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Health Net (HNT) Stock Research Report
Health Net Competitors
Aetna (AET) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (1)
Molina Healthcare (MOH) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (0)
Wellcare (WCG) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (0)
Triple-S (GTS) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (0)
Healthspring (HS) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (0)
Amerigroup (AGP) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (0)
WellPoint (WLP) Stock Research, Investment News & SWOT Analysis (0)
Health Net Highlights
Health Net, Inc., founded in 1985, provides managed health care services through a variety of health plans and managed care plans including Medicare and Medicaid. The company offers many health care services including ambulatory and outpatient physician care, hospital care, pharmacy services, behavioral health, and ancillary diagnostic and therapeutic services. In addition, it owns health and life insurance companies, and provides health care related services to the U.S. Department of Defense. Health Net is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
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USA Country & Currency Research Report ► (edit / improve) The United States (US) has a highly productive, capitalist economy and is the largest and most diverse market in the world. USA's Fundamental Currency Analysis (short term investment): the US dollar (USD) has the potential to increase in value especially versus the Australian and Canadian dollar because of the significant potential of undervalued companies. USA's Value Investor Survey (short term investment): the economic environment is very favorable for long term economic growth due to high scores on economic freedom and economic diversity. USA's General Trading Partners: China, Japan, Mexico, and Canada are the top US trading partners, while the leading export and import are electrical machinery and vehicles, respectively. USA's Commodity Trading Partners: The US produces a significant amount of coal and wheat for use at home and as an export. However, the US consumes a larger amount of oil, which contributes to their trade deficit. SWOT Analysis of USA: The leading US strength is its entrepreneurial culture, while the main weakness is high health care cost. Energy independence has the opportunity to propel growth, while the major threat is the housing crisis, which will lower growth. USA's Currency Trading Strategy: An undervalued currency, high investment flow potential and favorable business environment lead to a positive outlook for US investments, which will also benefit from positive international actions. For our entire list of country & currency analysis, see the Country & Currency Analysis home page.
Health Net (HNT) News
Health Net Wins Award in 2010 National Mature Media Awards Program 1283436890|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
UNIVERSAL AMERICAN HAS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF EFFICIENCY IN THE MANAGED HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY (UAM, WCG, MDF, HNT, HS) 1283429353|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Health Net Strives to Exceed $75,000 Goal Through Annual Golf Classic Despite Hard Economic Times 1283344304|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Highest Ranking in the Best Value Category for a Company in the Managed Health Care Industry Goes to Health Net! (HNT, MOH, WCG, ASGR, UAM) 1283333219|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Daily Options Trading for Health Net (HNT) 1283293661|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Trading Update for Health Net (HNT) 1283206802|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Daniel Loeb Publishes Quarterly Letter; Top Holdings: TDG, ACL, CIT, PHH, HNT, ARG 1283045452|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Health Net, Inc. Mourns the Death of Thomas T. Farley, a Member of Its Board of Directors 1282825912|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Top 5 Companies in the Managed Health Care Industry With the Best Relative Performance (HS, HNT, CVH, UNH, WLP) 1282817614|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
HEALTH NET INC FILES (8-K) Disclosing Regulation FD Disclosure 1282817493|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Health Care Industry Analysis, Research & Ratios ► (edit / improve)
Industry Analysis evaluates the major industry characteristics that affect investments. Company specific factors drive the performance of individual companies, but macro-economic factors can affect the performance, stock prices, growth rates, and chart movements of any stock, currency, or commodity. All stock traders should review industry research before trading.
Warren Buffett Quote: "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." No matter the quality of your business, industry economics is an important factor in any value investing decision.
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| Description: The health care industry depends on the care of health-related services by professionals for the benefit of patients. Medical device markers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical drug developers and government institutions are major participants in the treatment of sick, injured and disabled patients (see full health care description: competitors, industry ratios, best stocks, market leaders, aggregate SWOT Analysis, and streaming industry news).
Profit Analysis: The best way to profit from health care stock investments is to find the most undervalued investments (Wall Street and Main Street buy ratings) during economic recessions. Those investments should be undervalued (see Wall Street on left side), and have high Main Street Common Sense investment ratings (see Main Street on right side). When an economic recovery occurs, different sectors of health care stocks will perform better or worse than the general stock market. Consumers generally maintain health care spending during recessions, but don't increase purchases during economic expansions. Eventually other stock investments become overvalued, because profits and stock prices increase past their fair values. During the last stages of an economic business cycle, just before a recession, it is best to buy health care stocks if you must invest in the stock market, because they are the least risky equity investments in a declining stock market. As investors search for safe (less risky) stock investments, they tend to buy health care stocks. Expensive (overvalued) stocks with low Main Street Common Sense ratings should be sold at any time to invest in better stocks. Two buys ratings are the best and two sell ratings are the worst possible stock investments. Biotech stocks behave very differently from other health care stocks. Before drugs companies become profitable, they are constantly worried about their cash balance. For unprofitable biotechnology companies, the ability to raise cash is easiest during positive economic conditions, but difficult during recessions; the stock price rises and falls accordingly to the cash raising environment and drug pipeline potential. It is generally unwise to invest in biotechnology companies, because much of what drives the stock price is speculation about the drug pipeline, test results and government intervention. Unless the biotechnology is large and profitable and you have extensive industry experience (10 plus years), the only way to make a non-speculative investment in biotechnology is if you have insider information, which is illegal (see Martha Stewart). Warren Buffett does not own biotechnology companies for these specific reasons. Trading Strategy: Health Care stocks tend to be less sensitive to economic changes. During economic recessions, consumers tend to decrease discretionary expenses to save money, but they can not decrease purchases of health care, because it is needed for everyday living. Spending on health care generally remains constant, because investors maintain their health care coverage, which helps health care stock prices. Health care insurance and related industries could decline during recessions, because unemployed workers decrease health care coverage, which decreases revenue to those stocks. During economic recoveries, health care stock prices generally under perform the stock market, because revenue and profit growth is faster in companies, which declined the most during the proceeding recession. Health care insurance stock prices may increase as more employees receive health care benefits. During longer economic expansions, health care investments tend to growth at the same rate as the general stock market. Government intervention is another important factor in health care investments, since government spending in health care is a very large portion of overall health care spending. When the government changes spending plans, different sub-sectors in the industry are significantly affected. To account for this added risk, Wikiwealth.com makes conservative assumptions about revenue, profits and risk. Biotechnology companies are significantly impacted by specific drugs in their pipeline. If a drug passes different stages along the road to commercial use, then the drug company's stock price increases; the reverse is also true.
1 WikiWealth only uses the largest 30 companies in each industry for the basis of these financial measures. Each statistic is the market weighted average of the 30 companies. 2 Investment potential (margin of safety) is a weighted average of the discounted cash flow (DCF), the enterprise value (EV) market multiple, and the Warren Buffett investment methods. |
Leveraged ETF Funds 2x S&P Health Care ETF (RHM) US ETF Funds First Trust Health Care (FXH) Non - US ETF Funds Emerging Healthcare (EHK) Analysis: Genzyme units attract interest, what about Sanofi? - Reuters 1283426102|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover RemitDATA Earns Spot on Fourth Annual Inc. 5000 List - PR Newswire (press release) 1283446830|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Growth slows in health spending - USA Today 1283384678|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Shares of Molina Healthcare Rank the Highest in terms of Relative Performance ... - Comtex Smartrend 1283421529|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Don't cover up large-scale adverse events - FierceHealthcare 1283434591|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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WACC Discount Rate Analysis - Health Net ► Experiment with HNT's Analysis ►
How does this work? The WACC Discount Rate (weighted average cost of capital) is used to determine business risk. WikiWealth's average WACC calculation increases stability and accuracy. WACC Formula = Cost of Equity (CAPM) * Common Equity + (Cost of Debt) * Total Debt. Stock Analyst: Click above to experiment with this analytical model (see tutorial for help).
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Industry WACC = industry weight average cost of capital calculation; industry D/E = debt / equity ratio; Debt / Capital = company debt divided by company capital (debt + equity) ratio. WAC (debt) = weight average cost of debt. CAPM = capital asset pricing model. Equity / Capital = company equity divided by company capital (debt + equity) ratio. WAC (equity) = weight average cost of equity.
Discounted Cash Flow Analysis - Health Net ► Experiment with HNT's Analysis ►
How does this work? The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) investment analysis computes a value based on the present value of all future cash flows generated by the business. The DCF incorporates information from financial news and share data to stock price and growth rates. Stock Analyst: Click above to experiment with this analytical model (see tutorial for help).
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Long Explanation of Abbreviated Words
COGS = Cost of Goods Sold. Operating exp = Operating expense. SG&A (Op Ex) = Sales, growth and administrative (operating expenses). EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. D&A (Op) = depreciation and amortization (operating expenses). EBIT = earnings before interest and taxes. NOPAT = net operating profits after taxes. CapEx: Capital expenditures. WC = Working capital. Lt Grth = Long term growth rate.
Comparative Value Multiple Analysis - Health Net ► Experiment with HNT's Analysis ►
How does this work? The Comparative Investment Analysis determines the value of a company by comparing their financial ratios, prices, growth rates, margins, etc. to those of relevant peer groups. Combine with news, charts and other stock research to form a complete. Stock Analyst: Click above to experiment with this analytical model (see tutorial for help).
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Long Explanation of Abbreviated Words
Top Row: EBITDA margin = earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization margin; EBIT margin= earnings before interest and taxes margin. Middle Row: EV = Enterprise Value.
Warren Buffett Intrinsic Value Analysis - Health Net ► Experiment with HNT's Analysis ►
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Long Explanation of Abbreviated Words
Buffett Intrinsic Value Calc = Warren Buffett intrinsic value calculation. FCF = free cash flow. RFR = risk free rate. EV = Enterprise value. Calc = calculation. Inv = Inventory. EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBIT = Earnings before interest, and taxes. NOPAT = Net operating profits after taxes. D&A = depreciation and amortization.
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