McKesson Inc. (MCK): Today's Featured Wholesale Laggard
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) pushed the Wholesale industry lower today making it today's featured Wholesale laggard. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, McKesson fell $1.59 (-1.2%) to $127.91 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1,740,586 shares of McKesson exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 972,400 shares. The stock ranged in price between $127.45-$129.72 after having opened the day at $129.11 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $129.50. Other companies within the Wholesale industry that declined today were:
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McKesson Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, delivers pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and health care information technologies to the healthcare industry primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, McKesson Distribution Solutions and McKesson Technology Solutions. McKesson has a market cap of $30.0 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 35.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate McKesson a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
McKesson
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full McKesson Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 3.9% and
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