St Jude Medical Inc. (STJ): Today's Featured Health Services Winner

St Jude Medical (STJ) pushed the Health Services industry higher today making it today's featured health services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.7%. By the end of trading, St Jude Medical rose $1.27 (3.4%) to $39.23 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 5.3 million shares of St Jude Medical exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.5 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $38.01-$39.77 after having opened the day at $38.55 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $37.96. Other companies within the Health Services industry that increased today were: Graymark Healthcare (GRMH), up 38.3%, CHINA NUOKANG BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL (NKBP), up 26.5%, Fonar Corporation (FONR), up 15.9%, and Novadaq Technologies (NVDQ), up 9.9%.

St. Jude Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes cardiovascular and implantable neurostimulation medical devices worldwide. It operates in four segments: Cardiac Rhythm Management, Cardiovascular, Atrial Fibrillation, and Neuromodulation. St Jude Medical has a market cap of $11.88 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.3, equal to the average health services industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate St Jude Medical a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 14 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates St Jude Medical as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the negative front, Amedisys (AMED), down 21.3%, BG Medicine (BGMD), down 14.9%, Escalon Medical Corporation (ESMC), down 13.6%, and Tornier B.V (TRNX), down 11.5%, were all losers within the health services industry with Medtronic (MDT) being today's health services industry loser.

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