Healthcare Sector

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Healthcare Sector
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What Does Healthcare Sector Mean?

• A category of stocks relating to medical and
  healthcare goods or services

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• hospital management firms
• health maintenance organizations (HMOs)
• biotechnology and a variety of medical products

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defensive

• products and services are essential
• Even during economic downturns, people will still
  require medical aid and medicine to overcome
  illness
• consistent demand for goods and services
• less sensitive to business cycle

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Investing

• the aging population and the baby boomers
• people living longer with chronic disease
• obesity and diabetes epidemics
• technological advances
• the global reach of disease
• personalized medicine 

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• a single-payer system (Medicare/U.S. government)
• expenditure as an increasing share of gross
  domestic product (GDP)
• the uninsured
• cost controls
• consumerism

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HGSI HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES INC

• Mkt cap 5.78B EPS -0.16
• Beta 5.37

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• Background
• BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus
• ZALBIN for chronic hepatitis C
• raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax

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• top-2010-healthcare-stocks

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• GILD 10.18
• ERSX 17.47
• CVS 10.96
• HEALTHCARE 0.28
• SP500 0.89

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