Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, embattled electronics retailer RadioShack
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at RadioShack's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
RadioShack facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Fort Worth, Texas (1899) |
| Market Cap | $288.4 million |
| Industry | Computer and electronics retail |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $4.4 billion |
| Management | CEO James Gooch (since 2011) CFO Dorvin Lively (since 2011) |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 10.9% |
| Cash/Debt | $517.7 million / $679.3 million |
| Competitors |
Amazon.com Best Buy Wal-Mart |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 47% of the 883 members who have rated RadioShack believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
A couple of months ago, one of those Fools, chinamantsan, succinctly summed up the bear case for our community:
Retail stores are slowly getting killed by the Internet. Yes there will always be a need for [brick and mortar] stores but if you walk into a RadioShack you will really wonder how they have stayed in business for so long. ...
I have been to very many RadioShacks and I will have to say that 99% of the employees that work there don't know a thing about the products they are selling and I will generally have to track down the item myself because nobody knows where to find it. ...
I personally wouldn't buy one share of RadioShack stock and I can definitely see them going out of business within the next few years the same way Circuit City went out.
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