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Small-cap stock #1: Almost Family (AFAM)
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Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009  Almost Family (NASDAQ: AFAM) is in the home health nursing service business and offers senior citizens in nine states an alternative to spending their days in nursing homes. As the aging Baby Boomer generation looks to keep a level of independence without sacrificing their level of care, Almost Family is a perfect fit.
<>Almost Family has been buying up local providers to grow its share of the highly fragmented market and increase its margins. Clearly, this strategy is working, as the company's earnings rose 55% to 68 cents per share, compared w...
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5 small-cap stocks to buy now
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Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009  Small-cap stocks are a GREAT place to start if you're serious about rebuilding your wealth and securing your financial future.
But what makes small-cap stocks so spectacular? The bear market stripped analysts from small stocks -- hardly anyone is covering them anymore. This creates wonderful pricing anomalies and gives the individual investor a significant edge. <>In addition, earnings are a big no-show among the big blue chips this season. It's not just the Big 3 automakers -- it's Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), too. Yesterday'...
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A New Global Healthcare Composite Index
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The accompanying table [click to enlarge] presents the top five rated companies with market caps of at least $100M from each of the eight new ETF Innovators healthcare indexes, including a database exceeding 500 companies worldwide. The Healthcare Composite Index is a dynamic, semi-active index with quarterly rebalancing which consists of the 40 top-rated companies on an equal weight basis from each of the eight global healthcare indexes listed below and represents an alternative strategy to existing health composite ETF...
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New Hospital and Outpatient Care Index
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The accompanying table includes statistics and the top five rated companies in the ETF Innovators Global Hospital & Outpatient Care Index. Both the Top 35 Rated and all 54 companies in the index outpaced the overall market as measured by S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY) and benchmark ETFs, including iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers (IHF) and PowerShares Healthcare Services (PTJ).
The index includes companies with market caps of at least $150M which derive the majority of their revenue from any of the following activities: i...
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'Healthy' profits from home health
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 "For my latest featured recommendation, I am looking to the relative stability of the U.S. healthcare industry," says small cap growth stock expert Tom Bishop.
In his BI Research, the advisor explains, "One trend that never changes is that we are all getting older everyday; another trend is the soaring cost of staying in a hospital." To play these trends, he recommends Almost Family (NASDAQ: AFAM). "We would all prefer to stay out of the hospital or nursing home and heal or age at home for as long as possible and be as healthy as possible. <>"Indeed this is the underlying tenant of our new recom...
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Almost Family Inc (AFAM)
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With a very nice 5 day run on high volume, Almost Family Inc
(AFAM) still looks like a buy. With revenue growth close to 50% and earnings
growth at 95% year over year for the current quarter, the stock trading at a 26
price/earnings is a good purchase.
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Almost Family Inc
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History...
Almost Family is a nationally recognized home healthcare industry leader with a 30-year history of providing outstanding healthcare and personal care services as well as solid financial returns.
1976 Caretenders founded in Louisville, KY as personal care service company 1982 Home health division established; Medicare certification <> <> <> 1983 Operations expanded to Kentucky <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< />< />< />< /><><><><><><>< /><><><><><><><><><><>< /><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>...
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Almost Family Inc.
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Almost Family, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide home health care services in Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, the United States. It operates in two segments, Visiting Nurse (VN) and Personal Care (PC). The VN segment, which operates primarily under the trade names ‘Caretenders’ and ‘Mederi-Caretenders’, provides a range of Medicare-certified home health nursing services to patients in need of recuperative care, typically following a period of hospitalization or care in another type of inpatient facility. It also offers specialty< /><><><><><><>< /><><><><><><><><><><>< /><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< />< />...
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Almost Family: Aging Demographics Will Drive Long Term Growth
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We like Almost Family, Inc. (AFAM) based on their earnings and sales growth, low valuation, demographics, and strong analyst support.  AFAM earnings growth over the past 12 months has been 57% and that is better than 73% of their industry competitors. Revenue and Earnings have both been growing consistently quarter over quarter for the past two years.
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home health and nursing services- SE US., inc. Fla where the market for home health is obvious. Aquiring company with a great growth rate, paying down debt incurred for take overs probably start back up Q1 08, questions about reimbursement rates have a cloud over the stock now, combined with a low float have pushed the stock to very attractive levels here in mid Sept.
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