Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Wi-Fi router maker Netgear
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Netgear's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Netgear facts
| Headquarters (Founded) | Santa Clara, Calif. (1996) |
| Market Cap | $1.34 billion |
| Industry | Communications equipment |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $1.13 billion |
| Management | Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO Patrick Lo Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer Mark Merrill |
| Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 8% |
| Cash/Debt | $321 million / $0 |
| Competitors |
Cisco Systems Hewlett-Packard |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 2,349 members who have rated Netgear believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, eblasy, touched on the tasty tailwinds working in Netgear's favor: "If you look at all the restaurants starting to give free wi-fi, they'll be looking for a company to supply them and that company could very well be NetGear. They supply quality and easy set up wi-fi and router technology, so it's not really that hard to believe that they could be the next big thing."
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