Health Care REIT lifts quarterly dividend to 68 cents (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Health Care REIT lifts quarterly dividend to 68 cents (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Health Care REIT Inc. announced it raised its quarterly dividend by 2 cents, or 3 percent, to 68 cents per share. The company, which invests in senior housing and health care real estate, said it will pay the dividend May 20 to shareholders of record as of May 2.
Coventry Health profit up 3 percent (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Insurer Coventry Health Care Inc posted a 3 percent first-quarter profit increase on Friday, matching Wall Street estimates, helped by higher membership.
Closing glance: health care equipment and supply stocks (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of health care equipment and supply companies ended mixed Friday. Varian Medical Systems Inc. said its first-quarter profit topped Wall Street’s estimates, but investors grappled with a consumer sentiment reading that fell to its lowest level since the early 1980s.
Upgrades, Q1 Surprises Liven Up Health Care (Investor’s Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
A slew of analyst revisions and upgrades in the past week has breathed new life into health care providers — many of which have been flat-lining this year.
Health Net-Maxxis racer Frank Pipp’s power output in Friday’s stage 5 of the Tour de Georgia. (Velo News)
Frank Overton, who is Health Net-Maxxis rider Frank Pipp’s coach, says he has a simple recipe if you want to duplicate the 4,520 kJ’s that Pipp put out in Friday’s 133-mile stage 5 of the Tour de Georgia. "Here s what you need to do," Overton said. "For the first 75 minutes go flat out and rock 333 watts or about 88 percent of your threshold power over challenging, variable terrain. After that …