{"id":26536,"date":"2012-01-11T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/11\/wellpoint-reaffirms-guidance\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:30:05","slug":"wellpoint-reaffirms-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/11\/wellpoint-reaffirms-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"WellPoint Reaffirms Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vff0132d69e01bd76782d899f024826b769d0979d&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vff0132d69e01bd76782d899f024826b769d0979d&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>WellPoint (NYSE:WLP) reaffirmed its 2011 adjusted EPS outlook Tuesday of $6.90 &#8211; $7.00, vs. consensus estimates of $7.06 while speaking to analysts.The company reports earnings on January 25th and will provide an outlook for 2012 then.The stock is up 7.4% year-to-date, while the S&#038;P Managed Health Care Index is up 23%.WellPoint (NYSE:WLP) has potential upside of 20.4% based on a current price of $71.18 and an average consensus analyst price target of $85.67.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/11\/0_ymjuquws_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/11\/0_ymjuquws_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WellPoint (NYSE:WLP) reaffirmed its 2011 adjusted EPS outlook Tuesday of $6.90 &#8211; $7.00, vs. consensus estimates of $7.06 while speaking to analysts.The company reports earnings on January 25th and will provide an outlook for 2012 then.The stock is up 7.4% year-to-date, while the S&#038;P Managed Health Care Index is up 23%.WellPoint (NYSE:WLP) has potential upside &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/11\/wellpoint-reaffirms-guidance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WellPoint Reaffirms Guidance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}