5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Teva Pharmaceutical
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, generic-drug giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NAS: TEVA) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Teva's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Teva facts
Headquarters (founded) | Petach Tikva, Israel (1901) |
Market Cap | $40.0 billion |
Industry | Pharmaceuticals |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $18.3 billion |
Management | CEO Shlomo Yanai (since 2007) |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 13.3% |
Cash/Debt | $1.1 billion / $14.5 billion |
Dividend Yield | 1.8% |
Competitors | Ranbaxy Laboratories |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 2,544 members who have rated Teva believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Late last year, one of those Fools, callumturcan, succinctly summed up the bull case for our community:
Teva's stock buyback coupled with higher expected earnings in 2012 plus a low P/E will send the stock higher. Because it deals in generics it isn't affected negatively by the 2012-2013 patent cliff but is actually benefited by it. ... [I]t's a defensive stock with growth prospects and a high dividend. Plus it is emerging into some new and interesting markets, and is aggressively pursuing 3rd world markets.
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