Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (GTIV)

eps acceleration&growth / value / recent price strength (4w)

Showed up on a screen for solid 5 year growth with low debt, cash on hand and still at attractive P/E ratios.

I think this stock is about 60% undervalued. Whatever health care legislation is passed, I don't believe it will hurt the earnings for this home health care company.

Baby boomers are getting older.

Considering Book value, earnings, and market cap...this should beat the market in 5 years.

ridiculously low pe.
theeir management is changing - for better or for worse

Gentiva Health Services has low P/E, low P/S, and low P/CF ratios. Additionally, it's low D/E, Net Profit Margin ratios indicate that it's an undervalued company that is poised to grow over time w/ strong financial report.

Low relative PE, good star ranking, PEG & 09 PE still below normal - bottom fishing 4/27 picks.

oversold, solid business model, solid track record.

My target for Gentiva Health Se is 120.29. I used my new method for determining a fair P/E (based on G and K). The growth factor was extracted from the PEG found on the web. K was 10%. I hope it works!

Good healthcare play and Zacks recent recommendation Jan 15, 2009. I bought the same day and already up nicely.

hiring frenzy

IBD

Westfield

they have longevity and industry leaders

I liked TMF's writeup.

I'm a skeptic at this price. If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say "baby boomers are getting older and will need healthcare", I'd probably have like hundreds of dollars by now . Seriously though, the three reasons why you shouldn't buy this stock after such a significant rise.

1) Gas prices - Think about it. One of the greatest components of cost in home health care is gasoline. The nurses and aides have to travel to/from the homes and they take automobiles. This cost gets passed on to the employer and then onto the patient. This will eventually narrow the margin between home health and assisted living care.

2) Wages in the medical profession - Do nurses grow on trees? Last time I checked, they didn't. You're talking about increasingly high costs for nurses and therapists as a high amount of competition exists between hospitals, nursing facilities, home health agencies, etc. This will drive the price of home health visits up, especially with a nursing shortage looming (or already here).

3) Fragmented industry- Gentiva is the "leader" in an easily penetrated market segment. This should be a plus. But, there's a lot of competition. I don't buy that they'll be a market leader any time soon and I don't buy that any local hospital wouldn't just start their own HHA and be able to better compete based on their image. There's not a lot of capital investment involved in starting a HHA, so there's practically no barrier to entry.

Long term company. Well diversified and with more dynamic leadership to grow as America ages.

excellent management