Health and Healthcare

Cramer's Second Pick For Five Years Out: MedcoHealth (MHS)

On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he wanted to review some picks that you might want to own with a 5-year time horizon for the future.  He wants to look beyond the current markets and the volatility, so he wants to look at earnings visibility for a multi-year period.  So that way he can look past a major market swing or against an analyst panicking over a stock drop.  He has three picks that have 5-years worth of visibility and his SECOND PICK is as follows:

  • Cramer’s second pick for 5-years out tonight was MedcoHealth Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:MHS).  Cramer loves the visibility on, and the drops recently allow you to get it cheaper.  The pharmacy benefit manager is one of the healthcare cost containment companies and that sector has huge visibility.  They even make more when big brand drugs lose their patents, and $77 Billion worth of blockbuster drugs are coming off patent in the coming years.  This allows MedcoHealth to pit the drug sellers against each other and it gets to make more off customers than you’d expect.  The growth is visible and he thinks there is a $6 Billion gain coming in profits.  Cramer also loves its higher margin tailored drug program and its mail order business, but he really loves the visibility to 2012.

His first pick was First Solar and you can see that here.

Here are some other Cramer highlights:

Here is our own open email distribution list where we highlight some other Cramer picks, buyouts, break-ups, spin-offs, value stocks, merger-arb, and more.

Jon C. Ogg
December 17, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he produces the SPECIAL SITUATION newsletter and he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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