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Drugs Sector

Hot Stocks in This Sector	Johnson & Johnson, Walgreen Company, Abbott Laboratories, Schering-Plough, Elan Corporation, plc, CVS, Merck & Company, Pfizer.
Related Sectors	Healthcare, Medical Facilities.
Hot Sectors	Investing, Healthcare, Services, Banking, Energy.
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Industries in the Drugs Sector

• Drug Stores

• Drug Manufacturers - Major

• Drugs Wholesale

• Drug Manufacturers - Other

• Drug Delivery

• Drug Related Products

• Drugs - Generic

Drugs Upgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
11/09/2009	AZN	RBS	Hold	Buy
11/03/2009	HLF	Avondale Securities	Market Perfrom	Market Outperform
10/28/2009	USNA	DA Davidson	Neutral	Buy
10/15/2009	PRX	Barclays	Equalweight	Overweight

Drugs Downgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
11/09/2009	AZN	J.P. Morgan	Neutral	Underweight
11/06/2009	CAH	Jefferies & Co	Buy	Hold
11/06/2009	CVS	William Blair	Outperform	Market Perform
11/02/2009	GERN	Needham & Co	Buy	Hold

Drugs New Coverages

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Rating
11/05/2009	YMI	Merriman Curhan Ford	Buy; Intriguing Opportunity
10/30/2009	ALXN	Bank of America	Neutral
10/30/2009	ALXN	Bank of America	Neutral
10/30/2009	VRTX	Deutsche Bank	Buy

Drugs Earnings

Date	Ticker	Actual	Expected	Prev Yr Qtr
11/10/2009	JAV	-0.11	-0.10	-0.18
11/10/2009	ACET	0.04	0.06	0.18
11/10/2009	RDEA	-0.13	-0.53	-0.95
11/10/2009	DUSA	-0.02	-0.04	-0.12
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Stock of the Day

The Drugs Sector's CVS Caremark (CVS) was InvestorGuide.com's Stock of the Day on 11/5/2009.
CVS is Pained by its Weak Pharmacy Benefits Division
CVS Caremark Corp. is a company that wears many different hats. The company runs a network of over 7,000 CVS drugstores, maintains pharmacy locations within those drugstores, and now also owns a pharmacy benefits company (Caremark). Although these businesses are very closely related, the acquisition of Caremark was questioned by many investors. Investors saw this as a risky move which might help the company, but one which might also cause more pain than it was worth. This quarter, as it has been with every quarter since the acquisition, investors and analysts waited to see if the results would help them determine if this was indeed a good decision or not. And based on the response of the investors after the earnings announcement, they got a very clear answer. Read more

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