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barrons3	Even better for the bulls, as we go into 2010 we will have seen the high-water mark of what Wall Street views as radicalism in Congress. That means you can see earnings per share increase and multiples expand for Humana (HUM), WellPoint (WLP), Aetna (AET) and Cigna (CI).	Love	November 12, 2009
barrons3	The rhetoric generates uncertainty, explains Joe Terranova and as a result I think the health care space is under-invested. Personally, I'd play it with a long position in Cigna (CI).	Love	October 28, 2009
barrons3	Cigna and Aetna probably are the safest choices, because they get the lowest percentage of their revenue and profits from the two sectors most threatened by legislative reform: policies for individuals and small groups (meaning 50 or fewer people) and Medicare Advantage coverage, a privately administered alternative to traditional Medicare that covers 11 million seniors -- 25% of all Medicare participants. Cigna gets just 2% of its revenue from individual and small-group plans and Medicare Advantage, while Aetna gets 21%. Most of Aetna's business is with large companies, which either purchase coverage from the insurer or pay it to administer self-insurance programs. Cigna gets significant revenue from self-insurance plans, and it has sizable non-health-care businesses, including group life insurance and international operations.	Love	October 24, 2009
barrons3	I continue to believe that Wellpoint (WLP), UnitedHealth (UNH), Cigna (CI), Aetna (AET) and Humana (HUM) can be bought off this Senate shift.	Love	September 03, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	In an <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/p/_search/rmoney/jimcramerblog/10571020.html" target="_blank">Aug. 11 blog post</a>, Cramer wrote: "Even as Vince Farrell has correctly outlined the nutty House health care bill, it is obvious that the Senate will strike it down, so the managed care non-dip -- especially as Cigna filed to sell some securities last night -- makes a ton of sense to buy. <B>WellPoint's</B> moved a lot but it has an awful lot to gain from the "victory" that Obama's going to declare." And on <a href=" http://www.thestreet.com/story/10571161/1/cramers-stop-trading-citis-red-hot.html " target="_blank">"Stop Trading!" that day</a>, Cramer said that health care stocks such as Cigna, WellPoint and <B>UnitedHealth<B> "are doing well," which signaled that they wouldn't be hurt "nearly as badly as people thought." <I>-- Written by Rebecca Corvino in New York.</I>	Love	August 21, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"Stop Trading," Aug. 11: Health care stocks such as UnitedHealth (UNH), Cigna (CI) and WellPoint (WLP) "are doing well," said Cramer, which is a signal that they are "not going to be hurt nearly as badly as people thought."	Love	August 12, 2009
barrons3	How could it suddenly dawn on holders of Cigna (CI), Aetna (AET), United Health (UNH) and Wellpoint (WLP) that they are PENOs instead of HMOs! That means Public Enemy No. 1, by the Anti-HMO-in-Chief Barack Obama. I have been telling people to sell these stocks endlessly because the president wants their business to be nonprofit, which is difficult if you are a public company.	Love	June 11, 2009
barrons3	He's destroying the margins of Aetna (AET) and Cigna (CI). These companies, particularly Humana, have this tremendous Medicare senior plans where they were just raking it in and were subsidized by the government.	Love	February 26, 2009
Forster	not good business model	Hate	February 19, 2009
barrons3	It's health care that is most unexpected: anti-Obama health care, like Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth (UNH) and Aetna (AET). These health care cost containers were supposed to be crushed by Obama because of their unfeeling, unthinking ways. The perspective Obama came in with would make you believe that the key issue for these companies is to ruin their margins. It also doesn't hurt that Tom Daschle got dinged, because he has a real socialist approach to medicine. With him out of the picture, the group has room to run.	Love	February 12, 2009
sc4cinc	RISK	Hate	November 11, 2008
pratomorone	because I own a lot	Love	September 24, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "That's one of the best in the group. They're buying back a lot of stock and I'd be a buyer."	Love	August 22, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "That's one of the best in the group. They're buying back a lot of stock and I'd be a buyer."	Love	August 12, 2008
sarah z	Managed-care provider Cigna Corp. said recently its board of directors increased the company's stock repurchase authority by $500 million. Cigna also announced it had repurchased 5.5 million shares for $220 million during the second quarter. The insurer has repurchased 6.7 million shares for $265 million so far this year. The company has about 275 million shares outstanding and about $565 million of stock repurchase authority available. The company also reaffirmed its full-year earnings-per-share guidance but lowered its expectations for medical membership growth and adjusted health care operating income. The insurer said it still expects adjusted earnings of $4.05 to $4.25 per share, but it said medical membership will grow by 1 percent instead of the previous range of 2 percent to 2.5 percent. The stock trades for 7.5x cash flow.	Love	August 06, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "That's one of the best in the group. They're buying back a lot of stock and I'd be a buyer."	Love	July 24, 2008
barrons2	I bought Cigna (CI), Humana (HUM) and Coventry (CVH) on Wednesday, Jenner says. I think all have the potential to be up at least 25% over the next 12 months.	Love	March 18, 2008
Norman Schultz	healthcare low pe	Love	January 21, 2008
Kimotee	Largest bank - value and dividend. Upside once the shakeout is over.	Love	November 26, 2007
gcam1929	LARGE TECH STOCK. DEEMED FAIRLY SAFE.	Love	November 24, 2007
Guest	Take a look at Medco (MHS) or Cigna (CI). Those aren't done going up and they have nothing to do with subprime.	Love	July 25, 2007
Big_Poppa	8/1/07	Love	July 15, 2007
EnoOnmai	reports 8/1	Love	July 13, 2007
ech77066	WHO KNOWS? BAD GUESS	Love	June 30, 2007
Guest	How about Cigna (CI), with a buyback so strong that the stock doesn't seem to get even a glancing blow?	Love	June 06, 2007
Guest	Cigna (CI) opened unchanged with a split? You know this market loves stock splits; go down and get some of that. It would have been up if the futures weren't down.	Love	June 05, 2007
stockerblog	1792	Love	June 05, 2007
Guest	Or take the case of Cigna (CI). Here's a company that is slowly going private. It rarely goes down a point or 2 because of that buyback. But you have your chance today. I would scoop that one up.	Love	May 31, 2007
oceanquest	Growth	Love	May 12, 2007
Guest	This is a pure buyback play. When you have a company retiring 19% of its shares a year, a company that is buying back $500 million a quarter and only has 93 million shares out there, the stock is a natural place to buy. I often see this stock looking great on down days, and it's all the company.	Love	May 09, 2007