Dec 16, 2010 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the top five companies in the Health Care Distributors industry as measured by the price to book ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
China Medicine (NASDAQ:CHME) has a price to book ratio of 0.5x based on a current price of $1.55 and a book value per share of $3.27.
PharMerica (NYSE:PMC) has a price to book ratio of 0.9x based on a current price of $11.23 and a book value per share of $12.35.
Animal Health International (NASDAQ:AHII) has a price to book ratio of 1x based on a current price of $2.8 and a book value per share of $2.72.
Owens & Minor (NYSE:OMI) has a price to book ratio of 2.2x based on a current price of $28.82 and a book value per share of $13.19.
Chindex International (NASDAQ:CHDX) has a price to book ratio of 2.2x based on a current price of $17.54 and a book value per share of $7.98.
SmarTrend currently has shares of PharMerica in an Uptrend and issued the Uptrend alert on September 03, 2010 at $8.82. The stock has risen 27.3% since the Uptrend alert was issued.
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