Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, data warehousing specialist Teradata
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Teradata's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Teradata facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Dayton, Ohio (1979) |
| Market Cap | $10.1 billion |
| Industry | Diversified computer systems |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $2 billion |
| Management |
CEO Michael Koehler CFO Stephen Scheppmann |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 31.3% |
| Cash/Debt | $778 million / $300 million |
| Competitors |
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Oracle |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 95.5% of the 377 members who have rated Teradata believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include jibitz and All-Star jtothes, who is ranked in the top 5% of our community.
Just last week , jibitz touched on the tailwinds working in Teradata's favor: "Growth in sector assures demand for cloud computing, and the tools associated with it."
Teradata even boasts a robust three-year average return on capital of 25.5%. That's higher than that of competitors such as HP (12.9%), IBM (23.6%), and Oracle (15.3%).
CAPS All-Star jtothes expands on the Teradata outperform argument:
The need for data warehousing is not going to go away any time soon, and if they already have a nice portfolio there is reason to believe that they will continue to add more customers to it. Also, as the computer and storage options continues to evolve they are in a position to capitalize on it.
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