Why Netflix Is Poised to Underperform
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, movie rental service Netflix has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Netflix and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Netflix facts
Headquarters (founded) | Los Gatos, Calif. (1997) |
Market Cap | $10.2 billion |
Industry | Internet retail |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $3.6 billion |
Management | Founder/Chairman/CEO Reed Hastings CFO David Wells |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 38.9% |
Cash/Debt | $748.1 million / $400.0 million |
Competitors | Apple Comcast Amazon.com |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 20% of the 9,677 members who have rated Netflix believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, All-Star DJoshuaRubin, highlighted Netflix's valuation as particularly unsustainable:
Just wouldn't pay [$10 billion] for it if I had [$10 billion]. No chance, no way, no how. Not now, not never. Visionary no doubt, could end up being worth that. Service is a mediocre experience -- utterly competent but now uninspired. Maybe this is unfair and Reed adds back some authentic passion for the movie business after completing global infrastructure, but anyone who has ever watched a moving film, and is seated deep in thought only to have the credits rudely interrupted by three crappy film recommendations knows this is a CEO who is way more Bill Gates than Steve Jobs.
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