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CVS: Bull or Bear?
Reiterating: CVS - Defensive play, extraordinaire
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Filed under: CVS Corp (CVS), Stocks to Buy Do hang onto to those CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) shares, to say the least: I'm Reiterating my Buy rating for the company, first recommended on February 16, 2009 at a price of $27.30.
CVS, a classic defensive, is performing well, despite choppy macroeconomic conditions. Nothing has occurred within the last half-year to suggest that CVS will not be able to successfully incorporate recent acquisitions, and increase sales in key, new growth markets in the U.S.
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Bullish on CVS ...
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CVS Caremark Corporation, a pharmacy services company, provides prescriptions and related healthcare services in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Pharmacy Services and Retail Pharmacy. The Pharmacy Service segment provides a range of prescription benefit management services, including mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy services, plan design and administration, formulary management, and claims processing. This segment serves primarily employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, managed care organizations and other sponsors of...
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Five Top Rated Healthcare Cost Containment Stocks
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The table at my website link below includes statistics and the top five rated companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Healthcare Cost Containment Index. The index includes generic drug companies such as Teva Pharma (TEVA) and Perrigo (PRGO) as well as pharmacy benefit managers such as Express Scripts (ESRX), which share the common theme of promoting the use of generics to lower healthcare costs. http://www.etfinnovators.com/2008/12/five-top-rated-healthcar... <> <> The Top 40 Rated companies outpaced the overall market and benchmark healthcare ETFs over the past year w...
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An Uncertain Outlook for Health Benefits Index
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The 28 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Health Benefit Providers Index [click to enlarge] with market caps over $250M have lost over 40% of market value in the past year on an equally weighted basis.
The index contains retail pharmacies such as Walgreen (WAG), pharmacy benefit managers such as MedcoHealth Solutions (MHS), managed care companies such as UnitedHealth (UNH), supplemental health insurers such as Aflac (AFL), hospital pharmacy operators such as PharMerica (PMC), and workers compen...
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Expanding Defensive Growth Index into Europe
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<> The accompanying table presents an updated version of the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex, which is expanded to 40 companies with market caps of at least $10B from the industry groups listed below. This defensive growth index is heavily weighted in consumer staples and healthcare and is now structured to include companies based in Europe, in addition to the United States and Canada.
Compared to the previous version, this index has a lower beta and higher average market cap and adds European companie...
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A Defensive Growth Stock Index
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<> The accompanying table presents the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex, which is structured as a market cap weighted, defensive growth index of 30 companies based in either the United States or Canada with the largest market capitalizations from each industry group (A-J) as specified below:
(A) Grocery Stores (1)
(B) Consumer Staples (10) – Non-Food (2), Food (4), Tobacco (1), Alcoholic Beverages (1), and Non-Alcoholic Beverages (2)
(C) Health Benefit Providers (3) – Managed Healthcare (1), Supplemental Health (1), an< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< />...
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Restaurant shake-up eill favor nimble players
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Filed under: Industry, Market matters, McDonald's (MCD), Walgreen Co (WAG), Best Buy (BBY), Circuit City Stores (CC), CVS Corp (CVS), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Yum Brands (YUM), U.S. Steel (X), Stocks to Buy, Rite Aid Corp (RAD), Cramer on BloggingStocks  TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that as consumers try to stretch their dining dollar, Darden, Yum! and McDonald's will benefit.
We all know we are overstored in this country and over-restauranted. There are tons of players -- so many that the competition got too hard. Now they collapse. That Uno might miss a payment, that Bennigan's and S...
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Trading Ideas: CVS
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CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS) is a pharmacy benefit management company that also operates retail pharmaceutical stores in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> United States </st1:place> </st1:country-region> . It has over 6000 retail drugstores in the country. <o:p> </o:p> <> <> There is a lot of good stuff happening at CVS, which is why its stock has been faring well. Its purchase of Caremark has been handled wonderfully and contributed to an 84% increase in first-quarter profits. Revenues also jumped 61%. The pharmacy benefit management business is...
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CVS One of the Best-Positioned Retail Growth Companies
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5/2 - "Chief Financial Officer David Rickard noted on the conference call that consumers may be hesitating to buy large-ticket discretionary items, but small-ticket items like Snickers bars still are finding their way into shopping baskets. Of course, front-end (retail) items only make up about 15% of revenue for CVS, but they are an important driver of transaction size and overall profitability."
"Management is also touting its success with in-store MinuteClinics, serving 300,000 customers this past quarter. At 510 clinics in operation, that works out to 6.5 customers a day, which doesn't...
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CVS Poised to Do Well Over Long-Term
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5/5 - "CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), a big competitor of both Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) and Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD), released its Q1 earnings last week. They were very good, and they reminded me that I probably need to throw a drugstore chain's stock in my core portfolio as a long-term play on the increasing health-care needs of the baby boomers (and every other demo, for that matter)...The Caremark merger has obviously proven to be a good move."
"Buying at the 52-week high is always a dicey thing, but if you plan on holding for years, it wouldn't be that much of a concern. Shorter-term traders would ...
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