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5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: TriQuint Semiconductor
Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:10 by Brian D. Pacampara
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, mobile phone chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TQNT) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at TriQuint's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
TriQuint facts
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Headquarters (Founded) |
Hillsboro, Ore. (1981) |
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Market Cap |
$826.8 million |
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Industry |
Semiconductors |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$610 million |
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Management |
CEO Ralph Quinsey CFO Steven Buhaly |
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Compound Annual Revenue Growth (Over Past 3 Years) |
21.9% |
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Cash/Debt |
$134.6 million / $0 |
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Large-Cap Semiconductor Alternatives |
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) AMD (NYSE: AMD) Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) |
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CAPS Members Bullish on TQNT Also Bullish on |
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) |
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CAPS Members Bearish on TQNT Also Bearish on |
Ford Motor (NYSE: F) |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 249 members who have rated TriQuint believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include joats5 and All-Star TSIF, who is ranked in the top 2% of our community.
Just last Friday, joats5 tapped TriQuint's recent profit miss as a can't-miss opportunity:
Parts provider for the coming "Cellular Tsunami". Down almost 30% on recent bad earning report but indications are that they still are positioned to benefit from global economic surge in 2010.
In a pitch from one day earlier, TSIF adds some color to the stock's latest haircut:
TriQuint announced a 7% revenue slide, which on the surface doesn't seem to warrant a 28% stock hit. They also announced that orders from one of their two [Korean] customers were cut drastically as the customer burned off inventory. ... For a company whose share price has been near a 5 year high and that continues good growth and has minimal debt, I'm bullish on TriQuint at this entry point. It may take it a few quarters to convince Mr. Market … but with chip sells to many of the major handset makers it appears to have some decent momentum.
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