4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Liquidity Services
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, online auction marketplace operatorLiquidity Services (NAS: LQDT) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Liquidity Services and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Liquidity Services facts
Headquarters (founded) | Washington, D.C. (1999) |
Market Cap | $1.5 billion |
Industry | Internet software and services |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $432.2 million |
Management | Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO William Angrick III |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 17.4% |
Cash/Debt | $84.6 million / $41.5 million |
Competitors | Buxbaum Group |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 93% of the 383 members who have rated Liquidity Services believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just yesterday, one of those bulls, All-Star bartleyrc, tapped Liquidity Services as a particularly timely growth opportunity:
Online auction business will never stop in the foreseeable future... the primary challenge will be increasing competition, but obviously this company has a strong foothold in its market. Furthermore, this price is a good buy for the long term because it is right after its normal 6 month profit-taking sell-off pattern.
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