2-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Six Flags?

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, theme park operator Six Flags Entertainment (NYS: SIX) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Six Flags' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Six Flags facts

Headquarters (founded)

Grand Prairie, Texas (1971)

Market Cap

$2.6 billion

Industry

Leisure facilities

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$1 billion

Management

Chairman/CEO James Reid-Anderson
CFO John Duffey

Return on Capital (average, past 3 years)

3.3%

Cash/Debt

$231.4 million / $957.2 million

Dividend Yield

5.2%

Competitors

Cedar Fair
Universal Parks & Resorts
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts


Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 26% of the 38 members who have rated Six Flags believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Earlier this week, one of those bears, troym72, touched on the stock's seemingly unsustainable valuation:

Six Flags would have to increase their yearly EPS three-fold to justify the current trading price of $45 per share. Yes, I know that they just increased their dividend to [$0.60] per quarter giving a yield of 5%. ...

However, even with this dividend (which I question whether they can even afford to pay) ... the stock is still far overvalued in my opinion. Unless there is some major -- I mean major -- increase in profits on short order the price has to fall from here.

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