Based on the aggregated intelligence of 110,000 investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, electrical engineering giant ABB (NYSE:ABB) has earned a coveted five-star ranking. Our data has shown that five-star stocks outperform the market by a significant margin; conversely, one-star stocks have woefully lagged the market average.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at ABB's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

ABB facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Zurich, Switzerland (1883)

Market Cap

$64.18 billion

Industry

Heavy electrical equipment

TTM Revenue

$30.95 billion

Management

CFO & Interim CEO Michel Demare;

Head of Power Products Division Bernhard Jucker

Return on Equity (avg. last three years)

33%

CAPS members bullish on ABB also bullish on

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Transocean (NYSE:RIG)
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CAPS members bearish on ABB also bearish on

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
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Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 411 of 421 of the All-Star members who have rated ABB -- some 98% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These All-Star bulls include rd80 and TheGarcipian, both of whom are ranked in the top 1% of our community.

In October 2007, rd80 informed our community that "ABB is well positioned to take advantage of global industrial and infrastructure expansion. For those not familiar with ABB, if they generate electricity, use electricity, control machinery, or transmit power, they're a prospective ABB customer."

A more recent pitch from TheGarcipian last month shared that bullish feeling, highlighting the possible value opportunity being offered on the shares:

PEG is moderately low at 0.84 (which is slightly less than its industry average of 0.94), and it has decent returns for its industry.

Plus, power distribution systems and technologies to make these systems more efficient and extensive will continue to be in high demand, particularly if oil stays above $100/barrel. High-priced oil will push more use of energy via coal, wind, solar, and water dams, all of which are heavily reliant upon electrical distribution systems because they are less portable than oil. While I don't think you'll get another 5X-6X gain in 5 more years, this should continue to be an excellent long-term investment.

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