Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, speech-software specialist Nuance Communications (NUAN) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Nuance and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Nuance facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
Burlington, Mass. (1992) |
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Market Cap |
$6.3 billion |
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Industry |
Application software |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$6.3 billion |
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Management |
Chairman/CEO Paul Ricci CFO Thomas Beaudoin |
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
2.7% |
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Cash/Debt |
$961.1 million/$2.3 billion |
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Competitors |
IBM (IBM -1.05%) MedQuist Holdings Microsoft (MSFT 1.82%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 6,002 members who have rated Nuance believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, NoOracleHere, tapped Nuance as a particularly sound turnaround opportunity:
The recent haircut makes this call easier. In the near future, computing is going [mobile]. But the weakness of [mobile] is the weakness in the keyboard/mouse solution. Touch screens go only so far, but what better method than to just talk to our devices? This is accentuated by trends in the on-line interactive area where natural language recognition is becoming more important. Further development in the image processing area is being driven by robotics, where scene evaluation is in its infancy. [Nuance] has a lot of work ahead.
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