Employees walk near an Abbott Laboratories sign at the company’s headquarters complex in Abbott Park, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, July 14,2014 (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)© 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP

Healthcare stocks have been among the leaders in the market rebound since the December lows. These five investing experts, and contributors to MoneyShow.com, believe this trend will continue and highlight their current favorite stocks in life sciences and medical devices.

Hilary Kramer, GameChangers

Infection control in hospitals is a serious issue. According to the Leapfrog Group, an organization whose stated purpose is to advance health care transparency for consumers, one in every 25 U.S. hospital patients contacts an infection daily to cause 90,000 deaths per year, explains Hilary Kramer, editor of GameChangers.

Infections also cost billions of dollars, adding expenses to an industry under pressure to control them. Controlling infections is where Cantel Medical Corp. comes in. Cantel is dedicated to selling such products and related services to hospitals and other health care providers.

The company is the largest pure play infection control company, with leading market positions in each of its operating segments. This includes Medical segments, consisting primarily of equipment used to clean and process devices used in endoscopy procedures. This is the largest segment, accounting for 54% of the company’s revenues.

The Life Sciences segment consists of water purification systems and filters used in applications such as dialysis, accounting for 28% of revenues. The final segment is Dental, consisting primarily of sanitary disposable products, accounting for 18% of revenues. Increased patient visits should drive low to high single-digit growth across the company’s product lines. Cantel intends to supplement this growth through new products, market expansion and strategic acquisitions. In fact, the company has completed 35 acquisitions since 2000.

Cantel’s growth strategy has served the company well over the years, with sales growing 16% per year from 2003 through 2018 and operating income increasing 20% per year over the same period. The shares are well off their all-time high of over $130 a share set in May2018 Importantly, the growth story at Cantel remains intact.

Cost pressures will fade in the July 2020 fiscal year, allowing the company to earn $3 a share on another year of 8% revenue growth, aided by the recently completed $32 million acquisition of Omnia S.p.A., a maker of dental consumables based in Italy.  Once the market has visibility to this $3 in EPS, I expect my $92 a share price target to be achieved. Cantel Medical is a buy below $82.

Doug Gerlach, SmallCap Informer

LeMaitre Vascular is a provider of devices, implants and services for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease, a condition that affects more than 200 million people worldwide. The company develops, manufactures and markets disposable and implantable vascular devices to address the needs of vascular surgeons.

LeMaitre’s diversified product portfolio consists of devices used in arteries and veins outside of the heart, such as shunts, catheters, clips, glue, injectors, patches, and grafts. It offers the #1 or #2 products by market share in 12 of 15 vascular product lines, and in total controls about 20% of the approximate $5 billion peripheral vascular market. The company sells to 4,500 hospitals worldwide.

In the 21 years since 1998, LeMaitre has made 21 acquisitions. Historically, LeMaitre has operated in lower-rivalry niche product segments, such as in the markets for biologic vascular patches and valvulotome devices where the number of competitors has historically been limited.

We are modeling 9% average sales growth and 12% average EPS growth through 2022, providing a margin of safety if results meet management’s guidance. Continued margin expansion is expected to help EPS grow faster than sales.

The stock’s current P/E is 22.6, which is 67% of the average five-year P/E. On the downside, a low P/E of 16 (a level not seen since 2010) and flatlined EPS equate to a low price of $16.60. Based on a future high P/E of 25, the stock could reach $46 by2022 An average yield of 1.37% helps boost the average annual expected return to 15.6%, with a 3.3-to-1 upside-to-downside ratio.

Mike Cintolo, Cabot Top Ten Trader

Glaukos developed a solution to help people suffering from a glaucoma, a condition where high pressure in the eye results from lack of ocular fluid drainage. Glaukos came up with the iStent insert procedure, which involves inserting a very tiny stent in the eye during cataract surgery.

Approved in 2012, iStent has been a big growth driver but is now being phased out in favor of the next-gen iStent Inject platform (injectable two-stent therapy); the commercial launch occurred in Q3 2018 and has limited new doctor signups since Glaukos is mainly focused on training existing docs on the new procedure.

At recent conferences, management said around 50% of the customer base is trained, and from that base analysts are projecting around 90% of customers will be on the new platform by the end of2019 Another big positive catalyst for Glaukos was the voluntary exit of competitor Alcon from the market last year, when its CyPass Micro-Stent was shown to be a flop (no better than cataract surgery alone).

That allowed Glaukos to snag some sales reps and gain market share, a good thing since another competitor (Ivantis) just completed a soft launch for its new product Hydrus (only about a dozen sales reps). Given all the variables, analysts expect a dip in growth when Q4 2018 results come out on February 27 (13% revenue growth expected).

But investors are looking ahead, and with training making progress and lots of Alcon sales to grab, Wall Street sees the top line surging 27% this year, a figure that could easily prove conservative if management pulls the right levers. If you’re game, you can start a position here and see what earnings brings.

Richard Moroney, Dow Theory Forecasts

Thermo Fisher Scientific bills itself as “the world leader in serving science.” The life-sciences titan provides a variety of equipment, supplies, and services for both the research and practical sides of the healthcare market. This wide-screen approach has supported impressive growth.

We’re adding the stock to our Focus List of top buy recommendations because we see a lot of reasons for optimism about the shares. Here are just a few:

1) Thermo Fisher operates in four business units: laboratory products and services, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics and life-sciences solutions. Most of Thermo Fisher’s operations assist companies doing pharmaceutical, genetic, or industrial research. Such diversity limits Thermo Fisher’s exposure to weakness in any individual slice of the health-care sector.

2) Thermo Fisher’s business mix allows it to target multiple end markets. In the first three quarters of 2018, the company generated 38% of its revenue from drug and biotechnology firms, with the rest coming from health-care providers and diagnostic labs (21%), industrial and applied science firms (19%), and academic or government researchers (22%).

3) Thermo Fisher, with sales of nearly $24 billion in the last year and a stock-market value of nearly $100 billion, is the giant of the life-sciences group, more than twice the size of its largest competitor. In this highly fragmented industry, most rivals focus on one or two specialties, while Thermo can provide turnkey product and service packages other companies cannot.

4) Since Jan. 2, when Bristol-Myers Squibb announced plans to acquire Celgene life-sciences stocks have rallied an average of 4%. This after averaging declines of 17% in the previous month. We have no qualms about riding a rally, as long as a stock remains reasonably valued — which brings us to the last key sign of health.

5) Thermo Fisher trades at a low premium; the stock sells at 22 times trailing earnings, 11% below the median for life-sciences companies in the S&P 1500 Index and 24% below its own three-year average.

The firm grew December-quarter earnings per share 16% to $3.25 excluding special items, exceeding the consensus by $0.07. Sales, up 7% to $6.51 billion, also topped the consensus.

The company also agreed to sell its pathology division for $1.14 billion in cash to PHC Holdings, based in Japan. PHC supplies microscope slides, instruments, and consumables. Reflecting that divestiture, the company expects 2019 per-share profits of $12.00 to $12.20, up 8% to 10%, on revenue growth of 2% to 4%. Analysts anticipated earnings of $12.25 per share, up 11%, and 4% higher sales. Thermo Fisher is on our Focus List of buy recommendations.

David Toung, Argus Research

Abbott Laboratories is investing to drive future growth. The company has launched a range of products over the past 18 months that have become meaningful contributors to revenue. It is also supporting these products through increased marketing spending and acquiring new growth platforms. Within Diabetes Care, the Freestyle Libre continues perform well following its launch in October 2017.

Freestyle Libre is a wearable, sensor-based continuous blood glucose monitoring system. An advance over other self-monitoring products that does not require finger sticks, the Libre has received CE Mark certification for its next-generation system, which will allow it to be marketed in the EU.

The Libre helped drive revenue in the Diabetes Care segment to $530 million in 4Q18, an increase of 32%. Abbott has expanded production of the Libre in order to meet demand from patients with Type 2 as well as Type 1 diabetes.

Within electrophysiology, sales have been driven by strong demand for cardiac mapping and ablation catheters. Within the structural heart business, sales drivers include the Amplatzer PFO Occluder and the MitraClip, which is used to repair leaky heart valves.

Two recently approved products are also likely to drive growth in 2019: the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device, which was approved by the FDA in October 2018; and the TactiCath Contact Force Ablation Catheter, which was approved in January.

Abbott reported 4Q18 results on January23 Adjusted EPS of $0.81 rose 9.5% from the prior year and matched the consensus estimate. Net sales for the quarter rose to $7.8 billion, up 2.3% as reported and 6.4% on an organic basis.

Abbott has established new guidance for2019 It expects organic sales growth of 6.5%-7.5%, which excludes the impact of foreign exchange. It also expects adjusted EPS of $3.15-$3.25. Based on the updated guidance, we are maintaining our 2019 adjusted EPS estimate of $3.22. We are setting a 2020 estimate of $3.65.

Through increased marketing spending, Abbott is supporting new growth drivers such as the FreeStyle Libre and the Alinity diagnostic system. It is also building new growth platforms by integrating the acquisitions of St. Jude Medical and Alere We believe that these factors, along with management’s strong record of execution, merit a premium valuation. We are reiterating our “buy” rating with a revised price target of $90.

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Health Care stocks have actually been amongst the leaders in the market rebound given that the December lows. These 5 investing professionals, and factors to(**************** ) MoneyShow.com, think this pattern will continue and highlight their present preferred stocks in life sciences and medical gadgets.

Hilary Kramer, GameChangers

Infection control in healthcare facilities is a major concern. According to the Leapfrog Group, a company whose specified function is to advance healthcare openness for customers, one in every 25 U.S. health center clients contacts an infection daily to trigger 90,000 deaths each year, describes Hilary Kramer, editor of GameChangers.

Infections likewise cost billions of dollars, including costs to a market under pressure to manage them. Managing infections is where Cantel Medical Corp. can be found in. Cantel is committed to offering such items and associated services to healthcare facilities and other healthcare companies.

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(************ ) Richard Moroney(****************** ), Dow Theory Projections (*************** )(****************** )

Thermo Fisher Scientific expenses itself as” the world leader in serving science.” The life-sciences titan offers a range of devices, products, and services for both the research study and useful sides of the health care market. This wide-screen method has actually supported outstanding development.

We’re including the stock to our Focus List of leading buy suggestions due to the fact that we see a great deal of factors for optimism about the shares. Here are simply a couple of:

1) Thermo Fisher runs in 4 company systems: lab services and products, analytical instruments, specialized diagnostics and life-sciences services. The Majority Of Thermo Fisher’s operations help business doing pharmaceutical, hereditary, or commercial research study. Such variety limitations Thermo Fisher’s direct exposure to weak point in any private piece of the health-care sector.

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The company grew December-quarter incomes per share16% to$ 3.25 leaving out unique products, going beyond the agreement by$ 0.07 Sales, up 7 %to$ 6.51 billion, likewise topped the agreement.

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David Toung, Argus Research Study

Abbott Laboratories is investing to drive future development. The business has actually released a variety of items over the past18 months that have actually ended up being significant factors to earnings. It is likewise supporting these

items through increased marketing costs and obtaining brand-new development platforms.
Within Diabetes Care, the Freestyle Libre continues carry out well following its launch in October2017 (*********** )(************ )Freestyle Libre is a wearable, sensor-based constant blood sugar tracking system. An advance over other self-monitoring items that does not need finger sticks, the Libre has actually gotten CE Mark accreditation for its next-generation system, which will permit it to be marketed in the EU.

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Within electrophysiology, sales have actually been driven by strong need for heart mapping and ablation catheters. Within the structural heart company, sales motorists consist of the Amplatzer PFO Occluder and the MitraClip, which is utilized to fix leaking heart valves.

2 just recently authorized items are likewise most likely to drive development in 2019: the HeartMate 3 left ventricular help gadget, which was authorized by the FDA in October2018; and the TactiCath Contact Force Ablation Catheter, which was authorized in January.

(************ )Abbott reported 4Q (**************************************************************************************************************************************** )results on January23 Changed EPS of$ 0.81 increased 9.5% from the previous year and matched the agreement quote. Net sales for the quarter increased to$ 7.8 billion, up 2.3% as reported and 6.4% on a natural basis.

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for2019 It anticipates natural sales development of 6.5% -7.5%, which leaves out the effect of forex. It likewise anticipates adjusted EPS of $3. 15- $3.(********************************************************************************************************************************* ). Based upon the upgraded assistance, we are preserving our2019 adjusted EPS quote of$ 3.

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Through increased marketing costs, Abbott is supporting brand-new development motorists such as the FreeStyle Libre and the Alinity diagnostic system. It is likewise developing brand-new development platforms by incorporating the acquisitions of St. Jude Medical and Alere Our company believe that these aspects, together with management’s strong record of execution, benefit a premium appraisal. We are repeating our” purchase” ranking with a modified cost target of$90

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(************************************************ )(************** )Health Care stocks have actually been amongst the leaders in the market rebound given that the December lows. These 5 investing professionals, and factors to MoneyShow.com, think this pattern will continue and highlight their present preferred stocks in life sciences and medical gadgets.

Hilary Kramer , GameChangers

Infection control in healthcare facilities is a major concern. According to the Leapfrog Group, a company whose specified function is to advance healthcare openness for customers, one in every 25 U.S. health center clients contacts an infection daily to trigger 90, 000 deaths each year, describes Hilary Kramer, editor of GameChangers.

Infections likewise cost billions of dollars, including costs to a market under pressure to manage them. Managing infections is where . Cantel Medical Corp. can be found in. Cantel is committed to offering such items and associated services to healthcare facilities and other healthcare companies.

The business is the biggest pure play infection control business, with leading market positions in each of its operating sectors. This consists of Medical sectors, consisting mainly of devices utilized to tidy and procedure gadgets utilized in endoscopy treatments. This is the biggest sector, representing 54 % of the business’s incomes.

The Life Sciences sector includes water filtration systems and filters utilized in applications such as dialysis, representing 28 % of incomes. The last sector is Oral, consisting mainly of hygienic non reusable items, representing 18 % of incomes. Increased client gos to need to drive low to high single-digit development throughout the business’s line of product. Cantel plans to supplement this development through brand-new items, market growth and tactical acquisitions. In reality, the business has actually finished 35 acquisitions given that2000

.

Cantel’s development technique has actually served the business well over the years, with sales growing 16 % each year from 2003 through 2018 and running earnings increasing 20 % each year over the very same duration. The shares are well off their all-time high of over $ 130 a share embeded in May2018 Notably, the development story at Cantel stays undamaged.

Expense pressures will fade in the July 2020 , enabling the business to make $ 3 a share on another year of 8 % earnings development, helped by the just recently finished $ 32 million acquisition of Omnia S.p.A., a maker of oral consumables based in Italy. As soon as the marketplace has exposure to this $ 3 in EPS, I anticipate my $ 92 a share cost target to be accomplished. Cantel Medical is a buy listed below $82

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Doug Gerlach , SmallCap Informer

LeMaitre Vascular is a service provider of gadgets, implants and services for the treatment of peripheral vascular illness, a condition that impacts more than 200 million individuals worldwide. The business establishes, produces and markets non reusable and implantable vascular gadgets to resolve the requirements of vascular cosmetic surgeons.

LeMaitre’s varied item portfolio includes gadgets utilized in arteries and veins beyond the heart, such as shunts, catheters, clips, glue, injectors, spots, and grafts. It uses the # 1 or # 2 items by market share in 12 of 15 vascular line of product, and in overall controls about 20 % of the approximate $ 5 billion peripheral vascular market. The business offers to 4, 500 healthcare facilities worldwide.

In the 21 years given that 1998, LeMaitre has actually made 21 acquisitions. Historically, LeMaitre has actually run in lower-rivalry specific niche item sectors, such as in the markets for biologic vascular spots and valvulotome gadgets where the variety of rivals has actually traditionally been restricted.

We are modeling 9 % typical sales development and 12 % typical EPS development through 2022, offering a margin of security if outcomes satisfy management’s assistance. Continued margin growth is anticipated to assist EPS grow faster than sales.

The stock’s present P/E is 22.6, which is 67 % of the typical five-year P/E. On the disadvantage, a low P/E of 16 (a level not seen given that 2010) and flatlined EPS relate to a low cost of $16 60. Based upon a future high P/E of 25, the stock might reach $ 46 by2022 A typical yield of 1. 37 % assists increase the typical yearly anticipated go back to 15.6 %, with a 3.3-to-1 upside-to-downside ratio.

Mike Cintolo , Cabot Top 10 Trader

Glaukos established an option to assist individuals struggling with a glaucoma, a condition where high pressure in the eye arises from absence of ocular fluid drain. Glaukos created the iStent insert treatment, which includes placing an extremely small stent in the eye throughout cataract surgical treatment.

Authorized in 2012, iStent has actually been a huge development motorist however is now being phased out in favor of the next-gen iStent Inject platform (injectable two-stent treatment); the business launch happened in Q3 2018 and has actually restricted brand-new medical professional signups given that Glaukos is primarily concentrated on training existing docs on the brand-new treatment.

At current conferences, management stated around 50 % of the client base is trained, and from that base experts are predicting around 90 % of consumers will be on the brand-new platform by the end of2019 Another huge favorable driver for Glaukos was the voluntary exit of rival Alcon from the marketplace in 2015, when its CyPass Micro-Stent was revealed to be a flop (no much better than cataract surgical treatment alone).

That permitted Glaukos to snag some sales representatives and acquire market share, an advantage given that another rival (Ivantis) simply finished a soft launch for its brand-new item Hydrus (just about a lots sales representatives). Provided all the variables, experts anticipate a dip in development when Q4 2018 results come out on February 27 (13 % earnings development anticipated).

However financiers are looking ahead, and with training making development and great deals of Alcon sales to get, Wall Street sees the leading line rising 27 % this year, a figure that might quickly show conservative if management pulls the best levers. If you’re video game, you can begin a position here and see what incomes brings.

Richard Moroney , Dow Theory Projections

. Thermo Fisher Scientific expenses itself as “the world leader in serving science.” The life-sciences titan offers a range of devices, products, and services for both the research study and useful sides of the health care market. This wide-screen method has actually supported outstanding development.

We’re including the stock to our Focus List of leading buy suggestions due to the fact that we see a great deal of factors for optimism about the shares. Here are simply a couple of:

1) Thermo Fisher runs in 4 company systems: lab services and products, analytical instruments, specialized diagnostics and life-sciences services. The Majority Of Thermo Fisher’s operations help business doing pharmaceutical, hereditary, or commercial research study. Such variety limitations Thermo Fisher’s direct exposure to weak point in any private piece of the health-care sector.

2) Thermo Fisher’s company mix permits it to target numerous end markets. In the very first 3 quarters of 2018, the business created 38 % of its earnings from drug and biotechnology companies, with the rest originating from health-care companies and diagnostic laboratories (21 %), commercial and used science companies (19 %), and scholastic or federal government scientists (22 %).

3) Thermo Fisher, with sales of almost $ 24 billion in the in 2015 and a stock-market worth of almost $ 100 billion, is the giant of the life-sciences group, more than two times the size of its biggest rival. In this extremely fragmented market, the majority of competitors concentrate on a couple of specializeds, while Thermo can offer turnkey product or services bundles other business can not.

4) Given That Jan. 2, when . Bristol-Myers Squibb revealed strategies to get . Celgene life-sciences stocks have actually rallied approximately 4 %. This after balancing decreases of 17 % in the previous month. We have no qualms about riding a rally, as long as a stock stays fairly valued– which brings us to the last crucial indication of health.

5) Thermo Fisher trades at a low premium; the stock costs 22 times routing incomes, 11 % listed below the average for life-sciences business in the S&P 1500 Index and 24 % listed below its own three-year average.

The company grew December-quarter incomes per share 16 % to $ 3. 25 leaving out unique products, going beyond the agreement by $ 0.07 Sales, up 7 % to $ 6. 51 billion, likewise topped the agreement.

The business likewise accepted offer its pathology department for $ 1. 14 billion in money to PHC Holdings, based in Japan. PHC products microscopic lense slides, instruments, and consumables. Showing that divestiture, the business anticipates 2019 per-share revenues of $12 00 to $12 20, up 8 % to 10 %, on earnings development of 2 % to 4 %. Experts prepared for incomes of $12 25 per share, up 11 %, and 4 % greater sales. Thermo Fisher is on our Focus List of buy suggestions.

David Toung , Argus Research Study

. Abbott Laboratories is investing to drive future development. The business has actually released a variety of items over the past 18 months that have actually ended up being significant factors to earnings. It is likewise supporting these items through increased marketing costs and obtaining brand-new development platforms. Within Diabetes Care, the Freestyle Libre continues carry out well following its launch in October2017

.

Freestyle Libre is a wearable, sensor-based constant blood sugar tracking system. An advance over other self-monitoring items that does not need finger sticks, the Libre has actually gotten CE Mark accreditation for its next-generation system, which will permit it to be marketed in the EU.

The Libre assisted drive earnings in the Diabetes Care sector to $ 530 million in 4Q 18, a boost of 32 %. Abbott has actually broadened production of the Libre in order to satisfy need from clients with Type 2 in addition to Type 1 diabetes.

Within electrophysiology, sales have actually been driven by strong need for heart mapping and ablation catheters. Within the structural heart company, sales motorists consist of the Amplatzer PFO Occluder and the MitraClip, which is utilized to fix leaking heart valves.

2 just recently authorized items are likewise most likely to drive development in 2019: the HeartMate 3 left ventricular help gadget, which was authorized by the FDA in October 2018; and the TactiCath Contact Force Ablation Catheter, which was authorized in January.

Abbott reported 4Q 18 results on January23 Changed EPS of $ 0. 81 increased 9.5 % from the previous year and matched the agreement quote. Net sales for the quarter increased to $ 7.8 billion, up 2.3 % as reported and 6.4 % on a natural basis.

Abbott has actually developed brand-new assistance for2019 It anticipates natural sales development of 6.5 % -7.5 %, which leaves out the effect of forex. It likewise anticipates adjusted EPS of $ 3. 15 – $ 3.25 Based upon the upgraded assistance, we are preserving our 2019 adjusted EPS quote of $ 3.22 We are setting a 2020 quote of $ 3.65

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Through increased marketing costs, Abbott is supporting brand-new development motorists such as the FreeStyle Libre and the Alinity diagnostic system. It is likewise developing brand-new development platforms by incorporating the acquisitions of St. Jude Medical and. Alere . Our company believe that these aspects, together with management’s strong record of execution, benefit a premium appraisal. We are repeating our “purchase” ranking with a modified cost target of $90

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