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Analyst’s Handbook:Health Care

Yardeni Research, Inc.

October 22, 2012

Dr. Edward Yardeni516-972-7683

[email protected]

Mali Quintana480-664-1333

[email protected]

Please visit our sites atwww.yardeni.comblog.yardeni.com

thinking outside the box

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Table Of Contents Table Of ContentsTable Of Contents

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S&P 500 Health Care 1S&P 500 Health Care (cont) 2S&P 400: Health Care 3S&P 400 Health Care (cont) 4Health Care: S&P Sector and Cap, Year-to-Date 5-6Health Care Sector 7-8Relative Earnings & P/E: Health Care 9-10Profit Margin 11Earnings Growth 12Earnings Growth Spreads 13Pricing 14-15

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S&P 500 HEALTH CARE FACILITIES(THC)

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S&P 500 HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTORS(ABC CAH MCK PDCO)

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S&P 500 HEALTH CARE SERVICES(DGX DVA ESRX LH MHS)

- S&P 500 Health Care -

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S&P 500 PHARMACEUTICALS_____________________________ABT AGN BMY BRL FRX JNJ LLYMRK MYL PFE SGP WPI WYE

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- S&P 500 Health Care (cont) -

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S&P 400 HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT_______________________________BEC CYTC EW EYE HB IMDC ISRG STEVAR VARI

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S&P 400 HEALTH CARE FACILITIES______________________________CYH LPNT TRI UHS WOOF

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S&P 400 HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTORS___________________________________HSIC

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S&P 400 HEALTH CARE SERVICES______________________________AHG CVD LNCR OCR PPDI

- S&P 400: Health Care -

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S&P 400 PHARMACEUTICALS_________________________MRX PRGO PRX SEPR VRX

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S&P 400 MANAGED HEALTH CARE______________________________HNT

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- Health Care: S&P Sector and Cap, Year-to-Date -

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S&P 500 HEALTH CARE INDEX*

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S&P 500 HEALTH CARE OPERATING EARNINGS PER SHARE(analysts’ average forecasts, ratio scale)

Consensus Forecasts__________________

Annual Estimates

12-Month Forward*

Figure 8.

- Health Care Sector -

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* Price divided by 12-month forward consensus expected operating earnings per share using mid-month data.** Sector or industry forward P/E relative to S&P 500 forward P/E.

Source: Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

S&P 500 HEALTH CARE VALUATION

Forward P/E*

Relative P/E**

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S&P 500 HEALTH CARE NET EARNINGS REVISIONS*

Figure 10.

- Health Care Sector -

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- Relative Earnings & P/E: Health Care -

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- Relative Earnings & P/E: Health Care -

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Health Care Sector (9.0)

Biotechnology (29.3)

Health Care Equipment (17.6)

Managed Health Care (4.6)

Source: Standard & Poor’s Corporation, Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, and Haver Analytics.

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Health Care Distributors (1.2)

Source: Standard & Poor’s Corporation, Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, and Haver Analytics.

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- Profit Margin -

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* Short-term earnings growth: 12-month forward consensus expected earnings growth. Long-term earnings growth: 5-year forward consensus expected earnings growth.Source: Thomson Financial.

- Earnings Growth -

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Figure 20.

- Pricing -

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- Pricing -

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