Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (TMO): Today's Featured Health Services Winner

Thermo Fisher Scientific was a winner within the health services industry, rising $1.17 (1.3%) to $88.96 on light volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

(

TMO

) pushed the Health Services industry higher today making it today's featured health services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, Thermo Fisher Scientific rose $1.17 (1.3%) to $88.96 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1,761,843 shares of Thermo Fisher Scientific exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,406,300 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $87.84-$88.99 after having opened the day at $87.85 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $87.79. Other companies within the Health Services industry that increased today were:

Stereotaxis

(

STXS

), up 21.5%,

Harvard Bioscience

(

HBIO

), up 8.2%,

UnitedHealth Group

(

UNH

), up 6.5% and

Alliance HealthCare Services

(

AIQ

), up 6.5%.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, manufacture, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. Thermo Fisher Scientific has a market cap of $31.4 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 37.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Thermo Fisher Scientific a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Thermo Fisher Scientific

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

On the negative front,

American Shared Hospital Services

(

AMS

), down 8.5%,

Spherix

(

SPEX

), down 7.7%,

Organovo Holdings

(

ONVO

), down 7.1% and

American Caresource Holdings

(

ANCI

), down 5.2% , were all laggards within the health services industry with

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings

(

LH

) being today's health services industry laggard.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the health services industry could consider

Health Care Select Sector SPDR

(

XLV

) while those bearish on the health services industry could consider

ProShares Ultra Short Health Care

(

RXD

).

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