Ostracism Health Care Meets Estimates With 18% Profit Rise
British capital — Coventry Health Care stated fourth-quarter net income rose 18% to USD 184.3 000 000, or USD 1.18 a portion, with gross up 44% to USD 2.79 000 000 000. For the first quarter, it anticipates earnings betwixt 85 centimes and 87 pennies a part on receipts between USD 2.9 000 000 000 and USD 3.1 000 000 000, and annual profit between USD 4.42 to USD 4.58 on gross between USD 12.35 000 000 000 and USD 12.9 000 000 000. Psychoanalysts polled by Thomson Financial expected the society to pull in USD 1.18 a portion for the fourth quarter and USD 4.55 a portion for 2008.