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JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its position in shares of Laboratory Co. of America Holdings ( NYSE:LH – Free Report ) by 9.5% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 1,930,395 shares of the medical research company’s stock after purchasing an additional 167,137 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. owned approximately 2.31% of Laboratory Co. of America worth $431,405,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in LH. Innealta Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of Laboratory Co. of America during the 2nd quarter worth $32,000. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. boosted its stake in shares of Laboratory Co. of America by 34.5% in the 2nd quarter. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. now owns 73,321 shares of the medical research company’s stock valued at $14,922,000 after purchasing an additional 18,820 shares in the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd grew its holdings in shares of Laboratory Co. of America by 1.9% during the 2nd quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd now owns 7,800 shares of the medical research company’s stock valued at $1,587,000 after purchasing an additional 149 shares during the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp increased its position in Laboratory Co. of America by 909.5% during the 2nd quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 13,174 shares of the medical research company’s stock worth $2,681,000 after purchasing an additional 11,869 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Farther Finance Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Laboratory Co. of America by 81.1% in the 2nd quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 1,177 shares of the medical research company’s stock valued at $239,000 after purchasing an additional 527 shares during the last quarter. 95.94% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. Insider Buying and Selling In other Laboratory Co. of America news, Director Dwight Gary Gilliland sold 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $241.00, for a total transaction of $241,000.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 7,712 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,858,592. This trade represents a 11.48 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website . Also, EVP Glenn A. Eisenberg sold 11,711 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $240.43, for a total transaction of $2,815,675.73. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 31,289 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,522,814.27. The trade was a 27.23 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Insiders have sold 24,572 shares of company stock worth $5,910,209 in the last quarter. Insiders own 0.85% of the company’s stock. Analyst Ratings Changes Get Our Latest Stock Report on Laboratory Co. of America Laboratory Co. of America Stock Down 0.3 % LH stock opened at $230.43 on Friday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $233.47 and its 200 day simple moving average is $222.68. The company has a market cap of $19.27 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.57, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.91 and a beta of 1.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66, a quick ratio of 1.30 and a current ratio of 1.44. Laboratory Co. of America Holdings has a fifty-two week low of $191.97 and a fifty-two week high of $247.99. Laboratory Co. of America ( NYSE:LH – Get Free Report ) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, October 24th. The medical research company reported $3.50 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.48 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $3.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.26 billion. Laboratory Co. of America had a return on equity of 15.27% and a net margin of 3.43%. Laboratory Co. of America’s revenue for the quarter was up 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $3.38 earnings per share. On average, research analysts expect that Laboratory Co. of America Holdings will post 14.52 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Laboratory Co. of America Dividend Announcement The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 13th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, November 26th were given a dividend of $0.72 per share. This represents a $2.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.25%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, November 26th. Laboratory Co. of America’s payout ratio is presently 55.71%. Laboratory Co. of America Profile ( Free Report ) Labcorp Holdings Inc provides laboratory services. It operates through two segments, Diagnostics Laboratories and Biopharma Laboratory Services. The company offers various tests, such as blood chemistry analyses, urinalyses, blood cell counts, thyroid, PAP, hemoglobin A1C and vitamin D, prostate-specific antigens, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis C, microbiology cultures and procedures, and alcohol and other substance-abuse tests. Recommended Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding LH? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Laboratory Co. of America Holdings ( NYSE:LH – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Laboratory Co. of America Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Laboratory Co. of America and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Netflix continues to express confidence that its streaming platform is prepared to handle the massive audiences expected for a pair of Christmas Day NFL games along with the start of its live coverage of the World Wrestling Entertainment's "Raw" next month. Concerns were raised after users experienced issues with buffering and low quality feeds during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson boxing match last month. Netflix has exclusive rights to stream NFL games on Christmas Day between the Kansas City Chiefs at the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens at the Houston Texans. Beyonce is scheduled to perform during halftime of the Ravens-Texans game, which could create more server traffic Netflix must take into account. It's a major test after the company reported an average global live audience of 108 million viewers for Paul's victory over Tyson in Arlington, Texas. Downdetector.com , which tracks service outages, announced that there were 90,000 issues reported at one point. "It was a big number, but you don't know, and you can't learn these things until you do them, so you take a big swing," Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria told Front Office Sports. "Our teams and our engineers are amazing, moved super quickly, and stabilized it, and many of the members had it back up and running pretty quickly. But we learn from these things. "We've all obviously done a lot of stuff to learn and get ready for the NFL and Beyonce, and so we're totally ready and excited for WWE." WWE president Nick Khan told FOS that Raw's tone and content will not change as it moves to the streaming service, with its first event of 2025 scheduled for Jan. 6. "There's some online chatter about, ‘oh, it's going to be R-rated, or for us old folks, X-rated.' That's definitely not happening," Khan said. "It's family-friendly, multi-generational, advertiser-friendly programming. It's going to stay that way. I would look for more global flair, especially as the relationship continues to develop." --Field Level Media
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President Donald Trump is returning to the White House, convinced – after a close encounter with an assassin’s bullet – that he had God on his side in the election. While opinions differed on that theological question, Trump clearly drew strong support from voters who frequented pews. In Washington Post exit polls, he received 56 percent of the Catholic votes, while 41 percent backed Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2020, 52 percent of self-identified Catholics supported Joe Biden, with 47 percent for Trump. As always, Trump fared well with Protestants and “other Christians,” with 62 percent supporting him, as opposed to 37 percent for Harris. She won 60 percent of the votes of non-Christian believers, while Trump had 33 percent – up 4 percent from his showing in 2020. Thus, members of Religion News Association selected the 2024 presidential election as the year’s top national religion story. The 2024 poll of religion-news professionals was dominated by analysis of national and international news, as opposed to specific headlines and events, with a strong emphasis on trends among religious conservatives. Yet, Trump’s wins among religious believers – as well as gains among Latinos and Black men – were only one side of this drama, stressed Jessica Grose of the New York Times opinion staff. Democrats should note the “large and growing religious group that is already in their corner: the Nones,” she noted, referring to religiously unaffiliated Americans. “According to new data from the Public Religion Research Institute ... 72 percent of the religiously unaffiliated voted for Kamala Harris. Melissa Deckman, the chief executive of PRRI, shared a more granular breakdown of unaffiliated voters with me over email: 82 percent of atheists, 80 percent of agnostics and 64 percent of those who said they had no particular faith voted for Harris.” However, key voters rejected Democratic Party stands on many cultural and moral issues, noted Ruy Teixeira, a veteran Democrat strategist. In a Blueprint2024 survey, the top reason “swing” voters gave for rejecting Harris was that she seemed “more focused on transgender issues” than middle-class needs. Thus, one Trump ad proclaimed: “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for YOU.” Writing for The Free Press, Teixeira noted clashes on similar hot-button issues. He concluded: “If the Democrats’ liability on a range of cultural issues is so clear, why do so many party members refuse to admit the obvious problem?” The RNA national-news Top 10 list included: (2) Nearly two-thirds of Jews surveyed said they felt less safe in 2024, facing tensions over the Israel-Hamas war and increased news reports about antisemitic speech, especially at colleges and universities, as well as increased verbal and physical violence, including the shooting of a Jew walking to a Chicago synagogue. (3) Fighting in the Middle East strained support for Democrats among Jews and Muslims. Debates raged about the party’s support for Israel, while Muslims denounced ongoing U.S. support and weapons supplies to Israel. (4) In church-state news, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public classrooms, and Oklahoma’s top education official told schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons. Meanwhile, debates continue on “parental rights” claims on many moral questions, especially transgender issues. (5) Concerns rose among progressive activists about the power of “Christian nationalism” in American life, leading to a surge in press coverage. (6) The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children. Facing a backlash – even among political conservatives – Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation shielding in vitro fertilization providers from liability. (7) Activists noted rising reports of Islamophobia linked to the Gaza war. The Biden administration announced policies against anti-Muslim bias and hate crimes. (8) In seven states, voters expanded or reinforced abortion access. In three states, voters upheld abortion restrictions, the first to do so by referendum since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. (9) After decades of fierce doctrinal debate, the shrinking United Methodist Church repealed its stance that homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching” and backed openly LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex marriages. (10) America’s increasingly fluid religious chemistry became obvious in politics, the RNA noted, with “Kamala Harris, a progressive Baptist married to a Jewish man and influenced by the religions of her mother’s native India” facing “Donald Trump, a non-denominational Christian with strong support from evangelicals and married to a Catholic.” Also, there was J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert married to a Hindu, and Tim Walz, a former Catholic who joined the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Terry Mattingly is Senior Fellow on Communications and Culture at Saint Constantine College in Houston. He lives in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and writes Rational Sheep, a Substack newsletter on faith and mass media.RALEIGH, N.C. — Bill Belichick, cutting the sleeves off an Alexander Julian plaid blazer. Bill Belichick, responding to boosters’ grinning back-slaps with a scowl and, “We’re on to Georgia Tech.” Bill Belichick, trying on Mack Brown’s old sideline puffy coat for size. Bill Belichick, being asked to shake the hand of a human dressed as a toaster pastry. Bill Belichick, adding the entire lacrosse team to the football roster to play special teams. Can you imagine? JONES ANGELL: “Welcome back everyone to Bill Belichick Live. Say, Bill, what’s your favorite appetizer here at Top of the Hill?” BELICHICK: “Yeah, I’m not going to discuss that.” North Carolina will miss out on all of that wonderful stuff if it doesn’t lock down a deal with Belichick to replace Brown as football coach, something that seemed imminent over the weekend but continues to dangle in the breeze. North Carolina should be so lucky as to have it fall apart. This already has disaster written all over it, from the too-many-cooks hiring process to the transparent competing leaks from each camp: Belichick to NFL insiders, the trustees and boosters to political reporters. This circus has a lot of clowns and no tent. Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get any more absurd at North Carolina than Brown burning a career’s worth of bridges in Chapel Hill by insisting he would be back next season only to be informed the next day he would not, here comes an NFL legend who couldn’t land an NFL job last cycle, with absolutely no NCAA experience in that lengthy career, as the top candidate to replace him. Imagine the kind of privileged bubble you’d have to live in to be able to convince yourself that, after firing a genial 73-year-old coach who seemed to be losing his grasp on the rapidly changing world of college football, a surly 72-year-old with little or no grasp on college football is the right guy to replace him. Why not dig up Knute Rockne’s corpse and drag it around, like Weekend at Bernie’s? This is such a bad idea that even if it were to happen and somehow work out, it would still be an objectively bad idea even with 20-20 hindsight. Even if no one else wants the job, whether for football reasons or having to submit TPS reports to eight different bosses, this is an absurd place to land. North Carolina is willing to settle for someone who counts as family because his dad was a Tar Heels assistant coach for three years some 70 years ago, who has spent one fall observing his son as an assistant coach at Washington and is therefore an expert on the college game despite actually never coaching in it, whose NFL dynasty fizzled as soon as Tom Brady tapped out, whose coaching tree has had little success. (Two branches of it actually sprouted in the ACC: Al Groh and Bill O’Brien). And forget about UNC for a second: With all the nonsense that comes along with being a college head coach, it’s fair to wonder whether Belichick has fully thought this through, either. Two words: Mayo bath. What’s in this for him? If he wants to prove his late decline in New England wasn’t a fluke, the NFL is the place to do that. Beating Charlotte doesn’t count toward breaking Don Shula’s record. Beating the Panthers does. Brown may have been out of coaching for a little while when he returned to North Carolina, but he at least had won something at the NCAA level, knew the school inside and out and was (and remains) as avuncular as Belichick is gruff. Once again, the folks in power at North Carolina fell in love with a big-name trophy coach, but Belichick’s name only means anything to people like them. The oldest recruits in this cycle were 12 years old when Belichick last won anything. These kids don’t even know who he is, other than maybe the guy whose dog was apparently drafting for him during covid. In Belichick’s defense, he does know the game of football as well as anyone on the planet and wouldn’t take the job without the financial backing to buy a decent team — no doubt at the continued expense of funds for basketball, which just lost out on the nation’s top recruit to BYU of all places — and if he’s got any tricks left up his absent sleeves, he might be able to find inefficiencies in recruiting, the transfer portal and on the field that college coaches have heretofore missed. It’s not like there are any NCAA rules left to break. But that’s a lot of maybes, and there are fundamental aspects of the college game — like sucking up to high-school coaches, making nice with the faculty and getting players out of the film room to go to class — that would be entirely foreign to Belichick. Whereas an up-and-coming college coach might have been able to build on the foundation Brown left behind — Jeff Monken is still out there, and wouldn’t it be something if UNC eventually blundered into what might be the best possible hire — this feels like it would be a ground-up rebuild of the entire operation. If Belichick really did submit a 400-page blueprint, and nothing’s ever gone wrong with a lengthy manifesto from a guy known for wearing a hoodie, it certainly suggests so. There are only two reasons someone like Belichick wants a job like this: He’s running away from something, or he’s got no place else to go. Unlike Norman Dale at Hickory High, there’s no Jimmy Chitwood waiting in the wings to save him. If this falls through, both sides should be relieved, not aggrieved.India not 'lucky' on security front, stay vigilant against enemies: Rajnath Singh to Armymen
Tourism moot planned next monthParis, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Dec, 2024) and face off in Ligue 1 this weekend as two of French 's most storied clubs prepare to meet twice in the space of a fortnight. Les Verts, whose 10 French titles is second only to , were also drawn to face in the last 64 of the French Cup just before . Back in the flight after two seasons in the second division, have relied heavily on their home form to stay afloat this term. have won four of their last five at their Geoffroy-Guichard stadium, where they have collected but one of their 13 points so far. Last weekend they crashed to a 5-0 loss at after being reduced to 10 men before half-time. "There will be other obstacles, and big ones. We have a very tough season ahead, we know that," said Olivier Dall'Oglio in the wake of that defeat. "When there are challenges of that type, we're going to need to overcome them and not collapse like I saw the team collapse." , conversely, have thrived on their travels and have the league's away record with six wins seven matches. Roberto De Zerbi's side climbed above into second place with a 2-1 win last and sit six points back of leaders . Luis Enrique's side face another critical juncture in their season, travelling to on Friday before a trip to next week in the Champions League. are unbeaten in their last 30 away games in Ligue 1 but were held at home by a struggling team last weekend. With just one win in five in , find themselves outside the 24 qualifying spots for the knockout stages. "We've made mistakes in terms of our performances in the Champions League but it's a good season," the Spaniard said Thursday. "Our problems are good ones because we can push past them. These don't reflect what I've seen on the pitch. " Luis Enrique also moved to quash talk of dressing room discord, dismissing claims of tensions between himself and some players. "I'm not going to respond to rumours and lies," he said. "The team is wonderful and I have nothing to add." and , both of whom are well positioned to advance in the Champions League, meet on Friday before -- who also have 10 points five games in -- host on Saturday. Player to watch: Randal Kolo Muani The international's stock has dropped alarmingly at , to the extent that he has played a total of 33 minutes over the past six league games -- four of which he has not even featured in. The 26-year-old was signed Eintracht for 90 ($95 ) at the start of last season but has not started for the club since the 1-1 draw with on 6, sowing doubt over his future as the transfer window approaches. "It's a difficult period for everyone because we'll have to see what we need in terms of buying players and evaluate those who want to leave," Luis Enrique said on Thursday. "But I hope right up until the end these players will convince me they deserve to play." Key stats 4 - successive home wins for , the longest active streak in Ligue 1. The promoted side have won fix of six this season at the Stade Abbe-Deschamps 10 - matches without a win for Nantes 13 - games unbeaten for in competitions Fixtures ( times GMT) Friday v (1800), v (2000) Saturday v (1600), v (1800), v (2000) Sunday Lens v (1400), v , v (both 1600), v (1945)
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