Based on the aggregated intelligence of 145,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, weight loss specialist NutriSystem (NASDAQ:NTRI) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

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

NutriSystem facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Horsham, Penn. (1972)

Market Cap

$964.7 million

Industry

Internet retail

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$536.1 million

Management

CEO Joseph Redling (since 2008)
CFO David Clark (since 2007)

Revenue and Net Income Growth (Over Past Year)

(24.5%) and (62.1%)

1-Year Return

124%

Competitors

Weight Watchers
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK)

CAPS Members Bearish on NTRI Also Bearish on

UAL (NASDAQ:UAUA)

CAPS Members Bullish on NTRI Also Bullish on

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 11% of the 935 members who have rated NutriSystem believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include dantheinvestor and the top-ranked member in all of CAPS, UltraLong.

Just last month, dantheinvestor questioned NutriSystem's growing presence at the big brick-and-mortars: "Retail will add more [operating expense], less recurring revenue, and lower margins. [Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT)] may be OK, but they aren't hooking new customers into recurring shipments and auto billing, which will stifle {NutriSystem’s] growth and earnings."

In a pitch from two days earlier, UltraLong also thought the stock was ready to drop a few pounds:

Everyone is jumping on the diabetic diet bandwagon and hooking up with Wal-Mart and [Walgreen (NYSE:WAG)]. Me? I'm jumping on the can't maintain a customer longer than 10 weeks bandwagon which shows a futuristic mass exodus from NutriSystem.

Look, I don't exactly deny the fact that [NutriSystem] has a fantastic balance sheet with no debt ... but they are already trading at a futuristic P/E of 20 times 2010 given double digit negative revenue growth in 2009 and high single digit revenue growth in 2010. PEG ratios above 2 in this case considering their weak customer retention history is a dooming factor.

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