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Debbie Wang
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Quest Diagnostics Delivers Solid Quarter, but PAMA Cuts Cast Cloud Over Reference Labs

Following solid performance in the third quarter, Quest Diagnostics is on track to meet our full-year projections and we’re leaving our fair value estimate unchanged.  The narrow-moat company continues to see decent increases in volume and revenue per requisitions (driven mainly by test mix and density of requisitions), despite the hurricanes that damped volume growth by an estimated 140 basis points. The proposed reimbursement cuts to the Medicare clinical lab fee schedule (coming off PAMA) rem...
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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated

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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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Debbie Wang

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