All-Star JakilaTheHun, who is ranked in the top 0.1% of our community.

Last week, smartdanny couldn't seem to stomach DineEquity's recent price run:

The only thing that could have possibly sent this stock climbing like it has is a combination of a short squeeze (which with a float of less than 18 million shares isn't that difficult), people buying beaten down stocks for a trade, and then momentum investors getting involved once they saw the price exploding. There is no fundamental reason for the price rise and it's not like casual dining has a tailwind in its favor right now.

In a pitch from the same day, JakilaTheHun explains why the bill just doesn't add up:

[DineEquity] is looking overpriced at $30. … Even in the good years of '06 and '05, they only earned about $2.50 per share. Even assuming they could improve on that performance and earn roughly $3 per share on average (with a 3% growth rate), I still only come up with a DCF valuation of $26 per share --- and that's a big *if* right there.

Personally, I like the food at IHOP and Applebee's, but I notice a lot of friends who are negative on Applebee's lately --- food is too generic and that sorta stuff. Not sure if that means anything or not, but it does suggest that it's nothing special.

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