-
Benzinga’s Stocks Roundup (PLCE, BKE, BRC, AET, BX)
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 9:25am | 304Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCE) today announced its third-quarter net income of $37.8 million, or $1.37 a share. Net sales for 3Q was up to $463.2 million from $450.6 million same quarter last year compared to analysts estimates of $1.37 cents a share. Children's Place Retail...
-
Molina Healthcare (MOH) Medicaid Plans Ranked Among “U.S. News / NCQA America’s Best Health Insurance Plans 2009-10”
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 7:47am | 171Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH), announced that U.S. News and World Report has ranked all of Molina’s eligible subsidiary Medicaid health plans in California, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah and Washington among “America’s Best Health Insurance Plans” in the magazine’s annual report measuring...
-
Molina Healthcare (MOH) of Texas Names Robert Hilliard, Jr., MD as Chief Medical Officer
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 7:01am | 85Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) announced that Robert Hilliard, Jr., MD has been named the chief medical officer of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Molina Healthcare of Texas, Inc. Dr. Hilliard will be responsible for oversight of the medical management functions of Molina Healthcare of Texas,...
-
ETFs To Watch On November 5, 2009 (XRT, XLF, SLX, FXY)
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 4:34am | 282Here's the ETF Professor's ETF Watchlist for Thursday November 5, 2009. If Qualcomm's earnings fail to lift the stock higher, and they very well may fail in the endeavor, take a look at the iShares Dow Jones US Technology ETF (NYSE: IYW). Cigna (NYSE: CI) reports earnings before the bell, so keep...
-
Wellcare Healthcare Plans Inc. (WCG) soars on resumption of Medicare Advantage drugs
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 1:49pm | 136WellCare Health Plans Inc. (NYSE: WCG) said on Wednesday that it would start marketing Medicare drug and Medicare Advantage programs in the next few days. It has received approval against most of the government's fraud sanctions, earlier sanctioned on WellCare Health Plans Inc. (WCG). WellCare...
-
Molina Healthcare (MOH) of California Names Richard Bock, MD as Chief Medical Office
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 7:01am | 104Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) announced that Richard Bock, M.D. has been promoted from medical director to chief medical officer of its wholly owned subsidiary, Molina Healthcare of California. Dr. Bock will be responsible for oversight of the medical management functions of Molina...
-
Jim Cramer Thinks That Downturn Won't Be Bigger Than 7% (PG, GIS, MCD, WLP)
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 4:25pm | 154CNBC's Mad Money Jim Cramer thinks it is time to sell, but there are still some stocks that will hold these levels. He thinks that investors should move the money from cyclical stocks like Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) to defensive stocks like Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), General Mills (NYSE:...
-
Top NYSE Financial Stocks To Consider (JPM, BAC, BLK,AB, ITG, CSH, HUM, IVG, JNS, RJF, SF)
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 2:29pm | 336In the recent down turn of US stocks, the most affected were the Financial Stocks. Financial Components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) fell 2% on early trading contributing to losses to the index. Although, the drop in prices can be...
-
Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (AET, HGSI, KBR, TOL, WYN)
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:13pm | 149Aetna Inc. (Public, NYSE: AET) JP Morgan upgrades AET from Neutral to Overweight. AET is now trading at $26.62, 0.02% down. The stock has recovered over 80% from its 52-week low of %14.21. Human Genome Sciences (Public, NASDAQ: HGSI) JP Morgan also upgraded HGSI to Overweight from Neutral, and...
-
Top 5 Stocks with Highest Free Cash Flow (CB, WLP, PFG)
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 7:08am | 163Below are interesting stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ with highest free cash flow. The Chubb Corporation (NYSE: CB) has the free cash flow of 3.14 billion and the PEG ratio of 0.98. Argus upgraded CB from “hold” to “buy.” WellPoint Inc (NYSE: WLP) has the free cash flow of 3.05 billion and the PEG...
-
AMERIGROUP (AGP) Reports Q3 Results
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:51am | 105AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) announced that net income for the third quarter of 2009 was $22.5M, or $0.43 per diluted share, versus $37.9M, or $0.71 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2008. Third quarter earnings are in line with the preliminary earnings range that the Company...
-
Health Net Inc (NYSE:HNT) Among Top Volume Gainers Today
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:36pm | 63Health Net Inc (HNT) is gaining high volume today, up 12.6%. One of the stocks with narrowing option contract spreads and high liquidity. HNT is looking great technically and it favors the long side, I would only pick In The Money call options for very short term objectives until at least the HNT...
-
Stocks Expected To Pop (MU, SLM, MCO, CEPH, GNW, MI, CMCSA, WLP, GME, WFR, STT, NOVL, PTV, AMGN)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 2:34pm | 241According CNBC.com, their analysts looked at Analyst Price Targets for S&P500 companies in September and identified the top 20 companies. Among these companies, 6 of the top 10 are already showing promising results. On that list, Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) has the widest price range of $4.00...
-
Joe Terranova Would Long CI, Karen Finerman Likes UNH, AET, WLP
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 6:20pm | 114CNBC's Fast Money Joe Terranova and Karen Finerman spoke about public health option and the health care companies that could be good to buy. Joe Terranova would long Cigna (NYSE: CI) because he thinks that health care is under-invested. Karen Finerman said that she owns call options on Aetna (NYSE...
-
5 Stocks with Highest Net Income and PEG (GS, WFC, UNH)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 12:37pm | 176Below are interesting stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ with the highest net income. Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) generated a net income of $9.91 billion in FY08. GS has a PEG ratio of 0.79. JMP Securities upgraded GS from “market perform” to “market outperform.” Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE...