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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market Losers
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 7:26am | 123Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE: GNW) dipped 9.93% to $8.53 in the pre-market session. GNW now projects a net operating loss of $70 million to $90 million for the second quarter. F5 Networks Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) dropped 7.57% to $103.00 in the pre-market trading. FFIV posted upbeat third-quarter...
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Piper Jaffray Reiterates OW Rating On MWIV
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 6:25am | 84Piper Jaffray has issued a report maintaining an Overweight Rating on MWI Veterinary Supply (NASDAQ: MWIV). According to Piper Jaffray, "We reiterate our Overweight rating on MWIV and are encouraged by the company's favorable showing in our recent survey of 201 vet clinics. MWIV was once again...
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Goldman Sachs Reiterates Buy on AmerisourceBergen, Removes the Stock from CL
Monday, July 18, 2011 - 8:30am | 52Goldman Sachs reiterated its Buy rating on AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC). At the same time, the rating agency removed the stock from its Conviction List. On Friday, ABC closed the day at $41.99. Its shares lost 2.1% of their value in today's pre-market trading to stand around $41.11.
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Deutsche Bank's Healthcare Services & Technology PT Changes 7/14
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 4:57am | 89Deutsche Bank has changed the price target on the following companies: McKesson (NYSE: MCK) Buy, PT from $108 to $103 Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) Buy, PT from $50 to $51 Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) Buy, PT from $67 to $65 AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC) Hold, PT from $45.50 to $44 Medco...
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Wednesday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 11:58am | 80Here are today's Put/Call Ratio leaders… 1. ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML) 2,718 puts, 5 calls 2. Jarden Corp. (NYSE: JAH) 6,934 puts, 21 calls 3. Yanzhou Coal Mining (NYSE: YZC) 3,038 puts, 34 calls 4. HealthSouth Corp. (NYSE: HLS) 2,972 puts, 58 calls 5. Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH) 3,323...
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Puts Purchased on Cardinal Health
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 10:41am | 122Shares of Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) are higher on the session by 0.67%, currently trading at $46.69. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short while ago...
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Top Ten Highest-Paid CEOs
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 3:28pm | 427Life is good at the top, isn't it? In a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and millions more are vastly underemployed, the very top of the food chain — corporate CEOs — raked in some pretty ridiculous cash. How ridiculous? You could take the top 299 CEOs most recent compensation and,...
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Morgan Stanley Overweight On McKesson Corporation
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 7:08am | 129Morgan Stanley has an Overweight rating on shares of McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) with an $86 price target. In a note to clients, Morgan Stanley writes, "Sales momentum for the Horizon ERM system remains slow with still only four fully “live” customers. Although management continues to point...
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Options Brief: McKesson Corporation
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 9:54am | 68Shares of McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) are higher on the session by 1.57%, trading at $83.27. Overall call volume is now running at 6.61x the daily average, with 38% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 5,293 contracts have traded on the session so far. McKesson Corporation...
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Citi Reiterates Hold and PT of $89 on McKesson
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 7:51am | 40Citi reiterated its Hold rating on McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK). At the same time, Citi left its price target on the company's stock unchanged at $89. On Monday, McKesson closed the day at $81.98.
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Credit Suisse Updates 6/24/11
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 6:21am | 325Credit Suisse made a number of updates in a research report published today, Southern Company (NYSE: SO) had its rating upgraded from Neutral to Outperform. At the same time, its price target was raised from $40 to $45. On Thursday, Southern lost 0.56% of its value to close the day at $39.34. Its...
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Credit Suisse Changes PT On AGU, CAH, DFS, MU
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 4:48am | 71Credit Suisse has changed the price target on the following companies: Agrium (NYSE: AGU) Outperform, from $108 to $111 Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) Outperform, from $51 to $53 Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) Neutral, from $25 to $28 Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) Outperform, from $15 to...
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Amerisource's Margins Grow For Generics
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 3:51pm | 70Specialty generics is helping to give a bigger boost to the bottom line of Valley Forge, Pa.-based AmerisourceBergen (ABC) . For its March-ended fiscal second quarter, the pharmaceutical services titan said that gross margin increased 12.3% vs. year-ago levels. Amerisource cited a larger-than-...
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Citi Reports On MCK's Investor Day
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 7:34am | 134Citi is keeping its Hold rating and its $89 price target on McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) following the company's recent Investor Day. Says Cit, in its report, “McKesson recently held its annual investor day in Boston. While little new was detailed and F2012 guidance was reiterated, management's...
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Safeguard Scientifics Announces That McKesson Will Acquire Portico Systems for $90 Million
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 7:31am | 138Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) today announced that technology partner company Portico Systems, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by McKesson (NYSE: MCK). McKesson has agreed to pay $90 million, in cash, for Portico, of which $5 million will be contingent upon the...