Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, network gear maker Riverbed Technology (RVBD.DL) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Riverbed, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Riverbed facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
San Francisco (2002) |
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Market Cap |
$2.5 billion |
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Industry |
Communications equipment |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$836.9 million |
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Management |
Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO Jerry Kennelly CFO Randy Gottfried |
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
8.2% |
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Cash/Debt |
$451.1 million / $572.1 million |
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Competitors |
Cisco Systems (CSCO 0.06%) F5 Networks (FFIV 1.18%) Juniper Networks (JNPR -1.45%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 1,045 members who have rated Riverbed believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this week, one of those Fools, NoblyNaive, tapped the stock as a particularly timely bargain opportunity:
[Riverbed] stands to gain in one of two ways: benefiting from WAN demand in 2014; or by direct acquisition from its goliath competitor, [Cisco Systems], which has much more free cash on hand than [Riverbed] is worth. Draconian punishment of RVBD stock price (February 2013) over their own recent acquisition of [Opnet Technologies] to gain WAN advantage (which was necessary to compete with CISCO, but went less than optimally) makes RVBD a good discount buy.
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