Industry Focus - Healthcare: 12.17.2014
Industry Focus
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🗓️ 17 December 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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In this week's industry focus, our analysts discuss their favorite of the successful 2014 healthcare large cap stocks
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| 0:00.0 | The best performing large-kept health care stocks of 2014 and what to expect for 2015. |
| 0:05.0 | This is industry focus. Hi Fools, Health Care Analysts, Michael Douglas here with contributor Todd Campbell. |
| 0:16.2 | Todd, I have got to say I really appreciate your choice in Navy Blue Sweater today. For those who are listening Todd and I appear to be wearing what is very close to the same sweater. |
| 0:27.5 | So I applaud you, sir. |
| 0:29.0 | It's a Tuesday. Of course it's Navy Blue Sweater Day. |
| 0:32.0 | Maybe we should make that a thing from now on. |
| 0:34.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:35.3 | Maybe that's the plan. |
| 0:37.8 | So we're talking today about the large cap health care stocks |
| 0:41.3 | that have returned to the most in 2014 and kind of what folks can expect in 2015. |
| 0:45.6 | In fact we'll even talk about what our favorite Pixar for 2015 out of that bunch. |
| 0:49.4 | But let's start with just a couple that I found really surprising on that list. Number seven, Sentine Corporation. |
| 0:56.6 | This is a, it's an insurer. We don't usually see huge price returns to insurers. What's the story here, |
| 1:02.0 | Todd? Well, it really comes down to |
| 1:04.8 | Medicaid expansion. I mean after the Supreme Court said that states had to opt in to |
| 1:10.8 | expand Medicaid to more people. |
| 1:13.2 | A lot of people thought, hey, what's really the upside here for these private Medicaid insurers? |
| 1:18.4 | And that's what Zendin does. |
| 1:20.4 | So I think that the fact that because you know 25 states embraced it this past year |
| 1:27.1 | and millions of more people have signed up for Medicaid coverage 17 investors have obviously become much more enthusiastic. |
| 1:37.0 | And for good reason, I mean, for every person that signs up, the way that the contracts are |
| 1:41.9 | negotiated with the states, they get profit drops immediately |
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