Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2015

Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2015: Iron Mountain Incorporated(IRM)

Iron Mountain Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, provides information management services primarily in North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers records management services, including records management program development and implementation based on best-practices to help customers comply with specific regulatory requirements; implementation of policy-based programs that feature storage for various media comprising paper; flexible retrieval access and retention management; hybrid services to help organizations gain control over their paper records; and specialized services for vital records and regulated industries, such as healthcare, energy, government, and financial services. It also provides data protection and recovery services, such as disaster preparedness; off-site vaulting of data backup media for data recovery in the event of a disaster, human error, or virus; online backup and recovery solutions for desktop and la ptop computers, and remote servers; and technology escrow services to protect and manage source code and other proprietary information. In addition, the company offers information destruction services that primarily consist of physical secure shredding operations; and is involved in the shredding of sensitive documents to third-party recyclers. Further, it provides fulfillment services that assemble custom marketing packages and orders, as well as provide reporting on customer marketing literature inventories; and professional consulting services to develop and implement comprehensive records and information management programs. Iron Mountain Incorporated serves commercial, legal, banking, health care, accounting, insurance, entertainment, and government organizations. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  J.M. Smucker (SJM) dr! opped 6.5% to $101.49 today, making it the biggest loser in the S&P 500, with Lowe’s (LOW) close behind, down 6.2% at $47.33. Other big losers include Newmont Mining (NEM), which fell 3.5% to $26.39, eBay (EBAY), which has dropped 3.3% to $50.39, and Iron Mountain (IRM), which declined 3.3% to $28.71.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Last week, the IRS gave Iron Mountain (IRM) what it wanted: REIT status. Since then, the storage company’s shares have jumped 18%–and JPMorgan thinks they could head higher.

  AP

  JPMorgan’s Andrew Steinerman and Jeffrey Volshteyn explain why they now rate Iron Mountain Overweight:

  Iron Mountain announced that it achieved IRS approval for REIT status retroactively as of January 1, 2014, completing a process that began in 2012.Iron Mountain stock leaped 20% on Thursday due to the large cash tax savings and the resulting increased dividend. We still see continued upside due to valuation as yield-oriented and REIT investors are attracted to Iron Mountain. While we recognize that Iron Mountain will not prospectively trade at a full real estate valuation (due to the services side of their business), the REIT structure should help highlight the sizable valuation gap that exists today and should narrow over time.

  Iron Mountain is much cheaper than the industrial, self storage and data center REITs that carry dividend yields of 3.6%, 3.3% and 4.6% respectively. We believe the dividend yields of prison stocks (also non-traditional REITs), which have dividend yields of 6.3%, provide downside protection to Iron Mountain.

  Prison REIT Corrections Corp of America (CXW) yields 6.2% and trades at 24.9 times earnings, whileGeo Group (GEO) yields 6.4% on a P-E ratio of 20.8 times.

  Shares of Iron Mountain have, while Correction Corp of America has and Geo Group has.

• [By Dividend]

  Iron Mountain (IRM) has a market capitalization of $4.86 billion. The company employs 17,500 people, generates reven! ue of $3.! 005 billion and has a net income of $183.49 million. Iron Mountains earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $877.77 million. The EBITDA margin is 29.21 percent (the operating margin is 18.18 percent and the net profit margin 6.11 percent).

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