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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
CVS
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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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From the Blogosphere
Company News for November 5, 2009 – Corporate Summary
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• Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) reported better-than-expected first quarter adjusted earnings of 36 cents a share, versus 37 cents a year ago, beating Zacks estimates of 26 cents a share. Revenues of $9 billion, though off last year's $10.3 billion, exceeded Zacks projections of $8.75 billion. Current quarter revenue guidance was lifted to 1%-4% growth from a year ago to $9.9 billion-$10.2 billion. CEO John Chambers said the numbers "continued to reflect strong sequential growth trends," as he noted an improving economic outlook <>• Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) reported a surprise quarterly pro<><><><><><>< /><><>< /><>< /><>< />< />...
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CVS Caremark Beats by a Penny – Analyst Blog
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CVS Caremark’s (CVS) third-quarter earnings came in at 65 cents, a cent above the Zacks Consensus Estimate and higher than 60 cents reported in the year ago period. Revenues increased 18.2% year over year to $24.6 billion primarily due to robust growth of both segments - pharmacy services and retail pharmacy. However, gross margin declined to 20.3% in the reported quarter compared to 21.1% in the year ago period. <>We are pleased to see the robust performance of the pharmacy services segment during the reported quarter. Revenues increased 23.4% to $13 billion. Revenue growth would have been ...
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Trading Radar for 11/05: Starbucks (SBUX), CBS Corp. (CBS), CVS (CVS), Toyota (TM), Thomson Reuters (TRI)
The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow's trading session:<u>Before Market Opens:</u>Economics:8:30am ET- Employment Cost Index - no Street consensus
- Initial jobless claims - Street Sees 520K
- Continuing Claims - Street Sees 5.75M
Earnings:Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD) – consensus loss $0.21Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABII) – consensus loss $0.55ACI Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACIW) – consensus EPS $0.29Alexandria Real Estate (NYSE: ARE) – consensus EPS $1.13American Shared Hospital Services (NYSE: AMS) – no consensusANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS) – con...
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Walgreen worries about public option…
 With the news yesterday that some form of the public option for healthcare appears to be moving forward, we can probably expect more companies to start including warnings like Walgreen (WAG) did in the 10-K it filed yesterday:
<><>The Federal government has been considering proposals to reform the U.S. health care system. These proposals may increase government involvement in health care, increase regulation of pharmacy services, result in changes to pharmacy reimbursement rates, and otherwise change the way we do business. The effect of these proposals could have an impact on our results of ope...
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Foursome of 'healthy' blue chips
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 Kelley Wright, a value & dividend investor, is cautious on the market; nevertheless, he sees long-term opportunity in the health care sector. Here's the latest from IQ Trends.
"I suspect that much of the current rally is attributable to fund managers moving their large stash of cash from the sidelines into the markets. "No manager wants to miss out, even if their research and instincts tell them otherwise. Heaven forbid their performance is beneath that of their peers. <>"I suspect though that this embrace of equities will be short-lived and will move elsewhere at the first hint of trouble. In...
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