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Health Benefit Providers Need a Check-Up
WLP
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-34.38%
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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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+6.36%
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441 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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Analyst Recommendation and Recent News
WLP
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-35.90%
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852 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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Bullish on WLP ...
WLP
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-7.47%
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29 days
(closed on 08/03/07)
Jul 5: The rising support line make just be the base of an ascending triangle and therefore the presumed target is 92. At the very least, a move to resistance at ~85 is likely on the cards given the signals on the momentum indicators. Find the chart and other analysis at http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/Favorites.CServlet?obj=ID2...
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Wellpoint Turbulence Bites Investors
WLP
-36.18%
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903 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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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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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Pelosi can't kill the health care sector
WLP
Cramer on BloggingStocks: All I'm asking for is rigor
WLP
+2.61%
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4 days
(closed on 11/09/09)
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Oh boy, I hit a nerve. My last two days of donning the bear suit and ...
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The GOP’s Health Care Plan – Analyst Blog
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Recently, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) quipped on the floor of the House that the GOP health care plan amounted to: "1) Don’t get sick, and 2) If you do get sick, die quickly." Yesterday, John Boehner (R-OH), the top GOP man in the House, finally unveiled the official GOP plan...and did little to disprove Rep. Grayson.
The GOP plan would allow firms like WellPoint (WLP) and Aetna (AET) to continue to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. It would not offer any subsidies to the working poor to help them get covered, and would not require people to buy health insurance, or for employer...
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