5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Exelis
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, defense company Exelis (NYS: XLS) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Exelis' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Exelis facts
Headquarters | McLean, Va. |
Market Cap | $1.5 billion |
Industry | Aerospace and defense |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $6.0 billion |
Management | CEO David Melcher |
Trailing-12-Month Operating Margin | 10.4% |
Cash/Debt | $64.0 million / $649.0 million |
Dividend Yield | 4.8% |
Competitors | Boeing (NYS: BA) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 94% of the 16 members who have rated Exelis believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include harleytodd and shamapant.
Earlier this week, harleytodd tapped the recent ITT (NYS: ITT) spinoff as a timely bargain opportunity: "$6B rev with $2B mkt cap = cheap. P/E is 4 vs industry P/E of 20. 4.5% yield. The market regularly undervalues spinoffs for a period of time so buy it now!"
In fact, Exelis' P/E of 4 represents a clear discount to competitors like Boeing (14), General Dynamics (9), and Lockheed (9).
CAPS member shamapant elaborates on bull case:
Classic Undervalued Spinoff situation. Exelis trades at just over 4x earnings, and is hit hard for both being a spin-off and being in an industry with a bad rep, defense cuts. ITT shareholders invested for ITT, not for a spinoff company, let alone a defense company...these shares are undervalued-expect a bounce.
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