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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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-4.21%
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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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Home health care
AFAM
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-8.10%
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(closed on 09/17/08)
AFAM provides home heatlh to the sick and elderly. America is growing older and sicker by the day. This whole sector is growing very quickly.
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Almost Family Inc
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+43.17%
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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.
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Almost Family Inc.
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(closed on 06/27/08)
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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From the Blogosphere
Trading Radar for 11/04: Cisco (CSCO), Comcast (CMCSA), Tyco (TEL), Molson Coors (TAP) Report
The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow's trading session:<u>Before Market Opens:</u>Economics:7:30am ET- Challenger Job Cuts - no Street consensus
8:15am ET- ADP Employment Report - Street Sees (190K)
Earnings:3D Systems (NASDAQ: TDSC) – consensus loss $0.04Agilysys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGYS) – consensus loss $0.19Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) – consensus EPS $0.16Almost Family (NASDAQ: AFAM) – consensus EPS $0.70Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) – consensus loss $0.02Ambac Financial Group (NYSE: ABK) – consensus loss $4.43American States Water (NYSE: AWR) – consensus EPS $0....
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Almost Family: Well Positioned for Demographic Growth
<font>Almost Family (NDQ:AFAM) – Sep. 14, 2009 $28.38</font> <font>52-week range: $14.91 (Mar. 9, 2009) - $53.85 (Nov. 10, 2008)</font>
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At home with Almost Family (AFAM)
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 "Almost Family (NASDAQ: AFAM), a provider of home health services, keeps 'whacking the cover off the ball'." says growth stock specialist Tom Bishop. Here's the latest from BI Research.
"The company provides skilled nursing services (80% of revenues) as well as personal care services (20%) to patients convalescing in the comfort of their own homes, a much lower cost setting also favored by Medicare. "While the market obsesses about future Medicare reimbursement rates, I believe the company will be able to adapt to whatever Medicare throws at it without any major setbacks. <>"Meanwhile, the com...
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'Elite' look at Almost Family (AFAM)
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 "Almost Family (NASDAQ: AFAM) is making its triumphant return to our 'focus list'of buys after we sold it in January," says analyst Tracey Ryniec. Here's her latest in Zacks Elite Stocks.
"AFAM provides home health nursing, rehabilitation and personal care services in 11 states. The company has two segments: Visiting Nurse (VN) and Personal Care (PC). "Visiting Nurse provides skilled nursing and physical, occupational and speech therapy. Personal Care includes custodial and personal care services. <>"The company's acquisition strategy continues with the May 27 announcement that it was acquirin...
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Small-cap stock #1: Almost Family (AFAM)
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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