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Medical instruments, devices and facilities pummeled today from weight-loss drugs. Overreaction?
Health insurance stocks slide after UnitedHealth warns more surgeries will drive up medical costs
What are some good healthcare stocks to hold long-term?
For those wondering- I sold my Albertson's for a $134 profit, went margin to avoid good faith violation, and bought HCA which is reporting e
For those wondering- I sold my Albertson's for a $134 profit, went margin to avoid good faith violation, and bought HCA which is reporting earnings tomorrow.
Have analysts done a good enough job estimating S&P500 earnings growth in your opinion?
What is a typical ESPP fee for donating stocks to a 503c Charity? I'm trying to transfer HCA ESPP stock and being told it will cost $50.
Is $BSGM on the verge of a breakout? Golden cross formation, Collaboration with the MAYO CLINIC
Is $BSGM on the verge of a breakout? Golden cross formation, Collaboration with the MAYO CLINIC
So why would a company like $GOOG buy a company like $CLOV ???
Health care stocks UNH, HCA vs UHS, significant differences in PE, why?
HCA to the moon! 🚀 Don't have FOMO! HODL till your arms fall off! Am i doing this right?!
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While that is true, it seems extremely unlikely. HCA holds the current record of fines totaling $1.7 Billion for medicare fraud in the early 2000s and they didn't get shut out of medicare. Given that the guy who ran HCA then is now a Senator, I doubt anything more than a fine will be assessed.
It would be more constructive to comment a list of funeral homes to invest in - but I agree non the less. I can see HCA seeing a big short coming soon.
Puts on hospital groups (HCA, THC, UHS). The number of Medicaid patients they’re about to lose is gonna hit hard. Or worse yet they will still provide care and never be able to collect payment.
Sold all my HCA and moved the money to RYCEY. no dnd just vibes.
Obvious answer that nobody has said are in the HC sector…SYK, WST, HCA, CRL, MDT, prob some large cap pharma as well
HCA got caught for Medicare fraud and it didn’t stop them one bit
Medicare is health care insurance for older Americans (older than 65 I believe) and it's a government program. I'm not sure exactly how private insurers like UnitedHealth fit with medicare but if I remember correctly, Medicare recipients can sign up for coverage with a private company and Medicare / the government pays that company for treatment (possibly linked to those Medicare "Advantage" plans ? I can always ask my wife, she deals with stuff like this at work) Anyway, there are allegations that the company committed fraud. They got money from Medicare that they weren't entitled to by making false claims or something of the sort. So now they're headed to court. That case will probably take a while to sort out. Unless it was a fraud of massive proportions, I would not worry about the company going bankrupt though. Especially not under a Republican administration. They're far more worried about poor people buying soda with their food stamps than they are about massive corporation looting government programs. To give you an idea, US Senator Rick Scott (FL-R) used to be CEO of a company called HCA Healthcare. During his tenure, the company was convicted of defrauding Medicare and had to pay $1.7B It's still around. As for Rick Scott, he became governor of Florida, and then Senator. So really, nobody gives a shit. With crooks like Trump, Doctor Oz, RFK, and a bunch of others in charge of the government. UnitedHealth will probably get out of this with a slap on the wrist, provided they buy into somebody's meme coin or donate a few Ferraris to the Trump Presidential Library.
HCA got caught with medicare fraud years ago too, and look how good that blue chip is.
If they're anything like HCA, a medicare fraud conviction will be one of the best things to ever happen to their stock. And their CEO will soon be a senator.
Medicare fraud? You mean like when the HCA hospital chain was charged for $840 million worth of Medicare fraud? That was the highest at the time - it's much higher these days... Crime pays I guess. And SENATOR (and former governor) Rick Scott of FL, who headed HCA, wasn't held responsible! Cited the 5th amendment 55 times.
UNH is cheaper than HCA now
You think HUM or HCA will drop for their earnings too?
I think some companies are getting to oversold levels - clearly the tariff impacts won’t be known but I’ve added to positions in RPM, IEX, STZ, MRK, HUBB, APO, CHDN, HCA, EOG and BLK. That’s only 10k of my portfolio though. The rest is in bonds/short term treasuries. My thesis on anything above is that either A. It’s trading at a discount to the market or its competition; B. It has reached a 5 year low and is back to COVID level; C. Has a strong competitive advantage, will benefit from reshoring or has a buttload of cash.
Look who supported this presidency: Elon Musk: $290 million Timothy Mellon: $150 million Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment & Research: $106 million Linda McMahon of WWE: $16 million Hendricks Holding Co: $15 million Bigelow Aerospace: $14.1 million Laura & Issac Perlmutter Foundation: 12.4 million ABC Supply: $11 million Cantor Fitzgerald: $11 million Uline: $10 million Pratt Industries: $10 million British American Tabacco: $10 million Southern Waste Systems: $9 million Elliott Management: $7 million Andreesseen Horowitz: $7 million Viotl Inc: $6 million Timothy Dunn of CrownQuest: $5 million Jeff Sprecher of Intercontinental Exchange and Kelly Loeffler: $4.9 million Phil Ruffin, a business partner of Trump’s: $3.3 million Jimmy John Liautaud of Jimmy John’s: $3.1 million Geoffrey Palmer: $3 million Bernard Marcus, former CEO of Home Depot: $2.7 million Robert Johnson, owner of New York Jets: $2.7 million Winklevoss twins: $2.6 million Kenny Troutt of Excel Communications: $2.2 million George Bishop of GeoSouthern Energy: $2 million J. Joe Ricketts of TD Ameritrade: $2 million Chevron: $2 million Robinhood Markets: $2 million Andrew Beal of Beal Bank: $1.8 million Don Ahern of Xtreme Manufacturing: $1.1 million Roger Penske of Penske Corporation: $1.1 million Steve Wynn: $1.1 million Richard Kurtz of The Kamson Corporation: $1.1 million Antonio Gracias of Valor Equity Partners: $1 million Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital: $1 million OpenAI: $1 million ExxonMobil: $1 million Amazon: $1 million Meta: $1 million Uber: $1 million Boeing: $1 million Qualcomm: $1 million Coinbase: $1 million Kraken: $1 million Galaxy Digital Holdings: $1 million Crypto.com: $1 million Paradigm Operations: $1 million Goldman Sachs: $1 million Altria: $1 million Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America: $1 million Bayer: $1 million Johnson & Johnson: $1 million National Association of Manufacturers: $1 million AT&T: $1 million Comcast: $1 million Verizon: $1 million Carrier: $1 million Intuit: $1 million Coupang: $1 million GE Vernova: $500,000 QCells: $500,000 Ericsson: $500,000 CoreCivic: $500,000 GEO Group: $500,000 Abbott Laboratories: $500,000 PayPal: $250,000 HCA Healthcare: $250,000 Oklo Inc: $250,000 Coca Cola: $250,000 American Beverage Association: $250,000 Syngenta: $250,000 International Flavors & Fragrances: $250,000 Elevance Health: $150,000 American Clean Power Association: $100,000 Instacart: $100,000 Airbnb: $100,000 Socure: $100,000 Barnes & Thornburg LLP: $100,000
I think I m going to buy UHS, ACHC, CYH, HCA. They will have tons of patients due to economic collapse
Propose the following two portfolios: Portfolio 1 (mega tech) NVDA MSFT GOOG AAPL AMZN Portfolio 2 (share cannibals): AZO MUSA HCA AMP BKNG Buying one or the other today and not doing anything for 5 years....bets on which group outperforms?
I was thinking similarly about businesses that rely heavily on Medicaid like HCA
HCA, only because they suck (formerly worked for one) and hospitals rely on Medicaid reimbursements --- *a lot.*
Robinhood should announce a partnership with hospitals. We partner with HCA to sign up all newborns for a brokerage account Get them hooked early to the fun
HCA should be down a minimum of 5% right now. It’s going to hit the hospitals the hardest if there’s a crack down on waste, fraud, abuse by DOJ
HCA $320p 0DTE if you love money
# **TLDR** --- **Ticker:** $PNTG, $NHC, $ADUS, $ENSG, $HCA (and maybe $HCA) **Direction:** Up **Prognosis:** Buy **Reason:** Aging population + for-profit healthcare = $$$ in long-term care. These stocks are undervalued based on their operating income and strong balance sheets. **Nana's Feelings:** Extremely displeased about the prospect of her inheritance going to lawyers instead of her grandkids. **Bonus:** Fries are in the bag, chud.
# **TLDR** --- **Ticker:** $PNTG, $NHC, $ADUS, $ENSG, $HCA (and maybe $HCA) **Direction:** Up **Prognosis:** Buy **Reason:** Aging population + for-profit healthcare = $$$ in long-term care (LTC). These stocks are undervalued and poised for growth. Nana's not sharing her inheritance, so I'm getting it myself. **Bonus:** Author is already in these positions. (Check images in original post for details) **Extra Bonus:** The author's grandma's bagholding ways are funding their tendies.
Trash portfolio—- HCA? Really?
GD calls. PLTR calls already paid out. Puts on PFE, HCA, and UNH. GD makes these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_84_bomb
Netanyahu is meeting with Trump. Calls on LMT, RTX, and PLTR. Puts on UNH, PFE, and HCA.
On my night shifts (years ago), the entirety of the nursing/HCA staff were African or Filipino. Best past was they were leagues ahead of the UK trained nurses.
Oo, what strike a s date you looking at for HCA?
yeah bro I had some UNH and CVS call that blew up massively, going for some more on HCA
Yes, HCA is always been solid for me. It’s had a tough month or two just now but I do believe it’ll bounce back. I was just doing some portfolio management. I had too much percentage.
I had never heard of HCA today but it looks like it’s at the bottom of an ascending channel from a technical standpoint. A lot of people like SPY and QQQ because they contain a lot or all of these stocks listed above and many more. And the reason I would sell XRP is because it just rallied off the charts and with crypto being very technical responsive it seems like it has a lot of correcting to do. Amazon definitely hold for life and Tesla seems overvalued to me but speculation is high with trump in office. I like all the other picks though good value stocks
HCA during Trump was never a fun ride. I’ve sold 20% of it to fuel Tesla and Amazon but still holding long
HCA looks ready to take off 🚀 I’d sell 50% of NVDA for VOO or QQQ
I’ve done some of that with HCA in this current environment…. Putting that into Amazon / Tesla
congratulations on joining the market at a solid bull run. As long as you bought a company that anyone has heard of in june most people are up. amazon and google are solid choices for growth stocks most likely as they are dominating most every market. Only thing that would slow them down would be monopoly issues if pressed. Some tech is great (NVDA,TSLA), some finances are good (Discover, visa, paypal, BoA), never be wrong to just stick things in a S&P 500 tracker (voo, vti), can always add some air (AAL, JOBY) or healthcare (PZIFER, HCA). All are options, some may play better than others. Diversity usually wins in the long term.
Gotcha, so you’re just a dumb fuck? Let’s just kill every CEO of HCA or Sutter or Kaiser or Dignity or Tenet or whatever hospital nationwide. Idiot clown.
Woa. Thank you for the eye opening. I just started my new job at the end of my 32. I never had a job that offer 401K. Now my workplace, HCA, offers 1:1 match up 3% at beginning. I plan to retire around at 50-55 years of age. Reading your post gives me hope that I'm not too late because I have been wondering that am I too late. Thank you again.
What’s your risk tolerance? FOXO,HCA,TXRH
HCA had to repay 1.7 billion between 2003-2012 for Medicare fraud committed while Rick Scott was the CEO. He received a hefty payout and is enjoying a successful political career and is looking at a bigger role in the next Trump administration.
HCA call, then lambo bound 🚀
Guys, gals, fairly regarded, CALL HCA@440 1/17
I am a noob. Made a few hundred with spreads on HCA, XOM and CHWY.
HCA their moat is that they are swindling the government for money.
Besides the obvious like HCA, Intuitive, CVS…. A lot of genomic stocks have been crushed and will have moat if their therapeutic gets approved. An example would be CRISPR that has a cure for sickle cell. Only competitor is blue bird bio which will likely go under.
HCA. They’re the largest hospital chain in the country - it’s not easy to recreate a hospital chain with 186 hospitals. They have economy of scale. They’re also a cannibal, they’ve been buying back shares each year.
Certainly: JANX: Janux Therapeutics, Inc. (JANX) is showing strong bullish momentum, with the current price at $55.85, well above its 10-day SMA of $51.96 and 8-day EMA of $52.69, indicating a robust upward trend. The RSI values are nearing overbought levels, suggesting potential for a pullback, but the MACD histogram remains positive, supporting continued upward movement. Recent trading volumes have been variable, but the stock has consistently closed higher, reflecting strong buying interest. Given the broader market’s resilience, particularly in tech-heavy indices, JANX could benefit from sector rotation into biotech. For today’s session, consider entering around $55.50, with a first target at $57.00 and a second at $58.50, while setting a stop loss at $54.00 to manage downside risk. Confidence in reaching the first target is high due to strong technical indicators, while the second target carries moderate confidence given potential market volatility. Keep an eye on any sector-specific news that could impact sentiment. HCA: HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) is currently trading at $361.30, showing a significant downtrend over the past month, with the 14-day RSI at 32.3 indicating oversold conditions. The stock has broken below its key moving averages, with the 8-day EMA at $381.13 and the 20-day SMA at $392.83, suggesting continued bearish momentum. The MACD histogram is negative, reinforcing the downward pressure. Given the broader market’s resilience, HCA’s divergence suggests sector-specific challenges, possibly linked to healthcare policy uncertainties or earnings concerns. For today’s session, consider shorting HCA around $362, targeting $355 as the first price target and $350 as the second, with a stop loss at $365. Confidence in reaching the first target is high due to strong selling pressure, while the second target carries moderate confidence given potential market support. Stay vigilant for any sector news that could impact sentiment.
The one I'm least likely to have to sell is probably HCA or RGLD. I'd only really sell them if they got grossly overvalued, or there was a huge shift in their industries that would cause significant harm to their operations. There's also the risk that management starts screwing up really bad, so maybe then too. Another one I probably wouldn't sell unless the company really started screwing up or got priced way too high(30PE + my tax burden so like 35 PE) is RTX. US military industrials will never fall out of fashion at this rate.
I did, do 11% less people need A/C now? Not financial advice but I bought that and HCA for healthcare using the same regard logic
Hopefully my capital one and HCA calls print. Oh and my tesla 287.5c for next week.
Anybody wanna hop in on HCA Healthcare rn before earnings tomorrow. I work here, and they always going up
Thoughts on HCA prior to earnings tomorrow?
Give it time, the market sometimes lags. If the strike is not resolved within a couple weeks, market will not like it. Unrelated, nurses at HCA hospitals across the country are getting ready to strike. It's not in the news yet, but imminent.
HCA I bought some through a stock purchase plan they had going when I worked at one of their hospitals. They let you invest up to 15% of your pay by buying the stock at a 10% discount to the current stock price. I thought it was a good deal so I maxed out the benefit. Figured it would be a nice steady investment and didn’t really pay attention to it. Well, I just realized that since I’ve owned it, which has been about 9 years or so, it’s quintupled in value. I didn’t expect that rate of return and was pleasantly surprised.
Pelosi got her money by being born rich and marrying richer. A large part of their money came from California real estate when it was skyrocketing. [Celebrity Net Worth](https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/rick-scott-net-worth/) estimates Scott’s net worth to be between $166 and $355 million, based on recent financial disclosures. Scott earned most of his wealth from founding the healthcare company Columbia Hospital Organization with financier Richard Rainwater, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The company merged with Hospital Corporation of America to become the largest for-profit healthcare company in the U.S., with Scott at the helm as CEO. **In 2000, following a 1997 investigation, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and paid $1.7 billion in fines. Scott resigned from his position, but maintained $300 million in company stock, received a $5.1 million severance package, and kept a 5-year consulting retainer worth $950,000 per year,**
Still wrong. It's true that HCA is a for profit, publicly traded company with 186 hospitals in the U.S. However, their hospitals account for just \~3% of all hospitals in the U.S. So you're pointing at one company which has a very small portion of the statistic and making a broad claim that all hospitals make a profit. Of the \~6,100 total hospitals in the U.S., \~4,100 (or 66%) of them are non-profit organizations. This is a "vast majority" and so my original statement stands.
Actually, I’m not. Take HCA for example— one of the largest healthcare / hospital organization in the U.S. they are publicly traded and very much a for profit business. There are a few other large orgs like them that are for profit as well. All hospitals make a profit, again— the ‘non-profit’ ones have restrictions on what that profit can be used for to maintain their status as a non-profit.
Not just this year. It has outperformed the S&P 500 index over the past 13 years https://totalrealreturns.com/n/HCA,SPY However, for the OP just starting out, it's probably best to stick with more diversified funds.
HCA has been a banger this year.
1. NVDA - core holding 2. AZO - core holding 3. HCA - recently traded into a core holding 4. AMZN - recent trade 5. ELF - core holding 6. NFLX - trade since last fib 68.1% drop 7. CRM - recent trade up 2% 8. ROKU - recent trade cost average of 52 9. DVN - recent hedged trade on energy markets It's a lot of tech. But tech is the tape until it is not. I'm up on every trade. I'll likely swap DVN, ROKU and another tech trade out for NOVO or ELI very soon. 🤷 Hedge Every Morning With (market dynamics determine how much is heged and when liquidated for the trading session) 1. QID 2. SQQ
Some of my picks and investing ideas going forward: BBSI - Barrett Business Services - Strong fundamentals and job placement services will always be a need ACN - Accenture - I love their business model. Software or any service subscription model with recurring and consistent revenue is enticing GOOGL - Despite ChatGPT possibly taking search engine revenue margin from Google, I think Google is already developing their own proprietary AI software to ward that issue off. They have so many irons in the fire with different things, including Waymo, that I think revenue will continue. United Health and HCA - Solid health insurer and provider Ideas - 1. AI is here to stay. 2. Better to be late to the party - don't catch a falling knife, but wait for fundamentals to sincerely turn around. 3. Insider Buying is not always for obvious reasons. I've lost of many of those. 4. Don't be too diversified. I've owned 300+ stocks at a time and its too hard to manage/oversee. If you want diversification, buy indexes. 5. Personal preference, but I love following Chuck Carnevale and FAST Graphs. Very imformative. Thoughts from others? Investing ideas and specific stocks going forward?
Sell your gold and put it into $HCA, $VOO, $FTXL. $HCA will perform well. Trust $VOO is always a safe bet. $FTXL exposes you to NVDA and QCOM
They're a greedy corporation. As a medical worker, I had maxed out espps with UNH and HCA for several years. Sold all of them to buy more NVDA before the split.
Really depends on who is taking over those hospitals and how state regulators will handle it. Even if someone like HCA intends to buy them, it doesn't mean it'll get approved by the state. HCA themselves (who has bought hospitals from Stewards in the past) shut down services and closes buildings to trim the fat and save money. I would look further into hospitals and their operating budgets. They're really looking to cut costs. Even the properties they have that aren't Stewarts could easily lose tenants.
Oracle has a $10bn contract with xAI to host oracle servers. Partnered with Palantir to help push AI dev Netsuite & Fusion Cloud are market leaders in ERP solutions (Right behind D365 & SAP) Oracle is pushing Oracle healthcare and recently annouced their move to Nashville. Their HQ will be driving distance to HCA so to me it’s logical they make a partnership, contract etc. soon. I work in ERP solutions and have seen the growth with Netsuite (mid-small sized companies). Many companies are moving to digital transformations including adding cloud infrastructure. Believe it or not, there are still very large companies leveraging Oracle databases and paying their insane licensing fees. With that said though, i have seen many companies move more onto Azure infrastructure and databases as well as AWS. Oracle is not a leader by any means but has projected growth to be a $1 trillion company within the next 2-3 years with growth projected at roughly 10%. With the AI boom and lots of market to grab, Oracle could get it together and hop on the AI boom and take a substantial market share away from market leaders.
Maybe you can change my mind :) Oracle is wannabe in tech right now. Everyone on their s/w wants to exit because of predatory licensing. They are a non entity in cloud and AI - I’m yet to meet anyone that runs anything on Oracle cloud, and I didn’t even know Oracle was doing anything in AI (besides probably working to add some tablegpt type model to all the products and charge users a per query fee) I presume you mean cerner as the HCA? Isn’t Epic the big player here, with cerner being used by smaller operations, and no growth?
If we’re exclusively talking public to private to public again: - Dell - LyondellBasell - Hilton - HCA Healthcare - Dollar General Would be a few.
Good comment. Thank you. I've held ENSG & HCA up until recently. And I still hold ADUS. I especially like the health companies that have a significant focus on home care like ADUS, PNTG and AMED. I think insurance companies will try to push patients more and more towards home services to avoid paying for stays in inpatient hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. I think the increase in medical service utilization might last longer than expected. Yes, some of it is due to elective procedures put on hold by the pandemic. But I think some of the increase is due to long lasting health conditions brought on by covid, especially dementia. Even so, I agree that some of these health insurance companies are worth a look at these levels. HUM is down 40% in 1 year and CVS now has p/e under 10.
I have been following PNTG and other healthcare facilities / services like ENSG, HCA, and UNH closely. I actually hold a sizable position in most of these equities, however not PNTG. I was considering purchasing PNTG if it reached the $7-8 range last year, however I would not consider it a buy at the current price. I thought at $10 with a PE of 35ish was a bit overpriced, now with the stock doubling in 6 months and with a PE of near 50, definitely overbought on the hype of medical care and rendering services getting that post-covid elective boost. I would say its a better time to actually buy UNH and other insurers, as those right now seem oversold. In any case, I think buying the original parent company, ENSG is a better buy currently than PNTG. ENSG is by PE and other valuation metrics cheaper, and seems to have better ratios, it's also much more mature and developed and still has plenty of room for growth, and they are doing consistent acquisitions. PNTG just seems to immature a company to be at the current PE that it's at. I would be a buyer for PNTG below $10.
oh dang. we'll get it right next time. I sold CVS because i was scrapping for cash to add more HCA that dipped 5% in a day without any reason. I just thought from this point to 12 months i'd rather have HCA than CVS.
Buying the dip on HCA. Not sure why it is down 5%.
What happened to HCA after the bell?
*\[HCA enters the chat\]* [*https://investor.hcahealthcare.com/news/news-details/2023/HCA-Healthcare-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-2022-Results-and-Provides-2023-Guidance/default.aspx*](https://investor.hcahealthcare.com/news/news-details/2023/HCA-Healthcare-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-2022-Results-and-Provides-2023-Guidance/default.aspx)
Absolutely, the stock price on some of the stocks I had (HCA was one) in spring 2009 suggested they were going bankrupt. I bought a lot of things based on his recommendations. Fear was at an all time high. I'm sure there were lots of other analysts saying strong buy, but he was the only one I remember listening to at the time. Recovery was very swift. I sold all of those stocks off in 2011 and 2012.
What should I buy during this dip? NVO or HCA on my mind or just another NVDA call?
HCA, human bodies will always require maintenance
Pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk, as well as insurance e.g. UNH and hospital companies e.g. HCA
maybe so, i just look at it from if i only had 3 stocks, would BA be one? no, probably HCA or BRK-B
Most recently (within 12 months) I got in on LULU, BABA, RTX, HCA, and TMO. But the stock I have been buying the most was just adding on to AMZN. Hopefully a gamble that pays off in 5 years. Picked a few losers last year PFE, DG and ALB.
UNH / ENSG / HCA are all my top picks.
Other than tech. Healthcare and retail. I made TMO + HCA 12% of my portfolio last year and both now up 25%+. As for retail. COST, ULTA, AMZN and LVMUY have been doing so well for me for a long time. RIght now I got my eye on ACN, CF, CROX, TPH.
Boring day, will help set some tone for tomorrow  Companies Reporting Before The Bell • CommVault Systems is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.73 per share on revenue of $208.06 million. • Hubbell is expected to report quarterly earnings at $3.57 per share on revenue of $1.32 billion. • ManpowerGroup is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $1.20 per share on revenue of $4.56 billion. • Corning is likely to report quarterly earnings at $0.39 per share on revenue of $3.25 billion. • Cambridge is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.93 per share on revenue of $38.38 million. • Malibu Boats is likely to report quarterly earnings at $0.48 per share on revenue of $219.70 million. • Oshkosh is expected to report quarterly earnings at $2.24 per share on revenue of $2.46 billion. • Johnson Controls Intl is likely to report quarterly earnings at $0.51 per share on revenue of $6.12 billion. • Pentair is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.86 per share on revenue of $976.03 million. • MPLX is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.94 per share on revenue of $2.85 billion. • MSCI is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $3.29 per share on revenue of $662.73 million. • Pfizer is likely to report quarterly loss at $0.22 per share on revenue of $14.21 billion. • Marathon Petroleum is likely to report quarterly earnings at $2.21 per share on revenue of $34.66 billion. • JetBlue Airways is likely to report quarterly loss at $0.28 per share on revenue of $2.28 billion. • PulteGroup is projected to report quarterly earnings at $3.22 per share on revenue of $4.48 billion. • M.D.C. Holdings is expected to report quarterly earnings at $1.49 per share on revenue of $1.29 billion. • Polaris is expected to report quarterly earnings at $2.58 per share on revenue of $2.23 billion. • Chunghwa Telecom is estimated to report earnings for its fourth quarter. • Hope Bancorp is expected to report quarterly earnings at $0.21 per share on revenue of $138.35 million. • Camden National is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.79 per share on revenue of $42.22 million. • HCA Healthcare is projected to report quarterly earnings at $5.04 per share on revenue of $16.51 billion. • A.O. Smith is expected to report quarterly earnings at $0.95 per share on revenue of $983.30 million. • General Motors is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $1.16 per share on revenue of $38.75 billion. • Danaher is expected to report quarterly earnings at $1.88 per share on revenue of $6.07 billion. • United Parcel Service (UPS) is likely to report quarterly earnings at $2.47 per share on revenue of $25.48 billion. • Sysco is likely to report quarterly earnings at $0.88 per share on revenue of $19.34 billion. • BBVA is likely to report earnings for its fourth quarter. Companies Reporting After The Bell • Northeast Bank is expected to report quarterly earnings at $1.72 per share on revenue of $36.98 million. • Robert Half is expected to report quarterly earnings at $0.82 per share on revenue of $1.47 billion. • Ashland is expected to report quarterly earnings at $0.19 per share on revenue of $477.78 million. • Teradyne is likely to report quarterly earnings at $0.71 per share on revenue of $674.77 million. • Artisan Partners Asset is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.74 per share on revenue of $249.60 million. 
With that said I have UPS 135P and 180C, HCA 240P, PFE 26P expiring next Friday
The Biden administration has been doing this a lottery. They blocked an HCA hospital merger on the same grounds, and two of the five struggling hospitals are now closed. Truth is, someone with deeper lobbying pockets paid them to do this. In the hospitals case the largest hospital network around the area filed briefs supporting the Biden administration. They didn't want the competition. My guess is that Delta is paying to block the merger.
In rural areas, it’s not. In metropolitan areas, for-profits like HCA will build just miles from other established hospitals to get a cut of clientele. They also buy up underfunded hospitals and either run them into the ground or operate them just good enough to not get shut down while maximizing profits at the expense of patients and staff. Hospitals that actually care about patients and staff can build and expand to cover small hospitals that close. Stopping HCA from buying everything and muddying waters is a good thing.
No, Biden's justice department has been doing this in a lot of industries. HCA bid on a small hospital chain and it was blocked on the same grounds. Now 3 of the 8 hospitals are closed.