Health Care Facilities

SunLink Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: SSY) today announced a loss from continuing operations for its fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2010 of $2,645,000, or a loss of $0.33 per fully diluted share, compared to earnings from continuing operations of $549,000, or $0.07 per fully diluted share, for...

HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) remains a compelling LT play in a post-acute subsector with stable reimbursement, Jefferies & Company reports. “The company, which is trading at a compelling 8x FY11 EBITDA, is highly transparent and characterized by predictable, resilient volumes and good...

Jefferies & Company published a health care update today as 47% of their covered companies guidance was maintained or in line with the street. Jefferies & Co. think management teams are taking a more cautious and realistic approach because of "2010's soft utilization trends, HC reform and...

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is Overweight on Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC), and it has a $8 price target on shares. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, "Shares of Tenet trade at 6.0x and 5.7x enterprise value to our respective 2011 and 2012 EBITDA outlooks, compared to the acute...

Cusick's Corner I did say that we should be ready for a consolidated market and we certainly have it going into the last trading day of the week. The NASDAQ was very busy as tech bellwether, Cisco, CSCO, was down hard under heavy trading. But we did see some key commodity markets, like Copper,...

Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. Health Management Associates (NYSE: HMA) 2,505 puts, 35 calls 2. Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN) 5,309 puts, 89 calls 3. Warner Chilcott (NASDAQ: WCRX) 11,375 puts, 530 calls 4. International...

Shares of Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) are lower on the session by 0.31%, currently trading at $41.58. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past four months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Shares are trading near resistance, at $42.00....

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) is upgraded from Market Perform to Outperform at Morgan Keegan. The analysts raised their price target on BKD from $17.50 to $24.

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) announced today the sale of an aggregate of 13,000,000 shares of its common stock by certain affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC at a price of $18.76 per share. The Company will not sell any shares in the offering and will not receive any of the...

Unconfirmed Rumors that VCA Antech Inc. (WOOF) is takeover target in low 30s possible buyers include IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (IDXX)..

Emeritus Corporation (NYSE: ESC) today announced the pricing of a previously announced underwritten public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $18.25 per share. 4,000,000 shares of common stock will be sold by Emeritus and 1,000,000 shares will be sold by...

Emeritus Corporation (NYSE: ESC) today announced that it and certain selling shareholders have commenced an underwritten public offering of an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock, of which 3,500,000 shares will be sold by Emeritus and 500,000 shares will be sold by the...

For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – November 8, 2010 – Zacks Equity Research highlights W. W. Grainger (GWW) as the Bull of the Day and Jacobs Engineering (JEC) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Ventas Inc. (VTR), Sunrise Senior Living Inc. (SRZ) and...

Stifel Nicolaus downgrades Penn West Energy (NYSE: PWE) and Assisted Living Concepts (NYSE: ALC) from Buy to Hold.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is reiterating its Overweight rating on TreeHouse Foods Inc. (NYSE: THC), along with it s $57 price target after the company reported earnings on Friday. In a research report sent to cleints, J.P. Morgan writes, "We have little doubt that THS can and will raise prices...