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UNH: Bull or Bear?
New Stock Indexes to Track Healthcare Trends
UNH
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+19.26%
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154 days
Below are new healthcare stock indexes I have created, revised, and tracked over the past few years which are now featured at a new website called Investars YOU. The new site includes automated index tracking and allows investors to create custom stock portfolios based on their individual preferences with the ability to invest real money by linking your brokerage account. TEVA, MYL, MO, UNH, AET, WYE, PFE, CRXL, MDRX, QSII, MRGE, ECLP, ZIXI, CPSI, CERN <> The <> <> <> Co...
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Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Prospects
UNH
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-29.08%
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119 days
(closed on 06/27/09)
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...
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Who's getting old?
UNH
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+47.55%
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381 days
Damn son of a #!*% stock market. Like yesterdays dollar is only worth .25 today in this bubble bursting market. Oh hi there!
Great bargains are flooding the floor right now and some will make it while others will drown. UNH is a survivor and I am adding it today. Hell the market can't get much lower can it? Anyhow back to the story.
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated provides healthcare services in the United States. The companys Health Care Services segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services; administrative and other management services to customers tha...
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Health Benefit Providers Need a Check-Up
UNH
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+18.96%
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118 days
(closed on 02/28/09)
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The accompanying table provides statistics and the top seven companies by market cap for the ETFI Health Benefit Providers Index & short ETF proposal of 33 companies with market caps over $100M, which includes all types of pharmacy services (retail, mail order, institutional), pharmacy benefit managers, managed care companies, health insurers, and supplemental health insurance. The 25 lowest rated companies in the index have lost nearly half of their market value in the past year, underperforming the Healthcare Sector S...
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Bullish on UNH ...
UNH
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+6.60%
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447 days
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated provides healthcare services in the United States. The company�s Health Care Services segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services; administrative and other management services to customers that self-insure the medical costs of their employees and their dependents; and non-employer based insurance options for purchase by individuals, which are designed to meet the health coverage needs of consumers and their families. This segment also delivers health care and well-being services to large national employers, individual consumers, and o...
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Time to Rethink Our View of Private Health Insurers?
UNH
+6.60%
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449 days
<>The Wall Street Journal “Price Strategy Puts WellPoint in Bind†reports that the CEO of America’s largest health insurer, Angela Braly, is having difficulty balancing shareholders' need for profits with unaffordable premiums. To cope with rising medical expenses, WellPoint (WLP), sharply increased premiums. WellPoint lost 189,000 members in the first six months of 2008 and predicts 150,000 more will be lost by year end. Now neither shareholders nor policy holders are happy.
WellPoint’s membership loss story parallels UnitedHealth Group (UNH) <>membership losse...
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Exercise Credits: A Financial Incentive to Combat a Growing Health Epidemic
UNH
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-22.14%
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40 days
(closed on 10/03/08)
<> Just as carbon credits were created out of the thin air to create a financial incentive to mitigate global warming through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; perhaps exercise credits should be considered as a new type of health commodity to combat the growing obesity epidemic in the United States and other developed countries. According to statistics [PDF] at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website [CDC.gov], only one state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20% last ye...
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Buy buy buy!
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+6.84%
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485 days
These guys are definitely at or near their bottom. Legal issues re: option grants are behind them and cost was all written down last quarter. They are facing pressure from Medicare cuts and changes, but they are going through some gradual restructuring to cut costs and adapt. This company has become more than a little bloated via various acquisitions over the years, and earnings pressure has finally forced them to reevaluate their organization and cut fat. Plenty of money to be made here in the long term, but could be a little flat until we start to see a rise towards historical highs.
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Update - up 20%+ in 9 days
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-18.80%
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75 days
(closed on 10/06/08)
I thought this could be a falling knife or just an overreaction by the market. I would not buy at this point so I rate this a hold. May get a bit of a pullback after the run. Since I am longer term investor who does not believe one can choose the absolute top/bottom...I will hold on to my shares
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UNH - falling knife or opportunity
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+24.88%
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9 days
(closed on 07/23/08)
Stock is good. Concerns are about management and government influences. I think this stock will give a decent return over the next 12 months. Will sell in less than 12 months if balance sheet deteriorates.
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Now, United Health (UNH) Looks Cheap
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+5.11%
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11 days
(closed on 07/18/08)
United Health is the parent company of United Healthcare of California, one of the Bay Area's largest health plans.
Chief Executive Stephen J. Hemsley noted the quarter's results were hurt by lower margins, adding that second-quarter weakness also stems from reduced margins at its risk-based businesses and Medicare operations. "We are continuing to take the aggressive specific steps necessary to improve our operating performance, as well as to better position our organization for sustained future growth," he said. To stop weakness in the risk-based operations, the company has been le...
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As UnitedHealth Lowers Guidance, Stock Looks Cheap
UNH
+28.66%
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512 days
As I expected, UnitedHealth (UNH) lowered its profit guidance for this year. The company now sees EPS coming in between $2.95 to $3.05. <><>Chief Executive Stephen J. Hemsley noted the quarter's results were hurt by lower margins, adding that second-quarter weakness also stems from reduced margins at its risk-based businesses and Medicare operations. "We are continuing to take the aggressive specific steps necessary to improve our operating performance, as well as to better position our organization for sustained future growth," he said. To stop weakness in the risk-based operations, the com...
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United Health: Good Medicine for Your Portfolio
UNH
-12.18%
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574 days
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) is a leading diversified health and wellness provider. They serve about 70 million people through four major business units:
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- Health Care Services
- OptimumHealth
- Ingenix
- Prescription Solutions.
2007 revenues were $75.43 billion and earnings came in at an all-time high of $3.42 /share. Value Line rates UNH as an 'A+' financial strength and assigns it 95th percentile rankings for both earnings predictability and share 'price growth persistence'.
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Better Thing Yet to Come for UnitedHealth; Maintaining Outperform
UNH
-13.19%
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582 days
4/23 - "UnitedHealth Group’s 1Q08 performance was generally in line with vastly lowered expectations but its outlook was less than encouraging. While medical cost trends were in line with our expectations, worse-than-expected enrollment attrition took its toll. The company cited a softening economy as a contributing factor to the miss as well as its own underperformance. First quarter’s result may not have reflected the level of improvement expected by the Street, but we do not believe the punishment fit the crime. We have slashed our estimates to reflect the bleak short-term outlook, but w...
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- Jim Jubak in a recent article argued that the best method to reform health care was to hand it to Walmart.They would cut down on salaries,medicine cost...
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