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Rite-Aid's Q1 earnings spark sell-off that is no buying opportunity	Filed under: Earnings reports, Walgreen Co (WAG), CVS Corp (CVS), Rite Aid Corp (RAD)Rite-Aid (NYSE: RAD), a competitor of CVS (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), tanked Thursday. By the end of the trading session, the pharmacy's stock declined almost 23% on heavy volume. Yes, it was a horrible day in the market overall, but don't blame the market at large. Rite-Aid is simply a company to avoid, and its latest earnings data show why. According to the AP, Rite-Aid booked a loss of $0.20 per sh...	June 27, 2008
OCR: Is Omnicare Fit as a Fiddle?	My latest column is up at RealMoney. Omnicare (OCR) provides pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to a variety of health care providers. It also offers contract research services to drug manufacturers. Earnings have been a bit rocky, but free-cash-flow yield and other valuation metrics make this stock worth a checkup. The company’s primary competitor is PharMerica (PMC) , and it lists its peers as AmerisourceBergen (ABC) , Parexel (PRXL) , Pharmaceutical Product Development ...	June 23, 2008
Walgreen misses earnings expectations, but it's still good for the long-term	Filed under: Earnings reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Walgreen Co (WAG), CVS Corp (CVS), Rite Aid Corp (RAD)Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) reported sluggish Q3 numbers last week. Net sales increased a little under 10% to $15 billion. Net income increased a whopping two pennies to 58 cents per diluted share (the term "whopping" is used here sarcastically). According to this article, Walgreen met top-line expectations but missed the bottom-line call by a penny. Gross margin remained relatively stable, but the ne...	June 23, 2008
Walgreen, Kroger expected to report profit growth	Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Walgreen Co (WAG), Kroger Co (KR)Though the quarter is winding down, there are still earnings reports to come, including Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) and Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR). Both companies are expected to report profit growth this coming week. Walgreen is expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial to report third-quarter earnings of 59 cents per share, up 6.8% from the same period of last year, on revenue of $15.1 billion. The company has provide...	June 22, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Game Plan	Cramer advised investors to buy CVS Carmark (CVS) next week if Walgreen (WAG) reports a weak number. He also thinks Rite-Aid (RAD) will report a bad number which will be bullish for CVS. For Tuesday, Cramer said buy Darden (DRI) before it announces earnings. He said if the stock trades off on Monday buy it on the weakness. Nike is set to report earnings on Wednesday and Cramer thinks investors should buy the stock on any weakness ahead of the Beijing Olympics. He also favors Research In Motion (...	June 20, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Am I Diversified	The first caller’s stock portfolio had the following stocks: Agrium (AGU), Potash (POT), Apple (AAPL), Caterpillar (CAT) and Sohu.com (SOHU). Cramer said this portfolio has too much exposure to agriculture with POT and AGU. He said sell Agrium and pick up a healthcare or defense stock. The second caller had these stocks: JC Penney (JCP), Dow Chemical (DOW), Disney (DIS), EnerSys (ENS) and Foster Wheeler (FWLT). Cramer called this portfolio is diversified. The third caller had the following...	June 18, 2008
Why is CVS Buying $2 Billion of its Stock? (CVS, WAG, RAD)	CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) has announced that the company will buy back up to $2 Billion worth of common stock from time to time in the open markets during... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	May 21, 2008
Google Health: A Quick Hands-On Look	Now that Google Health has finally launched, I took a quick peek at it while Mark was taking notes at today’s Google Factory Tour presentation. It’s been a long time coming, but at first glance it looks like it will be a strong competitor to existing personal health sites such as Microsoft’s HealthVault (which launched last October), Revolution Health, or Aetna’s SmartSource (via a partnership with Healthline). The big competition here is between Google Health and Micro...	May 19, 2008
Live: Google Health Launches At Factory Tour of Search	Update: Check out our first thoughts on Google Health. Google has invited the press to its headquarters in Mountain View today for some presentations on a variety of search-related projects. The so-called “Factory Tour of Search” event will proceed until about 1pm PT today. The agenda (shown in full at the bottom of this post) includes overview presentations about Google’s various search properties, its local search services, and search quality. Later on we will also hear more...	May 19, 2008
Troubles for Wal-Mart's in-store health clinics	Filed under: Consumer experience, Wal-Mart (WMT)Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) made a splash in recent years by opening health clinics in its Supercenter locations to give those who could not afford medical insurance a cheap way to get medical services. As always, though, the retailer hoped that those who visited in-store clinics would hang around and do some shopping as well. In 2008, retail clinics have seemed to shut their doors in states like New York, Nevada and Indiana. Overall, 69 cli...	May 14, 2008

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