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Analysts raise earnings forecasts for healthcare firms as Covid-19 testing, vaccinations ramp up

The Straits Times2021-06-11

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Two brokerages have raised their respective earnings forecasts for Raffles Medical Group and Q&M Dental Group as they consider these healthcare stocks well-poised to ...

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tkj
·2021-11-27
I am a bit confused here. UOB raise target price of RMG to 1.27 and recommended a buy. But current RMG price is 1.39. The price is already above the target price. How could UOB still recommend a buy? The current price may represent an over valuation. So should buy or not to buy now? 🤔
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OO_898
·2021-11-02
Look forward [Strong]
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·2021-06-12
Gogogo
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Liberia
·2021-06-11
Nice
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TraderGw
·2021-06-11
Afternoon yall
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shafeeq1993
·2021-06-11
Good info
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Bear22bear
·2021-06-11
Cool
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Shyon
·2021-06-11
Like and your stock will limit up tonite
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·2021-06-11
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  Keep inovating and progress 🤑
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Azagathoth
·2021-06-11
Good.
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·2021-06-11
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·2021-06-11
Ok
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·2021-06-11
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  Keep inovating and progress 🤑Keep inovating and progress 🤑
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·2021-06-11
Noted
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Samluo
·2021-06-11
Q&m is a terrible employer. Ceo only cares about bottom line. Bosses should learn fromsheng siong ceo
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·2021-06-11
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·2021-06-11
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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. With Q&M's plans on expanding its network, we expect resilience in future years via gaining greater market share,\" he added.\nShares Raffles Medical was trading $0.01 or 0.9 per cent higher at $1.15 as at 11.12am on Friday, while Q&M was up by one cent or 1.5 per cent at 68.5 cents.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":181659887,"gmtCreate":1623391811849,"gmtModify":1634033824896,"author":{"id":"3562288345465729","authorId":"3562288345465729","name":"TheRainmaker","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a2446b188392bb216f8e13ba56e44832","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3562288345465729","authorIdStr":"3562288345465729"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/181659887","repostId":2142799002,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2142799002","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1623386292,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2142799002?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-11 12:38","market":"sg","language":"en","title":"Analysts raise earnings forecasts for healthcare firms as Covid-19 testing, vaccinations ramp up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2142799002","media":"The Straits Times","summary":"SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Two brokerages have raised their respective earnings forecasts for ","content":"<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Two brokerages have raised their respective earnings forecasts for Raffles Medical Group and Q&M Dental Group as they consider these healthcare stocks well-poised to ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/analysts-raise-earnings-forecasts-for-healthcare-firms-as-covid-19\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"straits_highlight","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. With Q&M's plans on expanding its network, we expect resilience in future years via gaining greater market share,\" he added.\nShares Raffles Medical was trading $0.01 or 0.9 per cent higher at $1.15 as at 11.12am on Friday, while Q&M was up by one cent or 1.5 per cent at 68.5 cents.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4682375,"gmtCreate":1623398374911,"gmtModify":1635327931891,"authorId":3579903850271065,"author":{"id":3579903850271065,"idStr":"3579903850271065","authorId":3579903850271065,"name":"nicoco","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":181659887,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"like","text":"like","html":"like"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":181626970,"gmtCreate":1623391439490,"gmtModify":1631884647507,"author":{"id":"3565266382047895","authorId":"3565266382047895","name":"PerDerDer","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9623a23c5fff390e6ce879caff27c3c2","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3565266382047895","authorIdStr":"3565266382047895"},"htmlText":"Post&nbsp;","listText":"Post&nbsp;","text":"Post","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/181626970","repostId":2142799002,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2142799002","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1623386292,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2142799002?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-11 12:38","market":"sg","language":"en","title":"Analysts raise earnings forecasts for healthcare firms as Covid-19 testing, vaccinations ramp up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2142799002","media":"The Straits Times","summary":"SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Two brokerages have raised their respective earnings forecasts for ","content":"<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Two brokerages have raised their respective earnings forecasts for Raffles Medical Group and Q&M Dental Group as they consider these healthcare stocks well-poised to ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/analysts-raise-earnings-forecasts-for-healthcare-firms-as-covid-19\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"straits_highlight","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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Acumen Diagnostics is mainly involved in the manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits for Covid-19.\n\"Q&M continues to generate stable and resilient earnings, and we foresee no material changes in or threats to its market share in the private dental space in the medium term,\" said Mr Ng.\n\"Overall, Singapore continues to be the main revenue driver as a significant proportion of Q&M's sales are generated by the local segment. 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