Healthcare: Top Stocks That Are Crushing The Market in 2017
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Here's why Exelixis, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Kite Pharma, Exact Sciences, and Portola Pharmaceuticals are up more than 50% in the first two months of 2017.
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| 0:14.6 | fool. Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector |
| 0:20.8 | of the stock market every day. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your health care show host Christine Hargis, sitting here in beautiful Alexandria, Virginia, |
| 0:27.4 | pre-recording this episode on March 6th, which is Monday, |
| 0:31.0 | for release on the usual health care Wednesday March 8th. I am happy to |
| 0:35.4 | welcome to the show Todd Campbell who's calling in from New Hampshire. |
| 0:38.5 | All credit... Hi Christine. Hey Todd, how are you? I'm doing great. I mean, I'm looking forward to talk about a bunch of stocks. I wish I bought on December 31st. |
| 0:47.0 | Yes, so I was actually just about to give you complete credit for today's show episode idea and I'll just completely hand it |
| 0:55.6 | over to you for an introduction. Sure I figure you know we're just now getting into |
| 1:01.5 | the third month of the year. |
| 1:03.2 | It's the perfect time to sort of look back and say, okay, |
| 1:06.2 | what's working? |
| 1:07.4 | And, you know, obviously you don't buy anything just because the stock happens to be up, right? |
| 1:13.6 | But what I've oftentimes found is that if you go and every once in a while |
| 1:17.9 | check and see what have been top performers, |
| 1:20.4 | sometimes you find a good story to research a little bit more and potentially you |
| 1:25.3 | know either add to a watch list or tuck into your portfolio after you've done that |
| 1:29.7 | homework so what I want to do today was do a screen looking for, we'll call it investment-worthy health care stocks that have been big returners so far a year to date. |
| 1:42.0 | And to do that, I simply just said, okay, let's look for |
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