Drug Retail

In early morning trading, CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) is down nearly 25% after the CEO made cautious comments on the conference call. Some of the negative items from CVS's call are below: -CVS Caremark CEO Tom Ryan said: "I would be disappointed if we didn't have an EPS growth of at least 13%-15% next...

Here's the ETF Professor's ETF Watchlist for Thursday November 5, 2009. If Qualcomm's earnings fail to lift the stock higher, and they very well may fail in the endeavor, take a look at the iShares Dow Jones US Technology ETF (NYSE: IYW). Cigna (NYSE: CI) reports earnings before the bell, so keep...

Walgreen's (NYSE: WAG) announces $2 billion buyback program.

From the moment that I saw Dr.Oz receiving a flu shot from a Walgreens representative on his new daytime show, I knew that only good could come of it. A combination of cost cutting, the H1N1 flu, and the recession coming to an end in the US seems to have Walgreen (WAG) up and at 'em again. The US...

Sunair Services Corp. (AMEX: SNR) is the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged among 45% today to $2.68 on unusual volume of 1.72 million shares after today it announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Massey Services, Inc. pursuant to which Massey would...

Walgreen Company (NYSE: WAG) Analysts expect the retail drugstore chain's earnings per share to drop 13 percent to 39 cents a share for the fourth quarter that ended Aug. 31, from last year's same-quarter profit of 45 cents per share. The company WAG  is expected to post revenue of $15.68 billion....

Research In Motion Limited (USA) (NASDAQ: RIMM) fell sharply 15.72% to its more than one month low $70.00 on massive volume of 50.36 million shares so far after  its second fiscal quarter declined to $475.6 million, or 83 cents per share, from $495.5 million, or 86 cents a share, for the same...

Speedus Corp. (NASDAQ: SPDE) crossed its earlier 52-week high of $4.84 and touched a new 52-week high at $8.33 in today’s morning trade. Currently the stock is trading at $8.33, up 156% on 1.66 million shares as today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its...

WSJ -- Retail health clinics are adding treatments for chronic diseases such as asthma to their repertoire, hoping to find steadier revenue, but putting the clinics into greater competition with doctors' groups and hospitals. Walgreen Co.'s Take Care retail clinic recently started a pilot program...

US News Health Day -- Walk-in retail clinics staffed by nurse practitioners provide high-quality care for routine illnesses, a new study has found.Writing in the Sept. 1 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, study author Dr. Ateev Mehrotra said that retail clinics -- which are typically staffed...

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the moneygardener darling, US drugstore chain Walgreen Co. (WAG) has increased it's quarterly dividend by 22%. This is the 35th consecutive year that Walgreen has raised it's dividend. Walgreen has been growing it's dividend at a torrid pace over the past few years. In fact, since 2006 WAG has...

The following post was written by Saj Karsan. Saj regularly writes for Barel Karsan, a site dedicated to finding and discussing value investments, and applying logic to investment decisions (as opposed to falling prey to psychological biases).In an "efficient market", all stocks are fairly priced...