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Avondale Initiates Kindred (KND) Coverage With Outperform
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 2:38pm | 124Avondale Partners began the coverage of Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND)(FREE stock trend analysis) with an Outperform rating. Kindred is a Kentucky-based provider of the long-term acute care, rehabilitation therapy and skilled nursing facilities. The set price target of $24 is nearly 40% higher than...
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Community Health Systems (CYH) Is The Pick Among Healthcare Stocks
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 5:23pm | 102Barclays finds Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH)(FREE stock trend analysis) to be one of the best run hospital companies and believes that Community has additional opportunities to improve results. Community had been able to cut costs over the past year and is well positioned to take advantage...
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BKD’s Rents to Benefit from Strong Demographics and Historically Low Supply Growth
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 2:30pm | 143Analysts at Goldman Sachs reiterate their "buy" rating on Brookdale Senior Living Inc (NYSE: BKD), while adding the company to the Conviction Buy List. The 12-month target price for BKD has been raised from $20 to $22. According to Goldman Sachs, BKD’s shares offer approximately 30% upside in the...
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Company News for December 14, 2009 - Corporate Summary
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 9:58am | 184• Citigroup (NYSE:C) announced its agreement to repay the $20 billion in TARP bailout funds • Reports said Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) plans to begin selling its own "Nexus One" cell phone directly to customers as early as next year • The holiday shipping rush kicks in this week, with FedEx (NYSE:FDX)...
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Company News for December 07, 2009 - Corporate Summary
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 10:10am | 318• MetLife (NYSE:MET) provided better-than-consensus 2010 earnings expectations of $4.00-$4.40, ahead of the Street forecast of $4.11. The firm said it sees fourth-quarter revenues and fees of $8.50-$9.10 billion, with earnings of 90-95 cents • Cummins (NYSE:CMI) was added to Goldman Sachs' (NYSE:...
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Price Target Research Stays Neutral On Capital Senior Living Corp (CSU)
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 3:17pm | 77Research house Price Target Research has maintained a rating of Neutral on Texas based social services company Capital Senior Living Corp (NYSE: CSU). The research house said that CSU is suited for capital gain oriented investors. However, Price Target has given a slightly higher than consensus...
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5 Top Small-Cap Stocks with Highest Net Income (ACAS, ABK, EK, HLS, SNV)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 8:25am | 167Below are interesting small-cap stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ that have highest net income. American Capital Ltd (NASDAQ: ACAS) has the net income of $991.0 million and a market capitalization of $867.8 million. Keefe Bruyette upgraded ACAS from “underperform” to “market perform.” Ambac Financial...
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VCA Antech: Northcoast Research Uncovers 3 Additional Unannounced Hospital Acquisitions
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 11:56am | 137This Morning, Northcoast Research reiterated their “Neutral” rating for VCA Antech, Inc. (NASDAQ: WOOF), while increasing their FY10 estimates by $0.01. The Firm Said: “While WOOF has not publicly disclosed any acquisition activity this quarter, our research has uncovered three additional...
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Benzinga’s Top Gainers (NLST, TTIL, SRZ, NWY, DCI, SOLF)
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:07pm | 248Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST) soared 19% to $5.73 on 5.60 million shares. In the past five trading sessions, NLST stock is up over 590%. TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. (NASDAQ: TTIL) jumped 28% to $1.51 after it reporte Q3 EPS of $0.07, 7 cents better than the analyst estimate of $0.00 and...
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Brookdale Senior Living (BKD) Closes Sunrise Portfolio Acquisition
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 7:41am | 92Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of communities from affiliates of Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (SRZ). The Company acquired 18 communities and three additional communities were acquired directly from Sunrise by an unrelated...
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The Ensign Group (ENSG) Secures $40M Loan From GE Capital (GE)
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 6:58am | 122The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG), the parent company of the Ensign(TM) group of skilled nursing, rehabilitative care services, hospice care and assisted living companies, announced that a group of its real estate holding subsidiaries has placed mortgages on six of the Company's 27 unencumbered...
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Benzinga’s Top 5 Upgrades (PETD, CPST, SMP, HMA, RHI)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 12:33pm | 186Petroleum Development Corporation (NASDAQ: PETD) was today upgraded by Global Hunter Securities from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $30. Petroleum Development Corporation (NASDAQ: PETD) is now trading at $19.71, 0.35% down. Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ: CPST) was today upgraded by...
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Today's Morning Top Losers (CHDX, CHNG, RDNT, SRZ, TEC)
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 11:52am | 175Chindex International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHDX) is the top percentage loser in morning trade and plunged by 22.80% today to $12.51 on volume 738K shares after CHDX announced its second quarter loss. China Natural Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHNG) declined 22.50% on 1,24 million shares and now trades at $10.30...
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Skilled Healthcare (SHK) Group Reports Q3 Earnings of $0.25 Per Share
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 7:18am | 145Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH) announced its unaudited consolidated financial operating results for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2009. Total consolidated revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2009 was $188.4M, an increase of 3.2 percent, compared to...
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Skilled Healthcare Group Inc (NYSE:SKH) Upgrade From Hold to Buy.
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 12:24pm | 107Skilled Healthcare Group Inc (NYSE: SKH) Upgrade From Hold to Buy. Skilled Healthcare Group Inc, (SKH) was upgraded to a buy from a hold by Jefferies & Co. Technically speaking, SKH crossed above its 50 day M.A. today and at $8.43 is not at all impossible to see it rise further and test...