Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, hosting and cloud-computing specialist Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

Rackspace facts

Headquarters (Founded)

San Antonio (1998)

Market Cap

$2.85 billion

Industry

Internet software and services

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$698 million

Management

CEO A. Lanham Napier (since 2006)

CFO Bruce Knooihuizen (since 2008)

Return on Equity (Average, Past 2 Years)

11.4%

Compound Annual Revenue and Net Income Growth (Over Past 2 Years)

24.1% and 42.8%

Cash/Debt

$148.5 million / $169.85 million

Competitors

IBM (NYSE: IBM)

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN)

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

On CAPS, 93% of the 397 members who have rated Rackspace believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include All-Star TMFZahrim (Fool contributor Anders Bylund), who is ranked in the top 10% of our community, and raidoh.

Just last week, TMFZahrim tapped Rackspace as a way to put your money on a winning executive team: "Quality management is of paramount importance to Foolish investing, and Rackspace is certainly doing its part to stay on top of the game."

Rackspace might not be a household name, but it's steadily earning the respect of our community as a leading cloud-computing opportunity. Of course, with the shares trading at a lofty price-to-earnings ratio of 80 -- a massive premium to tech giants like IBM (12.5), Microsoft (12.1), and even the high-priced Amazon (63) -- Rackspace may be getting too much respect from Wall Street at the moment. But as my Foolish colleague Anders recently pointed out, Rackspace's hands-on, dual-segment strategy truly differentiates it from those behemoths, as well as up-and-comers like SAVVIS (Nasdaq: SVVS). If all of Rackspace's customers are as impressed as CAPS member raidoh is, the shares might actually prove to be inexpensive at the moment:

[Rackspace] is a well-regarded player in the web-hosting and remote server industry. I researched the industry for a couple of weeks to host our website and found top recommendations across the net as well as from a web design firm. I found their customer service to be extraordinary -- intelligent, prompt, and accurate. Plus, they're available 24/7 and over many channels (email, IM, phone). I am a huge fan of great customer service.

They have strong inside ownership, a low debt/equity ratio, good earnings growth, and low customer turn-over. This is a growth story, so the P/E will be high.

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