Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, inter-dealer broker GFI Group (NASDAQ:GFIG) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

GFI facts

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

On CAPS, 93.2% of the 264 members who have rated GFI believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include sidste and All-Star mrindependent, who is ranked in the top 2% of our community.

Earlier this year, sidste kindly informed Fools that GFI "supports clearing derivative contracts and has several electronic platforms for [foreign exchange], energy, and other commodities." Our CAPS member concludes: "They help clients with complex hedging, a practice which is not dead due to proper counterparty clearing."

In a more recent pitch from last week, mrindependent singled out the stock as safe derivatives bet:

GFI Group is an inter-dealer broker dealing in over-the-counter derivatives products and securities. The company shows solid historical growth and profitability and it is selling for approximately 1 times book value. The balance sheet looks clean (but who knows about off balance sheet items). I have questions about the company's future in light of new regulations that will eventually be issued, but I believe the current price provides more upside than downside.

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