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New Index for Pet Care and Animal 'Farma' IDXX

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+58.92% in 304 days New Index for Pet Care & Animal 'Farma' <> The accompanying table [click to enlarge] provides statistics for the 37 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Pet and Animal Care Index, with the Top 25 rated stocks in the index outpacing the overall market and benchmark ETFs such as Market Vectors Agribusiness (MOO), Healthcare Sector SPDR (XLV), and iShares S&P Global Healthcare (IXJ) over the past year. The index tracks companies which are active in the following business segments: animal breeding, veterinary services, pet retailers, animal feeds... Continue reading »

A New Index of Pet & Animal Care Cos. IDXX

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+12.85% in 34 days (closed on 01/08/09) A New Index of Pet & Animal Care Companies <> <> The accompanying table [click to enlarge] provides statistics and the top 25 rated companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Animal Biz Index, which outpaced the overall market and benchmark ETFs such as Market Vectors Agribusiness (MOO), Healthcare Sector SPDR (XLV), and iShares S&P Global Healthcare (IXJ) over the past year. The index includes companies active in the following business segments: animal breeding, veterinary services, pet retailers, animal feeds/nutrition, and veterinary medicines/diagnostics.... Continue reading »

A Global AnimalBiz Index IDXX

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-5.85% in 429 days <> The accompanying tables present an overview of the market cap-weighted Global AnimalBiz Index, which includes 32 companies with market caps between $100 million to $10 billion US Dollars. The index excludes all big pharma and diversified healthcare giants which have animal health segments such as Schering-Plough (Intervet), Novartis, Pfizer, Merck + Sanofi-Aventis joint venture ( Merial ), Wyeth (Fort Dodge), and Eli Lilly (Elanco). These companies are excluded to make the index more leveraged to animal care as this segment typically represents only about 5% of their sales.... Continue reading »

IDEXX Laboratories Inc. IDXX

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+3.30% in 496 days   <> IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. develops, designs, manufactures, and distributes products for veterinary, and food and water testing markets. It operates in three segments: Companion Animal Group (CAG), Water Quality Products (Water), and Production Animal Segment (PAS). The CAG segment provides point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, such as instruments and consumables, and rapid assays; information products and services, and digital radiography systems for veterinarians; and veterinary pharmaceutical products. This segment also offers commercial veterinary reference laboratory and... Continue reading »

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Trading Radar for 10/23: Microsoft (MSFT), Honeywell (HON), Schlumberger (SLB), Whirlpool (WHR) Report

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow's trading session:<u>Before Market Opens:</u>Earnings:Active Power, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW)AVX Corporation (NYSE: AVX)Cache, Inc. (NASDAQ: CACH)Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (NASDAQ: CHRT)Columbus McKinnon (NASDAQ: CMCO)Donegal Group (NASDAQ: DGICA)Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV)EMC Insurance Group (NASDAQ: EMCI)Empire District Electric (NYSE: EDE)Empresas ICA S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: ICA)ENCORE BANCSHARES INC (NASDAQ: EBTX)Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC)Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO)Honeywell (NYSE: HON)Horizon Line... Continue reading »

Create Your Own Diagnostics ETF

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With HealthShares closing shop at year-end, including the former Diagnostics fund, investors who are interested in the space can create their own ETF comprised of companies from the ETF Innovators Preventive Medicine and Emerging Diagnostics Indexes. Below is a list of companies which have stocks listed for trading in the U.S. at over $1/share with a market cap of less than $10B, focusing on smaller companies which are more leveraged to diagnostics and represent possible takeover targets for larger players such as Roche (RHHBY), Abbott Labs (ABT), and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). However, the sm... Continue reading »

A New Index of Pet & Animal Care Companies

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<>The accompanying table [click to enlarge] provides statistics and the top 25 rated companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Animal Biz Index, which outpaced the overall market and benchmark ETFs such as Market Vectors Agribusiness (MOO), Healthcare Sector SPDR (XLV), and iShares S&P Global Healthcare (IXJ) over the past year. The index includes companies active in the following business segments: animal breeding, veterinary services, pet retailers, animal feeds/nutrition, and veterinary medicines/diagnostics. Some top rated companies which have U.S.-listed stocks include Neogen (NEOG)... Continue reading »

A New Index of Pet & Animal Care Companies

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<>The accompanying table [click to enlarge] provides statistics and the top 25 rated companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Animal Biz Index, which outpaced the overall market and benchmark ETFs such as Market Vectors Agribusiness (MOO), Healthcare Sector SPDR (XLV), and iShares S&P Global Healthcare (IXJ) over the past year. The index includes companies active in the following business segments: animal breeding, veterinary services, pet retailers, animal feeds/nutrition, and veterinary medicines/diagnostics. Some top rated companies which have U.S.-listed stocks include Neogen (NEOG)... Continue reading »

Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AIZ, RIMM, ING, URBN ...

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades:<> Merrill believes Assurant (NYSE: AIZ) is well-positioned to weather the turmoil in the capital markets environment and cites the company's defensive characteristics for the upgrade. The firm upgraded shares to Buy from Neutral. Deutsche Bank upgraded R.H. Donnelly (NYSE: RHD) to Hold from Sell to reflect the company's cost cuts and its ability to buy back bonds at discounted prices. <>Citigroup raised Consol Energy (NYSE: CNX) to Buy from Hold on valuation as they are seeing no funda... Continue reading »

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