Focus Stock of the Week
CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS)
This week’s Focus Stock of the Week is CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS: $44), which carries S&P Capital IQ’s highest investment recommendation of 5-STARS, or Strong Buy. We believe CVS Caremark is well positioned to benefit as an operator of both one of the largest retail drugstore chains (based on store count and revenues) and one of the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) businesses in the U.S. (based on lives covered)....
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Industry Profile
Drug Retail
We have a positive fundamental outlook for the drug retail sub-industry for the next 12 months. We believe benefits from increased sales of generic drugs will support margins, despite increased drug reimbursement pressure and increased competition from non-traditional formats....
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