UnitedHealth Beats Estimates – Analyst Blog
Zacks Market Commentaries (January 21st, 2010) Writes:
UnitedHealth Group’s (UNH) fourth quarter earnings of 81 cents per share were well ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 73 cents. Results were also ahead of the prior-year period’s earnings of 60 cents. The better-than-expected results reflected strong contributions from the health services businesses and the public and senior health benefits program.
For the full year, revenue rose to $87.14 billion from $81.19 billion in the prior year. Earnings per share came in at $3.24, ahead of the management’s guidance of $3.15.
Total revenues during the quarter increased 6.5% year-over-year to $21.8 billion. The increase was primarily driven by an increase in premium revenues in the Health Care Services segment due to strong organic growth in risk-based offerings in public and senior markets businesses and premium rate increases in response to growth in underlying medical costs.
Medical costs during the quarter increased 6.8% year-over-year to due to a growth in public
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