Based on the aggregated intelligence of 115,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, engineering and construction company McDermott International (NYSE:MDR) 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 McDermott's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

McDermott facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Houston (1923)

Market Cap

$3.80 billion

Industry

Heavy Construction

TTM Revenue

$6.09 billion

Management

CEO John Fees (since September 2008)

CFO Michael Taff (since April 2007)

TTM Return on Capital

35.4%

Competitors

Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ:FWLT)

Fluor (NYSE:FLR)

CAPS members bullish on MDR also bullish on

Transocean (NYSE:RIG)

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX)

CAPS members bearish on MDR also bearish on

General Motors (NYSE:GM)

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM)

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, some 94% of the 157 All-Star members who have rated McDermott believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These Foolish bulls include crazyrugger and livoniarules, both of whom are ranked in the top 20% of our community.

Late last month, crazyrugger wrote that McDermott "is a best of breed company, that will use its best of breed client base to build market share. I don't see this stock going too far, but after being beaten down as much as it has, we will see this back up in 12 months ..."

A more recent pitch from livoniarules last week agrees, listing 10 good reasons to remain bullish on McDermott. Here are several:

1) trading 75% off its high ...

3) is the 3rd largest (by mkt cap) company in the oil field services industry behind [Schlumberger] and [Halliburton]

4) sales growth estimates 17% and earnings growth estimates 21% are positive but slowing ...

5) has generated 390 million in operating cashflow and 600 million in net income in the trailing 4 quarters

6) 4.30 a share in cash with virtually no debt …

10) they are global, they have the ability to work on offshore hurricane damaged rigs, and exposure to nuclear power plant development

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