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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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