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Thursday, May 23, 12:45 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND +2.5%) rallies for a second day on the back of Susquehanna's upgrade to Positive yesterday. The firm says the stock should continue to trade higher as the company exits its underperforming nursing care centers and free cash flow continues to rise. Comment! [Healthcare, On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 8:24 AM Kindred Healthcare (KND) +2.25% premarket after getting an upgrade to Positive from Neutral at Susquehanna. The shares are up ~20% so far this month after the company beat earnings on May 1. Comment! [Healthcare, On the Move]
Thursday, May 2, 5:55 AM Kindred Healthcare (KND): Q1 EPS of $0.49 beats by $0.12. Revenue of $1.55B beats by $0.03B. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Healthcare]
Tuesday, April 16, 5:48 PM Amgen (AMGN) has agreed to to pay $24.9M to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to long-term care pharmacy providers to entice them to use its Aranesp anemia drug instead of a rival medicine. The DoJ claims the payments were made to Omnicare (OCR), PharMerica (PMC) and Kindred Healthcare (KND) in return for implementing "therapeutic interchange" programs that were designed to switch Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries from a competitor drug to AMGN's Aranesp. Comment! [Healthcare]
Monday, February 25, 6:04 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND): Q4 EPS of $0.46 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $1.55B (+2% Y/Y) misses by $20M. Shares -1.8% AH. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Healthcare, On the Move]
Monday, January 7, 5:51 PM Kinded Healthcare (KND) lowers its FY13 guidance as a result of certain Medicare reimbursement changes included in the recently enacted American Taxpayer Relief Act. The company now expects FY13 earnings to come in between $1.10 - $1.30 per share, below previous EPS estimates of $1.20 - $1.40, on revenues of approximately $5.9B. Shares -1.8% AH. Comment! [Healthcare, Earnings, On the Move]
Monday, December 17, 2012, 5:31 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND) acquires Homecare Advantage for approximately $2M in cash. Homecare Advantage is a provider of home health services which operates one location in the Los Angeles market and provides services in Los Angeles and Orange counties, and generates annualized revenues of approximately $2.5M. Comment! [Healthcare, M&A]
Monday, October 29, 2012, 4:33 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND): Q3 EPS of $0.15 misses by $0.11. Revenue of $1.5B (+1% Y/Y) misses by $30M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Healthcare]
Thursday, August 2, 2012, 5:54 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND): Q2 EPS of $0.41 beats by $0.04. Revenue of $1.5B (+18.8% Y/Y). (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Healthcare]
Monday, July 2, 2012, 5:28 PM Health care stocks had a mixed run after last week's monumental Supreme Court decision. Despite the run-up in select names, CRT Capital's Sheryl Skolnick thinks any upside to the decision is going to be short lived. Any benefits coming from less bad debt are likely to be offset by slower reimbursement growth and fiscal belt-tightening. Besides, the law's major provisions won't kick in until 2014, and Republicans have vowed to repeal the law the first chance they get. 1 Comment [Healthcare]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6:15 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND): Q1 EPS of $0.40 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $1.58B (+32.5% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Healthcare]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 9:06 AM Premarket gainers: GEOI +21%. KND +17%. CDXS +9%. AAPL +9%. S +8%. TQNT +8%. JNY +6%. DAN +6%. RFMD +6%. GLW +5%. MOS +5%. ARMH +5%. MT +5%. BRCM +5%. NBR +4%. CLWR +4%. ALU +4%. FTNT +4%. STM +4%. POT +4%. HOG +4%. BBVA +4%. TS +3%. NOK +3%. STD +3%. TEF +3%. VMED +3%. IGT +3%.
Losers: ICON -14%. BIDU -6%. GSK -3%. Comment! [On the Move]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 8:38 AM The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirms a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for inpatient stays at long-term care hospitals. Jefferies upgrades Kindred Healthcare to Buy based on the "better than expected" rule. KND +20.5%, SEM +7% premarket. Comment! [Healthcare, On the Move]
Friday, March 30, 2012, 2:03 PM Kindred Healthcare (KND -3%) and Select Medical (SEM -3.5%) slump after Susquehanna cut the health-facility operators to Neutral earlier this morning. The firm sees the stocks remaining range-bound until there is greater clarity on potential Medicare reimbursement challenges facing the companies. Wells Fargo also cut both companies to Outperform as well. Comment! [Healthcare, On the Move]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 12:37 PM Shares of Kindred Healthcare (KND -6.4%) trade lower after Jefferies tags the company with a lower price target of $11. Analysts say that although recent contract wins strengthen Kindred's government relations, they will only add pennies to earnings per share. Comment! [On the Move, Healthcare]
Monday, February 27, 2012, 2:08 PM Ventas (VTR -0.2%) lags the overall market after being cut to Neutral from Buy at UBS, following the announcement that Kindred Healthcare (KND) does not plan to renew its majority of lease bundles expiring in 2013 and the uncertainty regarding its remaining lease agreements expiring in 2015. Comment! [Healthcare]

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