Health Care Services

Owens Corning Inc (NYSE: OC) is expected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.57 on revenue of $1.38 billion. Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) is estimated to report its Q2 earnings at $0.56 per share on revenue of $6.81 billion. Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.41 on...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels and exit/entry points become more clearly defined. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Monday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to...

Fresenius Medical Care (NYSE: FMS) announced the purchase of two U.S. dialysis companies with a combined price tag of $2.09 billion on Tuesday. The German-based company said it would buy privately held Liberty Dialysis Holdings for $1.7 billion including about $1 billion in assumed debt. It also...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels and exit/entry points become more clearly defined. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Monday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to...

VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN (NYSE: TVIX) led the decliners among the ETFs on Monday, with a 8.41% loss. TVIX closed at $19.38, and it had a volume of 4.20M traded shares. Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X (ETF) (NYSE: DRN) lost 4.89%, and closed at $71.19. In the real estate space...

Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) 3,624 puts, 25 calls 2. Banco Bradesco (NYSE: BBD) 2,945 puts, 95 calls 3. NII Holdings (NASDAQ: NIHD) 3,492 puts, 113 calls 4. Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) 4,280 puts, 191 calls 5. Cemex SAB (NYSE: CX) 7,176...

The U.S. Army recently awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $60 million follow-on production contract for the combat-proven Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor, also known as Arrowhead®, for the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter. The $60 million Lot 8 base...

POINT ROBERTS, August 1, 2011 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, reports on top percentage gainers on the NASDAQ for July 29, 2011. On Friday, Allied Healthcare International's stock climbed 56%. Allied Healthcare International Inc. (NASDAQ: AHCI...

CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) unveils its next round of earnings this Thursday, August 4, 2011. Get prepared with Benzinga's ultimate preview for CVS Caremark's second quarter earnings. Earnings and Revenue: Analysts are predicting an EPS reading of 64 cents/share and revenues of $26.76 billion....

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is out with a research report on HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY) and it has a Buy rating and a $87 price target on shares. In a note to clients, Bank of America Merrill Lynch writes, "HMSY's 2Q11 GAAP EPS beat our $0.40 estimate on stronger revenues that drove...

PDI, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDII) today announced that, through a newly formed business unit, Interpace BioPharma, LLC, it has entered into a two-and-a-half-year, fee-for-service agreement with a pharmaceutical company to market in the United States and its territories a treatment for pain of the knee. The...

According to Jefferies, HMS Holdings (NASDAQ: HMSY) continues to make RAC headway. Jefferies said that its $75 PT is based on a 30x multiple of its 2012 adj. EPS estimate of $2.52, representing a slight premium to historical averages. “Risks include possible delays in Medicaid RAC implementations...

Morgan Keegan is out with a research report on Alliance HealthCare Services (NYSE: AIQ) and it has a Market Perform rating and a $4.75 price target on shares as it previews earnings. In a note to clients, Morgan Keegan writes, "Our adjusted EBITDA estimate is $43 million, up slightly from $42.5...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels and exit/entry points become more clearly defined. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Friday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to...

Pre-open movers US stock futures are lower this morning, after Thursday's House budget vote on the US debt ceiling was rescheduled. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 74 points to 12,119.00 and S&P 500 index futures fell 7.20 points to 1,289.60. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 10.75...