Quest Diagnostics Incorporated: Update of our credit view following revision of outlook to positive
Our credit view of this issuer reflects its considerable scale and low financial leverage, offset by its significant cash deployed to shareholders.Quest Diagnostics provides diagnostic information services. The company's diagnostic information segment provides information based on the menu of routine, non-routine and clinical testing and anatomic pathology testing, and other diagnostic information services. The company's testing capabilities, includes services for the predisposition, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of cancers and other diseases, and provides tests in several fields, including endocrinology, immunology, neurology and oncology. The company's diagnostic solutions provides risk assessment services for the life insurance industry, as well as provides healthcare organizations and clinicians health information technology solutions.
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