2-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Pall?
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, filtration specialist Pall (NYS: PLL) has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Pall's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Pallfacts
Headquarters (founded) | Port Washington, N.Y. (1946) |
Market Cap | $6.9 billion |
Industry | Industrial machinery |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $2.8 billion |
Management | CEO Lawrence Kingsley (since October 2011) |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 20.6% |
Cash / Debt | $475.4 million / $640.2 million |
Dividend Yield | 1.2% |
Competitors | 3M |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 13% of the 158 members who have rated Pall believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those bears, All-Star bradford86, touched on the stock's seemingly unsustainable valuation:
Pall is shooting into all-time highs. Sell it. Target: $47-$55. I think that any upside left in Pall Corp is simply a function of the company surpassing all-time highs and running into overvaluation. Justifying a price of $60 or over is a fools game. Pall has a buyback on the table and I certainly hope that they have taken it offline for now, but I can't confirm that and for the most part companies love buying back their stock at higher prices. Trading at 18x FY 2012 guidance, I am going to recommend that you sit out on this one for a short while and try to get back in and a better price.
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