Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, hard drive specialist Seagate Technology (Nasdaq: STX) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

Seagate facts

Headquarters (Founded) Dublin, Ireland (1979)
Market Cap $5.89 billion
Industry Data storage devices
Trailing-12-Month Revenue $11.1 billion
Management

Chairman/CEO Stephen Luczo

CFO Patrick O'Malley
Return on Capital (Average, Past 3 Years) 12%
Cash/Debt $2.81 billion / $2.91 billion
Competitors

Western Digital (NYSE: WDC)

STEC (Nasdaq: STEC)

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)

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

On CAPS, 93% of the 1,180 members who have rated Seagate believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include All-Star TMFDeej, who is ranked in the top 1% of our community, and Sambar2pi.

In early January, TMFDeej tapped Seagate's valuation, which is even lower today, as too attractive to pass up: "Is this the best business in the world? No. But it sure is cheap. Certainly cheap enough to justify buying it at this level."

In fact, Seagate currently sports a cheapish forward P/E of 6.9. That represents a discount to its main hard drive foe Western Digital (9.1), as well as solid-state drive threats Intel (9.2) and STEC (10.8).

CAPS member Sambar2pi expands on the outperform argument:

Fears of technological obsolescence are completely irrational; the transition to solid-state will remain slow enough for Seagate to properly transition itself in that direction, as they have already begun to. Not to mention they have world-class expertise in the technologies that accompany both hdd and solid-state (error-correction, controls, etc.) that a potential solid-state upstart would lack. Add that to good management since [Luczo] returned as CEO, and I say the stock will be way up if it ever gets valued properly.

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