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CVS Heath ( CVS -0.8% ) and Aetna ( AET +0.2% ) report that their respective shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed merger. In special meetings, 98% of the CVS shares voted were in favor of the tie-up while 97% of the Aetna shares voted backed the deal. ...
WOONSOCKET, R.I. , March 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- In a special meeting held today, CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) stockholders voted to approve the shares of company stock to be issued in the company's acquisition of Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET), one of the nation's leading diversified...
At today’s special meeting of Aetna (NYSE: AET ) shareholders, approximately 97 percent of the votes cast, and over 77 percent of the 326,942,525 shares outstanding and entitled to vote, voted to approve and adopt the agreement and plan of merger dated as of December 3, 2017, as it m...
Stock prices represent the expected future performance of a given company. Stock prices, particularly at large cap companies, are governed by the interest and excitement (or negative view) of giant institutional investors. Over the years, I have met many very smart buy side investors and I ha...
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Despite the retail pressures, the recent sell-off in CVS ( CVS ) presents a buying opportunity. To be fair, CVS has received some deserved, negative sentiment due to some changes in retail and healthcare. However, the company is at a pivotal point in its future. First, the company has excellen...
We’ve written before about how the “earnings recovery” in U.S. equity markets is an illusion . Accounting earnings may have rebounded from 2015 lows, but economic earnings —which reverse accounting distortions and account for the weighted average cost of capital...
Benjamin Graham is considered the “godfather” of value investing. Warren Buffett and Joel Greenblatt are also value devotees. In a nutshell, value investing is selecting stocks based on the belief that they trade for less than their intrinsic value. In other words, value investor...
In an interview with CNBC, Warren Buffett said the healthcare joint venture between Berkshire, Amazon and JPMorgan is "far more ambitious" than just leveraging negotiating strength to shave 3 - 4% off costs. Its goal is to deliver better care for less money, an objective that he cautions w...
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