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Could you give your assessment on the prospects for CML HealthCare? Thank you.

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CML HealthCare Inc., $7.28, symbol CLC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 90.0 million; Market cap: $656.0 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 divisions: Laboratory Services and Imaging Services. Laboratory Services, which provides 70% of CML’s revenue, performs a wide range of medical tests through its Ontario laboratory network, which consists of 114 specimen-collection centres and a central lab in Mississauga. CML’s large network of labs lets it take advantage of economies of scale that are not available to smaller competitors. The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care supplies about 88% of the company’s lab revenue. In 2011, the Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories, of which CML is a member, and the Ontario government finalized a new two-year performance-based funding agreement for laboratory services. This is in addition…