Managed Health Care

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized payment of a cash dividend of $0.1625 per share, to be paid on June 21, 2011, to all shareholders of record of UnitedHealth Group common stock as of the close of business on June 7, 2011. This represents an...

Citadel Securities has changed the price target on the following companies: Aetna Inc (NYSE: AET) / $44.39, Neutral Price Target $49.00 Previous Price Target: $40.00 Amerigroup Corporation (NYSE: AGP) / $67.88, Neutral Price Target $60.00 Previous Price Target: $43.00 Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) / $...

Oppenheimer is maintaining a Perform rating and a $47 price target on Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) after the company announced its share repurchase program. Says Oppenheimer, in its report, “Aetna announced that its Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase of up to $750M in common stock. This...

Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced authorization for the company to repurchase up to an additional $750 million of its common stock from time to time. This authorization is in addition to the approximately $315 million of repurchase authority available under Aetna's prior authorization. The company...

Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced that it has completed a public offering of $500 million of 4.125 percent Senior Notes due in 2021. The company expects to use a majority of the net proceeds to repay its 5.75 percent Senior Notes when due at maturity on June 15, 2011. In the interim, the company...

JP Morgan has raised the price target on WellCare Health Plans (NYSE: WCG) from $41 to $54 and maintains its Neutral rating.

Shares of Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE: CVH) are lower on the session by 0.06%, currently trading at $34.65. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...

15) Angela F. Braly- President and chief executive officer for WellPoint Inc. (WLP) 14) Ilene Gordon- Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Corn Products International Inc. (CPO) 13) Ho Ching- Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings Angela F. Braly ◄ Back...

Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) today announced that it has commenced an offering of approximately $250 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2017 through underwriters led by Barclays Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo Securities. Allen & Company LLC, Morgan Stanley...

Hello everyone!!! Please accept my apologies for missing the update on Thursday, this was due to a problem on Google servers that kept me from doing any update, i even tried this morning but the service was still under maintenance. Fortunately the problem was already solved by the engineers of...

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), provider of visual computing technologies and the inventor of the graphics processing unit, is down 6.3% premarket to $19.22, relative to a 52-week range of $8.65-$26.17. Penson Worldwide (PNSN), provider of a range of critical securities and futures processing...

According to Morgan Stanley, CIGNA (NYSE: CI) story is evolving away from traditional multi-line structure. Morgan Stanley said that even against a challenging backdrop over the last few years, CI has made progress in expanding its breadth, strengthening its capital position, and repositioning the...

Morgan Stanley is modestly raising its 2011/2012/2013 EPS forecasts on Health Net Inc. (NYSE: HNT) to $3.00/ $3.28/$3.65 from $2.86/$3.20/$3.55, “reflecting our expectation for more meaningful commercial MLR improvement in 2011 and more share buybacks, partially offset by higher MA and PDP MLRs, as...

Aetna (NYSE: AET) and The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) today announced a strategic alliance that will provide Aetna clients and members with greater access to financial protection plans. Through this agreement, Aetna expects to offer Allstate Benefits' voluntary Critical Illness Plans and...

Here's my other long position that I took today - UnitedHealth Group (UNH), where I took a long position at $50.21 (as I said talked about doing in my previous post). Here's the chart on UNH. Read more...