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WLP: Bull or Bear?
Health Benefit Providers Need a Check-Up
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-28.22%
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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 WLP ...
WLP
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+1.49%
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300 days
WellPoint, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a commercial health benefits company in the United States. It offers various network-based managed care plans to the large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. The company�s managed care plans include preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations, point-of-service plans, traditional indemnity plans, and other hybrid plans, including consumer-driven health plans, hospital only, and limited benefit products. WellPoint also provides various managed care services, including claims processing, ...
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WellPoint Keeps Itself Intact
WLP
-2.39%
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415 days
Our $69 price target is derived using a P/E multiple of 12.5x our revised FY08 EPS of $5.53 following management's lowered FY08 guidance.
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Buy Coventry Health (CVH) and UnitedHealth (UNH) Over Wellpoint
WLP
+3.99%
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477 days
3/11 - "We continue to favor CVH and UNH. CVH has a history of correctly gauging local market medical cost trends and pricing appropriately and UNH is working to reprice its commercial book of business in 2008."
"The group appears very washed out at this point, but calling trough multiples is always hard...Our experience is that operating stumbles in managed care are more often driven by poor pricing than sustained spikes in overall medical cost trends. Looking back over the years, operating stumbles (to varying degrees) at Oxford (1997), CI (2002), HNT (2004), AET (2006) and UNH (2007) ha...
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Buy WellPoint
WLP
+7.68%
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477 days
3/12 - "Buy WellPoint (WPT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), Jim Cramer said on CNBC's "Stop Trading!" segment Wednesday.
"I would buy WellPoint here," Cramer said. "They are obviously oversold. ... I cannot believe that WellPoint will be lower by the end of the year." He said he prefers the company to Humana."
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Goldman Slashes Outlook on Health Insurers Following WellPoint Warning
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+7.68%
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477 days
Via TheStreet.com's Melissa Davis:
3/12 - "Matthew Borsch of Goldman Sachs cut his outlook for the entire group. Borsch, for one, assumed that WellPoint's problems could soon spread.
"WellPoint's downside surprise to earnings changes our view," Borsch explained on Tuesday. "We are not willing to dismiss WellPoint's problem as mostly or entirely company specific."
Moreover, he added, "a quick fix may be elusive" for the group."
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Analyst Recommendation and Recent News
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-38.84%
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711 days
WLP Is a conservative pick. With the a recent restructuring in their corporate ladder and recent firing of their CFO there seems to be a great potential for growth. Lehman reiterate their "overweight" rating and its target has been reduced from 91 to 88. Buffet says that it is at the base of a triangle and that it should peak at about 92. Jim Cramer rates it a buy. Its a great safe play. You cannot go wrong with a healthcare stock even if you are concerned about a market downswing.
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Wellpoint Turbulence Bites Investors
WLP
-39.11%
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762 days
Wellpoint (NYSE:WLP) forced out a respected CFO due to some undisclosed transgression relating to the code of conduct. David Colby seems to be in hot water but no one can figure out what kind of problem. Wellpoint is making the problem worse by not disclosing the issue but has made the point that it was not an illegality and does not relate to the business of Wellpoint.
All this happens at a time when the CEO ranks were changing and the street would like some comfort with established names and faces. Eventually the story will come out but in the meantime the investor is being penaliz...
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