Is My Nose Bleeding? I Just Got “Einhorned”: CIGNA Corporation (CI), Ventas, Inc. (VTR), Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)

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If individual stocks aren’t part of your risk-reward fabric, the HealthCare Select Sector SPDR, which sports a 2% yield, might be a less volatile, more secure holding for consideration. Neither of the 2 stocks mentioned above are in the top 10 holdings, those spots are reserved for dividend dynamos, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) that occupy the first 2 positions. But even those high-yielders (3.3% and 3.5%, respectively) check in just below the yield Ventas offers loyal shareholders.

Einhorn clearly has me in a stock headlock with the percentage gain (19% to 6% since our October 2012 mentions). But until my name carries enough weight to be used as a verb, that doesn’t surprise me. As time keeps on ticking, though, I still prefer both Ventas and the Health Care ETF over Cigna.

The article Is My Nose Bleeding? I Just Got “Einhorned” originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Kyle Metivier.

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