Topic: How To Invest

Many thanks for your well advised answers to the questions you receive. They are extremely useful. What should I do with the following stock that I unfortunately already have in my portfolio: CML Healthcare Inc.? Many thanks.

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CML Healthcare Inc., $9.43, symbol CLC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 89.8 million; Market cap: $846.8 million; www.cmlhealthcare.com), was called CML Healthcare Income Fund before it converted from an income trust to a corporation on January 4, 2011. CML (or Canadian Medical Laboratories) is one of Canada’s largest health-care diagnostic services providers. It has two main business segments: Laboratory Services and Imaging Services. Laboratory Services, which provides 45% of CML’s revenue, performs a wide range of medical tests through its Ontario laboratory network, which consists of 117 specimen collection centres and the company’s central laboratory in Mississauga. CML’s large network of labs lets it take advantage of economies of scale that are not available to smaller labs. About 85% of the company’s lab revenues are fixed by an agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Health (more on that below). Imaging Services, which supplies 55% of CML’s revenue, provides medical-imaging services, such as magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), X-ray, ultrasound and…