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Biotech In The Earnings Spotlight: Amgen, Celgene, Gilead Sciences
Sunday, July 24, 2016 - 4:03pm | 873Three leading biotech companies will step into the earnings spotlight this week. Consensus forecasts from Wall Street analysts call for earnings growth from just two of them. And only one of them has topped estimates by double-digits in recent quarters. While the biotechnology industry has had a...
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Barron's Recap: Airline Stocks Ready To Soar
Sunday, June 21, 2015 - 7:13pm | 913This weekend in Barron's online: airline stocks ready to take off, the 50 best annuities in America, mega vacations of the super wealthy, as well as the prospects for Merck, Nintendo, the Bio-Reference Labs buyout and more. Cover Story "Airline Stocks Could Soar Up to 50% in a Year...
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Barron's Recap: America's Top Financial Advisors
Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 1:38pm | 788This weekend in Barron's online: the best financial advisors state-by-state, the Nasdaq at 5,000, as well as the prospects for Apple, HCA, the E.W. Scripps-Journal Communications merger and more. Cover Story "Top 1,200 Financial Advisors for 2015" by Steve Garmhausen. Barron's exclusive state-by-...
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Barron's Recap (4/28/12): Can the Dow Stay Relevant?
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:21am | 1018This weekend in Barron's online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is overdue for a makeover, and the prospects for eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Oracle. Cover Story "Shake Up the Dow!" by Andrew Bary. Barron's cover story this week suggests that the Dow Jones Industrial Average risks...
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St. Jude, Novo Nordisk and Other Health Care Stocks Worth a Look Now
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 7:20am | 1030While the fate of the 2010 health care reform law may rest in the hands of the Supreme Court, the nation's focus on health care has returned for the moment. For investors, the following health care picks all pay a dividend and have seen double-digit percentage growth in their share price since the...
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Oppenheimer Maintains Outperform on HCA
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 7:55am | 136Oppenheimer is out with its report today on HCA (NYSE: HCA), maintaining Outperform. In a note to clients, Oppenheimer writes, "The Colorado Health Foundation announced that its board has approved and signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to sell its 40% stake of the HCA-HealthONE LLC...
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J.P. Morgan Initiates Coverage On HCA With Overweight Rating
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 8:20am | 142According to J.P. Morgan, HCA (NYSE: HCA) coverage is initiated with an Overweight rating. J.P. Morgan reported that it initiates coverage of HCA Inc. (HCA) with an Overweight rating. “HCA is the largest U.S. hospital system by a considerable margin, operating over 160 hospitals with nearly 39,000...
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What to Ponder as the IPO Market Heats Up in 2011...
Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 10:37pm | 914Rather than focus on the turmoil in Egypt or rehash a number of economic statistics that imply the economic recovery remains a steady but slow one characterized by modest job growth near term, let's instead look at another facet of the market. No, I'm not talking about mergers and acquisitions,...