Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Indonesian telecommunications giant Telkom Indonesia
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Telkom's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Telkom facts
| Headquarters (Founded) | Bandung, Indonesia (1884) |
| Market Cap | $17.5 billion |
| Industry | Foreign telecom services |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $7.89 billion |
| Management |
President/CEO Rinaldi Firmansyah CFO Sudiro Asno |
| Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 32.7% |
| Cash/Debt | $1.09 billion / $2.52 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 3.7% |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 98.5% of the 608 members who have rated Telkom believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include iamthecountry and wpshil78.
Earlier this year, iamthecountry nicely summed up the bull case for our community: "Mobile phone and data Leader in Indonesia, a high growth sector in a high growth economy."
Telkom even boasts a robust three-year average operating margin of 34.7%. That's higher than that of U.S. counterparts AT&T
CAPS member wpshil78 expands on the Telkom outperform argument:
[S]eems like a good entry point with the most recent interest-rate hike in Indonesia behind us. Check-out Jim Jubak's (MSN) recent article on emerging markets. This might be a good time to buy as major markets seem to be at a plateau, while Asia and South America have underperformed the last 12 months. Plus, they're in a growing sector within a growing economy.
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