Use access key #2 to skip to page content.
$57.95 -0.86 (-1.46%)
8/29/2008 3:40 PM

McKesson Corp (MCK)

CAPS Rating:
*****

Providing supply, information and care management products and services designed to reduce costs and improve quality across the healthcare industry.

Rating a stock in CAPS consists of three components:

Your call - Will this stock outperform or underperform the S&P 500? Successful picks are measured in terms of whether or not you were correct and by how many percentage points.

Your time frame - A guideline for other members to see whether your thinking is short or long-term. Time frame is also used to calculate the stock rating, but is not used in the scoring of your pick.

Your pitch - Here's your chance to offer more detailed thoughts, analysis, concerns, or the rationale behind your call. The pitch is optional and may be added later.

Each time you rate a stock, CAPS updates the community intelligence for the company, which may or may not change its CAPS rating. For more information, visit the Help tab at the top of the page.

You aren't currently rating MCK

Add Stock to Watchlist

What the Community Thinks

Total Members

251 Outperforms
12 Underperforms
 

All-Stars

97 Outperforms
5 Underperforms
 

Wall Street

12 Outperforms
1 Underperforms
 

Members bullish on MCK are also bullish on:

Members bearish on MCK are also bearish on:

Ticker Tags

S&P 500 (479), Drugs Wholesale (14), Business Week 50 (50), Six Sigma® (37), Robots (4), Large Cap (467)
Suggest a tag

McKesson Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $57.95
Last Trade Time: 8/29/2008 3:40 PM
Open: $58.85
Previous Close: $58.81
Daily Range: $57.86 - $59.06
52-Week Range: $51.08 - $68.43
Volume: 1,495,042
Market Cap: $16.23B
P/E Ratio: 17.00
Compare Our Special Broker Offers!

Stock Trends

MCK VS S&P 500 (SPY)

MCK 12 month chart vs. S&P

News & Discussion Boards

Other News Headlines for MCK

More Headlines...

Top Bull Pitch

Recs

4

McKesson Corp (MCK)

Avatar JCSmiley (< 20) Submitted: 4/04/08 12:19 PM

MCK is currently trading at a slight discount to its intrinsic value. This is a very safe stock because of the business service MCK provides. Without MCK, the healthcare IT system as we know it would collapse.

This is a super-long hold for me. They have nice growth potential and a lock on a bu...More

Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Top Bear Pitch

There are no pitches that meet the Top Bear criteria. Explain

If this upsets you, start recommending pitches below!

CAPS Members

picks per page. CHANGE

Results 1 - 5 of 42 :   1 2 3 4 5 Next »

Recs

1

 (MCK)

Avatar colonelnelson (49.12) Submitted: 8/23/08 11:16 PM : Outperform Start Price: $58.43 MCK Score: -0.92

A recommendation from Johanna Bennett of Barron's Weekly. MCK is a play on the growing demand for generic drugs.





MCK acts as a middleman for the drug industry, distributing Rx meds to hospitals and drug retailers. MCK is the largest generic-drug distributor in the U.S. As many widely used drugs are coming off patent, MCK will be able to use their leverage as the top generic distributer to negotiate the best prices and grow their market share.





Last year drug sales and fees from drug makers earned MCK $96B in revenues. MCK also has a small medical-device business which generated $2.5B last year and a growing computer system drug tracking business that generated $3B in sales last year. The later was the most profitable and fastest growing part of the business, earning 17% of the companies profits!





MCK is currently trading at 13.4 times projected profits over the next year--an inexpensive multiple considering that the company is growing earnings at a rate in the mid teens. It is cheap at these prices, and poised to gain substantially in the coming year. OUTPERFORM.

Report this Post Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Recs

0

 (MCK)

Avatar nilshp (87.53) Submitted: 6/24/08 5:18 PM : Outperform Start Price: $55.99 MCK Score: 5.61

Fortune 40 Bargain Growth

Report this Post Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Recs

0

 (MCK)

Avatar awallejr (< 20) Submitted: 6/20/08 4:50 PM : Outperform Start Price: $57.10 MCK Score: 3.86

An aging of America play. Have to like when the company re-affirms its eps growth next year higher than the anlayst's.

Report this Post Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Recs

0

 (MCK)

Avatar DBest1 (35.91) Submitted: 6/11/08 2:35 PM : Outperform Start Price: $55.49 MCK Score: 8.74

MCK= Healthcare IT. Without it we would be in serious trouble. MCK is holding steady and I believe will be one of my best pics. I just wish I had the money I would like to have to invest in MCK right now.

Report this Post Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Recs

0

 (MCK)

Avatar wizardvega (64.45) Submitted: 5/06/08 2:28 PM : Outperform Start Price: $57.60 MCK Score: 9.39

Older Care management systems are up for replacement and it seems Mckesson is sweeping them, over other players in the segment.

Looks strong with good PE

Report this Post Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Results 1 - 5 of 42 :   1 2 3 4 5 Next »

Wall Street

Results 1 - 13 of 13  

picks per page. CHANGE Expand All Pitches

Top
Pick
Member NameMember RatingStart
Date
CallTime FrameStart
Price
Stock
Gain
S&P
Gain
ScorePitch
TrackLeerinkSwan 98.58 06/20/08 Outperform NS $57.19+1.47%-2.88%+4.35
TrackJMP < 20 06/06/08 Outperform NS $57.23+1.40%-8.03%+9.42
TrackJefferies 94.70 04/16/08 Outperform NS $52.48+10.58%-3.54%+14.12
TrackJimCramer 81.86 04/08/08 Underperform 3W $52.91+9.68%-5.61%-15.29
TrackJohnKeeley 96.72 12/31/07 Outperform NS $65.31-11.14%-11.67%+0.53 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackEdwardOwens 99.21 09/30/07 Outperform NS $58.56-0.90%-15.36%+14.46 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackRichPzena 22.67 09/30/07 Outperform NS $58.56-0.90%-15.36%+14.46 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackDeutscheSec 86.13 05/08/07 Outperform NS $60.24-3.67%-14.32%+10.65
TrackBearStearns 94.60 04/18/07 Outperform NS $58.98-1.60%-11.91%+10.31
TrackWachovia 78.54 04/13/07 Outperform NS $58.89-1.46%-10.86%+9.41
TrackJPMorgan 90.63 01/29/07 Outperform NS $55.06+5.39%-9.18%+14.57
TrackCreditSuiss 96.63 01/25/07 Outperform NS $55.11+5.30%-10.22%+15.52
TrackBofASec 96.75 11/01/06 Outperform NS $50.89+14.03%-6.57%+20.60

Results 1 - 13 of 13  

Beat this Stock

Clicking "Beat this Stock!" will bring you to a company with a higher rating than the one you're currently viewing.

Even though CAPS shows only one- to five-star rankings, behind the scenes, all companies in CAPS have a distinct numerical ranking. In other words, there is a No. 1 stock in CAPS and a worst-ranked stock in CAPS. When you arrive at the top-ranked stock, clicking "Beat this Stock!" will cause the page to refresh.

That is, until there is a new No. 1 stock!

These companies do not represent formal Motley Fool recommendations. Please do your own due diligence before investing. Fool on.

Featured Broker Partners