Express Scripts (ESRX): Today's Featured Health Services Winner

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Express Scripts (ESRX) pushed the Health Services industry higher today making it today's featured health services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, Express Scripts rose 75 cents (1.5%) to $52.24 on light volume. Throughout the day, two million shares of Express Scripts exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.1 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $51.53-$52.28 after having opened the day at $51.84 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $51.49. Other companies within the Health Services industry that increased today were: BG Medicine (BGMD), up 23%, Misonix (MSON), up 13.6%, Rockwell Medical (RMTI), up 12.2%, and CombiMatrix Corporation (CBMX), up 9%.

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Express Scripts Holding Company provides a range of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services in North America. Express Scripts has a market cap of $42.04 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 15.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 16 analysts that rate Express Scripts a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Express Scripts as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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