CVS Health stock has surged nearly 80% in a year while the quarterly dividend has sat frozen for ten straight quarters, raising a pointed question for income investors: is this pause a…
Trey Thoelcke Healthcare is quietly stealing the spotlight from mega cap tech in 2026, and two S&P 500 giants are trading at valuations that suggest the market has not caught on yet.
Jim Cramer used his July 9, 2026 CNBC Stop Trading segment to plant a flag on managed care, framing CVS Health (NYSE:CVS | CVS Price Prediction) as the consolidation winner in a…
The S&P 500 keeps climbing, up nearly 9% year to date, and yet a handful of large-cap dividend payers are trading like the bull market forgot they exist. That is exactly where…
The Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (CBOE:COWZ) is having a solid 2026, up 6.4% year to date and 14.81% over the past year through July 6. Yet a fund built expressly…
Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula ranks stocks on earnings yield and return on capital, but for retirees those two numbers can point straight toward disaster. Three stocks cleared the screen, and only one…
Healthcare has spent 2026 on the sidelines while the rest of the market does the heavy lifting. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLV) is down around 1% year to date…
Economist Justin Wolfers dropped a number on the Prof G Markets podcast that should reorganize how you think about the 2026 economy. Since Trump took office, healthcare and social services has added…
The Dow’s industrial-era anchors are quietly outpacing the broader market. Over the past year, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA: SPY) returned 24.37%, and the Dow tracker returned 20.22%. Three “old…
Health insurers are running higher in Thursday afternoon trading after a wave of bullish Wall Street analyst notes on the managed-care sector, centered on UnitedHealth, citing softer medical cost and utilization trends…
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) sit at the chokepoint of U.S. drug distribution. They negotiate rebates, design formularies, adjudicate claims, and steer patient adherence. Modern artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to compress each…
Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for CVS Health (NYSE:CVS | CVS Price Prediction) is $125.45, pointing to meaningful upside from where shares trade today. The stock closed at $86.86 on May…
Vandita Jadeja William Blair launched coverage of Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH | CAH Price Prediction) with an Outperform rating today, framing the pharma distributor as a durable franchise with specialty-led upside. The firm simultaneously initiated…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) just made a quiet move that could reshape how Americans access weight-loss drugs. On April 9, 2026, it announced that its pharmacy unit will stock…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the 2027 Medicare Advantage payment rate at a +2.48% net average increase, well above the +0.09% proposed in January and above the roughly…
