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After being stuck the past year at no better than a three-star rank, Emulex (NYSE: ELX) recently was upgraded to four starsafter enough top-performing CAPS members turned bullish on it. A total of 113 members have given their opinion on the company, with many of them offering analysis and commentary explaining the recent optimism.

Emulex provides networking solutions for data centers, with its products used and sold by enterprise original equipment manufacturers such as Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) and EMC (NYSE: EMC). The stock has picked up momentum in CAPS recently, coming off of a two-star ranking after Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) finally threw in the towelafter trying to buy the company. Many CAPS members feel that Emulex will do well on its ownand think its debt-free balance sheet and a healthy cash balance make it very competitive.

Since the unsolicited Broadcom bid, Emulex has scored design wins with customers such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) and, just recently Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), that could generate significant revenue growth. Despite a drop in its fiscal fourth-quarter revenue, Emulex managed to sharply narrow its loss compared with last year, while cutting expenses and increasing adjusted gross margins.                                          

But Broadcom, a communications and media chip maker, isn't done with Emulex yet, because it filed a patent infringement suit against Emulex a couple of weeks ago. With Broadcom coming off a recent battlewith Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM), lots of lawyers have free time now, and some investors and analysts see a long fight.

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