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Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. (HRC)

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Holding Company for two major operating businesses serving the health care and funeral service industries.

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Aggressive Growth (860), Defensive (1457), Personal Services (3), Small Cap (1645), Healthcare Equipment and Supplies (176), Healthcare (711), Supplies (52), Growth (1902)
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Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $23.88
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:01 PM
Open: $24.10
Previous Close: $23.84
Daily Range: $23.76 - $24.23
52-Week Range: $8.57 - $24.88
Volume: 603,901
Market Cap: $1.50B
P/E Ratio: 18.80
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Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. (HRC)

Avatar FieryGuy7 (76.05) Submitted: 12/05/07 12:31 PM

The funeral industry will be a "growth" industry in the coming years thanks to the boomers. These guys know how to manage their business.

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Avatar ALPHADividend (93.21) Submitted: 4/16/09 1:11 AM : Outperform Start Price: $11.65 HRC Score: 78.89

This company appears to offer a solid opportunity as of today (April 2009).
The company is trading below reported book value and is paying high dividends. Additionally the company operates outside of the FIRE (financial insurance real estate) sector of the economy, so chances are, what you see is what you get. I've personally screened this company to ensure it did not expand excessively during the hot years (2004-2008).
This company was found today via google screener with the following criteria:
atleast 100m market cap or more
has fallen more than 45% past 1yr
dividend payers @3% or more
atleast 25% institutionally held
price to book less than 1
have total debt/assets less than 100%
have total debt/equity less than 100%
personally screened to make sure the companies were not FIRE industries (financial/insurance/real estate), oil commodity related, industrial metal commodities related, sea shipping related
personally verified limitation on expansion during boom years (not excessive BS growth from '04-'08)

the resulting dividend companies to buy are:
AM, BRC, CBS, CBT, CDI, CSS, GLT, HRC, KELYA, LYTS, MEI, MWV, SXI, TKR, UVV

conversely I will be looking to short opportunities with opposite criteria.

This will be the primary focus of this profile, to seek & obtain alpha from long/short dividend opportunities across various industries.
- ALPHADividend

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Avatar archangelv1 (30.98) Submitted: 5/23/08 5:37 PM : Underperform Start Price: $30.25 HRC Score: 1.75

Slow start in Capital sales. Lots of debt from split.

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Avatar aaacs (76.45) Submitted: 1/28/08 9:17 AM : Outperform Start Price: $18.48 HRC Score: 45.36

Splitsville will onlock value here after litigations are settled

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 (HRC)

Avatar FieryGuy7 (76.05) Submitted: 12/05/07 12:31 PM : Outperform Start Price: $19.95 HRC Score: 44.21

The funeral industry will be a "growth" industry in the coming years thanks to the boomers. These guys know how to manage their business.

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Avatar kristm (99.68) Submitted: 8/29/07 1:57 AM : Outperform Start Price: $20.60 HRC Score: 37.74

"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." -Ben Franklin
The government pretty much has a lock on taxes, but if you want to invest in the deathcare business then this is the way to go. Leading supplier of caskets, cremation urns, and related equipment/services. Everybody dies eventually - and nearly everyone who does gets buried or cremated and then needs one of this company's expensive products.

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