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New Stock Indexes to Track Healthcare Trends
UNH
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+15.58%
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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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(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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+43.01%
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375 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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(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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+3.32%
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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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From the Blogosphere
Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Aetna Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Assurant Inc. and Cigna Corp. – Press Releases
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For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – November 20, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Aetna Inc. (AET), UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH), WellPoint Inc. (WLP), Assurant Inc. (AIZ) and Cigna Corp. (CI). Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: http://at.zacks.com/?id=5513 Here are highlights from Thursday’s Analyst Blog: <><>Aetna...
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Aetna Axes Jobs – Analyst Blog
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In a bid to become more efficient, the health insurer Aetna Inc. (AET) announced on Wednesday its intention to shed a total of 1,250 jobs or about 3.5% of its total workforce by the first quarter of 2010. Management intends to do so in two phases, by slashing 625 jobs now and the remaining early next year.
The company expects to record after-tax restructuring charges of $40 million in fourth quarter 2009. Last December, the company cut 1,000 jobs, which was 3% of its total workforce. The company plans to slash majority of the jobs at its headquarters in Connecticut .
Aetna with a total he...
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Options Update: UnitedHealth volatility at 16-month lows
Filed under: Options  UnitedHealth (UNH) closed at $29.08 Friday, near one-year high. UnitedHealth is hosting an investor meeting on December 2. December option implied volatility is at 40; January is at 42; below its 26-week average of 48 according to Track Data, suggesting decreasing price movement.
Semiconductor Holders Trust - SMH overall volatility at 29; 26-week average is 33. Russell 2000 - IWM overall implied volatility at 27; 26-week average is 33.
Financial Select Sector - XLF overall volatility at 34; 26-week average is 40. <><>Option Update is provided by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of ...
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Enterprising Value Portfolio – October 2009 Update
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 On the second Thursday of every month (I know, I’m a day late…), we will screen our database for the 10 companies trading at the lowest ratio to their intrinsic value, as determined by our formula, and that are suitable for the enterprising investor. These 10 companies will be placed in a mock portfolio and rebalanced to have a 10% allocation to each company. The starting value of the portfolio is $100,000.00. Dividends will be reinvested in the portfolio.
To see the portfolio, you can view this google spreadsheet. <>This month, the screen resulted in the following companies being targete...
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Health Net Beats Estimates – Analyst Blog
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Health Net’s (HNT) third-quarter earnings per share came in at 67 cents, well above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 61 cents and the year-ago earnings of 35 cents. The company reported revenues of $4 billion, an increase of 3.9% compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. The company receives revenues in the form of health plan service premiums, government contracts, net investment income and administrative services, fees and other income. <>Health plan services premium, accounting for approximately 80% of total revenues during the quarter increased 3% year over year to $3.17 million...
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Started socialpicks on 6/30. some stocks here are not in...
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Stock update and watch list 7/29/08
- Due to difficulties understanding the socialpicks system regarding changing rating from buy to hold and thus resetting the performance, I wanted to sum...
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How to reform US health care?
- 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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