Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC): Today's Featured Health Services Laggard

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Tenet Healthcare (THC) pushed the Health Services industry lower today making it today's featured Health Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Tenet Healthcare fell 12 cents (-1.9%) to $6.28 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 11.9 million shares of Tenet Healthcare exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $6.03-$6.33 after having opened the day at $6.30 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $6.40. Other companies within the Health Services industry that declined today were: NuVasive (NUVA), down 32.9%, Globus Medical Inc Class A (GMED), down 7.3%, MAKO Surgical Corporation (MAKO), down 6.9%, and Thermogenesis Corporation (KOOL), down 5.9%.

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Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health care services company, owns and operates acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and related health care facilities in the United States. Tenet Healthcare has a market cap of $2.69 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 49.7, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 25.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Tenet Healthcare a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tenet Healthcare as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.

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On the positive front, Escalon Medical Corporation (ESMC), up 151.3%, Electromed (ELMD), up 13.5%, ZELTIQ Aesthetics (ZLTQ), up 7.3%, and Arrhythmia Research Technology (HRT), up 6.7%, were all gainers within the health services industry with St Jude Medical (STJ) being today's featured health services industry leader.

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