Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, department store operator Sears Holdings
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Sears' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Sears facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Hoffman Estates, Ill. (1899) |
| Market Cap | $5.6 billion |
| Industry | Department stores |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $41.3 billion |
| Management | Chairman Edward Lampert President/CEO Louis D'Ambrosio |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | (13.3%) |
| Cash/Debt | $777.0 million / $3.2 billion |
| Competitors |
J.C. Penney Target Wal-Mart Stores |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 37% of the 2,331 members who have rated Sears believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this week, one of those Fools, callumturcan, succinctly summed up the Sears bear case for our community:
This is a slowly dying company. Profits have disappeared and sales are slowing. It trades at [1.19 times] book value, but it is constantly losing money. It will fall to below book value soon. It doesn't offer anything that another store couldn't sell you at a cheaper (Wal-Mart) price. No reason to go to Sears or Kmart, or own its stock.
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