With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Titanium Metals' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Titanium Metals facts
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Headquarters (founded)
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Dallas (1950)
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Market Cap
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$1.52 billion
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Industry
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Industrial Metals and Minerals
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue
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$1.15 billion
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Management
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CEO Steven Watson (since 2006)
CFO James Brown (since 2007)
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Return on Equity (average, last three years)
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26.8%
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Competitors
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Allegheny Tech (NYSE: ATI)
RTI International Metals
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CAPS members bullish on TIE also bullish on
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General Electric (NYSE: GE)
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)
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CAPS members bearish on TIE also bearish on
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Citigroup (NYSE: C)
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC)
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Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's), and Motley Fool CAPS.
Over on CAPS, 2,162 of the 2,234 members who have rated Titanium
Metals -- or 97% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500
going forward. These bulls include All-Star mtracy9, who is ranked in the top 20% of our community, and SmoothHughes.
In late March,
mtracy9 wrote that Titanium Metals "has reserves needed to weather the
current economic storm." Our CAPS member concludes: "As the economy
begins to recover and as the [Boeing (NYSE: BA)]
company begins to fill orders in 2010 for its Dreamliner commercial
airplane, this company and its stock price should recover nicely."
In a pitch from last month, SmoothHughes elaborates:
This company has no debt and continues to show
positive cash flow even with a steep decline in the price of titanium.
These two factors should see [Titanium Metals] through the recession to
benefit from increasing industrial orders over the next few years. The
worldwide demand for this metal should continue to increase because of
its high strength-to-weight ratio (excellent for more making vehicles
such as airplanes more fuel efficient) and exceptional resistance to
corrosion (desalinization plants, chemical refining, etc). Plus
titanium is my favorite element.
Copyright © 2009 Universal Press Syndicate.
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