Topic: How To Invest

Hello Pat: I would like your opinion on a healthcare stock I am considering adding to my portfolio, CML Healthcare. Thank you.

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CML Healthcare Inc., $12.00, symbol CLC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 89.7 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; www.cmlhealthcare.com) was formerly CML Healthcare Income Fund before it converted to a corporation on January 4, 2011. CML (or Canadian Medical Laboratories) is one of Canada’s largest health-care diagnostic services providers. CML has two main business segments: Laboratory Services and Imaging Services. Laboratory Services accounts for 45% of CML’s revenue, and performs a wide range of medical tests through its Ontario laboratory network, which includes the company’s central laboratory in Mississauga and 120 specimen-collection centres. The size of CML’s lab network 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. 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 mammography. The company provides these services through 108 medical-imaging…