If Successful, It Will Be the Second IPO In Eight Years There has been much talk about the senior care IPO market opening up, but so far only one company, Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), has been able to successfully complete its initial public offering. Prior to...
A $625 Million Deal A Long Time In The Making After several months of potential bidders taking a look at the assets and operations of Harborside Healthcare Corporation, and with investment banker UBS Investment Bank narrowing the field down to the final four or...
Rob Mains, Manging Director and Equity Analyst, Ryan Beck & Co. Why are health care REIT stocks performing so well in 2006? Should more of them diversify into the medical office building market? Do the differences in dividend yield among the health care REITs...
The Clock Is Ticking, But Ventas Is Not Distracted The appraisals for the Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND) rent-reset with Ventas (NYSE: VTR) are due to both parties on October 7, which just happens to be a Saturday, so they may have to wait until Monday. But that is a...
Over the past two years, we have chronicled the resurrection of Advocat (OTCBB: AVCA) from a company that stood at the precipice of bankruptcy with a share price that had plunged to below $0.20 per share and profits nowhere to be seen, to one of the best stock...
Sunrise, Sun Healthcare buying hospice businesses During the 1990s, senior care companies increased their cash flow and organic growth by expanding into various ancillary services such as institutional pharmacy, rehab therapy and, to a much more modest degree, adult...