Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, customer relations management (CRM) software specialist salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.

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

salesforce.com facts

Headquarters (Founded) San Francisco (1999)
Market Cap $18.13 billion
Industry Application software
Trailing-12-Month Revenue $1.55 billion
Management

Co-Founder/CEO Marc Benioff

CFO Graham Smith
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) 8.1%
Cash/Debt $769.85 million / $494.8 million
1-Year Return 121%
Competitors

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL)

SAP (NYSE: SAP)

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

On CAPS, 46% of the 1,541 members who have rated salesforce.com believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include All-Star btown819, who is ranked in the top 5% of our community, and manolosalceda.

Late last year, btown819 wrote that salesforce.com's "valuation is a bit ahead of itself and assumes one of the more rosy potential scenarios over the next 5 years or so." Our CAPS All-Star concludes: "This implies market returns at best, and below-market returns in a less than best-case scenario. I'll take these odds."

In fact, salesforce.com currently trades at a lofty forward P/E of 96.2, representing a substantial premium to gorilla rivals IBM (NYSE: IBM) (11.5), Microsoft (10.1), Oracle (14.2), and SAP (14.6).

CAPS member manolosalceda elaborates on the bull case:

Good product, good company but ridiculous valuation. I think the web has great potential for a lot of products and services but people [are] starting to lose focus again. I mean, it's not dotcom bubble revisited but a lot of people [are] starting to give too high valuations to companies related to the cloud. This one [has] been the most extreme.

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