Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, mobile software specialist Smith Micro Software (Nasdaq: SMSI) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

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

Smith Micro facts

Headquarters (Founded) Aliso Viejo, Calif. (1982)
Market Cap $339.2 million
Industry Application software
Trailing-12-Month Revenue $118.7 million
Management

Co-Founder/CEO William Smith, Jr.

CFO Andrew Schmidt
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) 1.6%
Cash/Debt $54.85 million / $0
Competitors

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)

Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO)

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

On CAPS, 97% of the 828 members who have rated Smith Micro believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include TheBlindCat and CraigMiles.

In August, TheBlindCat tapped Smith Micro as a way to get exposure to a pair of tasty tech tailwinds: "A good play on Mobile and Cloud Computing. Explosive growth in both areas and Smith Micro has been in the thick of it from the beginning."

Smith Micro's smallish size, rock-solid balance sheet, and exposure to exciting sources of growth continue to support its five-star CAPS status. In fact, Smith Micro's compound revenue growth over the past five years (55.5%) easily tops that of behemoth rivals Microsoft (9.4%) and Cisco (10.1%), as well as other high-profile cloud-computing plays like IBM (NYSE: IBM) (0.2%) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) (42.4%). More importantly, with a PEG of just 0.7 -- representing a discount to each of those same stocks -- Smith Micro's future growth seems reasonably priced.

Last month, CAPS member CraigMiles seemed baffled over Smith Micro's cheapish valuation:

I can find no reason for it. [Smith Micro] has ...

1) Cash Flow and growth to be valued at $10 per share with an 11% discount rate.
(I can't imagine a software company having a high weighted average cost of capital)
2) No debt
3) [19%] insider ownership
4) Revenue is still growing per year
5) [Free cash flow] is growing per year

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