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OCR: Bull or Bear?

Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Prospects Graphic_rating_buy OCR
Mikerun
73%
 -6.81%
in 273 days

The accompanying table includes 38 companies in the ETF Innovators Health Benefit Providers Index, which was down sharply in the past week and has lost 14% of its market value to a level of 192,305 since I last wrote about the group five weeks ago.

<> <> The uncertain future for health insurers and benefit providers that I wrote about previously came to a head this week with plans by President Obama for healthcare reform aimed at cutting health costs by favoring generic drug makers and smaller Medicare Advantage payments to private insurers, along with smaller increases...
By  Mike Havrilla   (+1.04%  risk: conservative)  02/28/09 Comment


Health Benefit Providers Face Uncertain Future Graphic_rating_buy OCR
Mikerun
73%
 -7.10%
in 38 days
(closed on 02/28/09)
The table at my website link below contains 36 companies included in the ETF Innovators Health Benefit Providers Index. Many of the companies included in this index face an uncertain future with the prospect for healthcare reform threatening the profit margin of managed care companies; although the prospect for universal health insurance promises increased volumes as more Americans gain coverage.
 
 
<> The index contains retail pharmacies such as Rite Aid (RAD), pharmacy benefit managers su...
By  Mike Havrilla   (+1.04%  risk: conservative)  01/21/09 Comment


A New Global Healthcare Composite Index Graphic_rating_buy OCR
Mikerun
73%
 +28.22%
in 58 days
(closed on 01/21/09)

A New Global Healthcare Composite Index

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The accompanying table [click to enlarge or download] presents the top five rated companies with market caps of at least $250M from each of the 10 new healthcare indexes developed by ETF Innovators [ETFI] from a database of about 500 companies worldwide. The ETFI Global Healthcare Sector PerformIdex is a dynamic, semi-active index with monthly updates which consists of the 50 top-rated companies on an equal weight basis from each of the 10 healthcare indexes listed below and represents an alternative strategy to existing...
By  Mike Havrilla   (+1.04%  risk: conservative)  11/23/08 Comment


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Bullish on OCR ... Graphic_rating_buy OCR
Foto
62%
 -23.54%
in 447 days
Omnicare, Inc., a geriatric pharmaceutical services company, provides pharmaceuticals and related ancillary pharmacy services. The company�s Pharmacy Services segment distributes pharmaceuticals and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services, data management services, and medical supplies to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, retirement centers, independent living communities, hospitals, hospice, and other healthcare service providers. It purchases, repackages, and dispenses prescription and non prescription pharmaceuticals; provides computerize...
By  Marian Filo   (-24.55%  risk: aggressive)  09/06/08 Comment


OCR: Is Omnicare Fit as a Fiddle? Graphic_rating_buy OCR
Billtrent
13%
 -5.12%
in 522 days

My latest column is up at RealMoney.

Omnicare (OCR) provides pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to a variety of health care providers. It also offers contract research services to drug manufacturers. Earnings have been a bit rocky, but free-cash-flow yield and other valuation metrics make this stock worth a checkup.

<>The company’s primary competitor is PharMerica (PMC) , and it lists its peers as AmerisourceBergen (ABC) , Parexel (PRXL) , Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPDI) , PSS World Medical (PSSI) , and Sunrise Senior Living (SRZ) . There...
By  Stock Market Beat   (-14.12%  risk: aggressive)  06/23/08 Comment


Omnicare Executives Uber Investors OCR
-29.09%
in 941 days
Omnicare (NYSE:OCR) laid an egg on Friday and announced disappointing Q1 results. Earnings’ per share are down. Net profits are down and revenues are down. Naturally the investor is down and the stock took a beating on Friday. Short term options traders prepared to feast on the Sep 07 35 and 32.5 puts as they bid up the prices on unusually higher volume. Where there is smoke there is fire and perhaps the bet is more bad news to come.

Joel F. Gemunder, Omnicare's president and chief executive officer made the usual comments that they are on the job and have strategies in place t...
By  George Gutowski   (-38.39%  risk: aggressive)  05/01/07 Comment





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