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Lab Industry Easing Back to Financial Stability
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VIII No. 4 – March 19, 2001 Issue
IT MAY NOT BE JUBILATION, BUT THERE’S CERTAINLY LESS DESPERATION among laboratories around the United States. In travels around the country, both commercial laboratories and hospital laboratories tell THE DARK REPORT that the 2000 was unusually free of crises. It was also a more productive financia…
DIANON Systems, IMPATH, Specialty Labs, Dynacare, Quest, LabCorp
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 3 – February 26, 2001 Issue
DIANON & IMPATH REPORT 2000 EARNINGS TWO OF THE NATIONAL anatomic pathology companies reported fourth quarter earnings. Both DIANON Systems, Inc. and IMPATH, Inc. posted big gains in revenues and operating profits for 2000. At DIANON Systems, revenues r…
Two Labs Complete IPOs, AML May be Next in Line
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 1 – January 15, 2001 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: During the year 2000, investors liked the performance of clinical labs. When stock market woes surfaced this fall, it was not enough to dampen investor interest in Dynacare and Specialty Laboratories. Both companies funded their initial public stock offering in a difficult ma…
Dynacare’s Business Plan Includes New Direction
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 1 – January 15, 2001 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Look for Dynacare, Inc. to undergo a significant transformation. Although it will not abandon its efforts to partner with hospital laboratories, Dynacare has made a renewed commitment to expand and market itself as a provider of esoteric and reference testing. These changes a…
Dynacare’s IPO is Funded, Specialty Labs’ IPO is Next
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 17 – December 4, 2000 Issue
IT WAS A DISAPPOINTING TRIP to the public equity markets for Dynacare, Inc. last month. The lab company raised only $50 million in its initial public offering (IPO). Dynacare had hoped to harvest as much as $89 million from this IPO. Plans were to sell seven million shares at about …
“November 13, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VII No. 16 – November 13, 2000 Issue
Last Thursday was the day Dynacare, Inc. hoped to place its initial public offering. Dynacare seeks to raise as much as $89 million…
AML & Dynacare Next To Try a Public Offering
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 15 – October 23, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There will be plenty of competition for investors’ dollars this fall. American Medical Laboratories and Dynacare will join Specialty Laboratories in the effort to place an initial public offering (IPO). Three laboratory companies coming to market during the same period will…
IPO Is Major Strategy For American Med Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 15 – October 23, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since its acquisition in 1997, American Medical Laboratories’ fast growth was funded by heavy borrowing. Now this Virginia-based lab company needs to raise additional capital so it can restructure its debt and lay a foundation for the next cycle of growth. Its initial publi…
“October 23, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 15 – October 23, 2000 Issue
Get ready for the stock market to begin creating multi-millionaires from today’s generation of commercial laboratory executives. Most laboratorians know that Roche sold $430.5 million of its stock holding in Laboratory Corporation of America stock only seven days a…
Specialty Labs Prepares For Public Stock Offering
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 14 – October 2, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Stock prices for public lab companies zoomed upwards through 2000. For this reason, executives at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. believe it is an auspicious time for their laboratory to bring an initial public offering (IPO) to market. Company officials recently filed a stock r…
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