Investors might be tempted to take profits in Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC). After all, TDOC stock has gained 900% from its 2016 lows. And it certainly looks expensive. The provider of virtual healthcare services now has a market capitalization over $8 billion.Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com Yet Teladoc isn't profitable, and likely won't be until 2022. Shares trade at a whopping 11x next year's revenue estimates.But the stock shouldn't be cheap. It provides a long-term opportunity for growth that few companies in this market can match. Most, if not all, of those companies have been huge winners. Electric vehicle growth has driven Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to stunning levels. Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) has been perhaps the market's best stock over the past year.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsThose companies, too, faced valuation concerns -- and short sellers. Indeed, roughly 30% of TDOC stock is sold short at the moment. * 7 Earnings Reports to Watch Next Week Investors have been best-served, however, by ignoring the shorts and even Wall Street. Growth has trumped valuation at every turn in this bull market. Teladoc's growth is going to be explosive. The Telehealth OpportunityUnsurprisingly, Teladoc Health has jumped out to an early lead in telehealth. The company, after all, was founded by veterans of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration after that agency pioneered remote health services for astronauts at the International Space Station.Since its founding in 2002, Teladoc has become the unquestioned leader in telehealth. Its market share reportedly sits near 75%. The company offers some 450 medical subspecialties, and completed 2.6 million visits worldwide in 2018. That latter figure should rise over 50% in 2019, based on current company's guidance.Teladoc's customers already include health insurance providers like Aetna (NYSE:AET), UnitedHealth (NYSE:UHC) and several Blue Cross Blue Shield companies. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and General Mills (NYSE:GIS) headline the company's roster of employers.Teladoc clearly has the "first mover advantage" in telehealth. And it's going to be a fast-growing market.Younger millennial consumers won't want to visit a doctor's office any more than they want to visit a brick-and-mortar retailer. They can virtually visit a doctor on the Teladoc app in a median time of just ten minutes.Rural patients face long driving distances and/or a lack of specialized providers. Telehealth can be a literal lifesaver for them.Even our company's mental health crisis could be ameliorated via telemedicine. Simply put, Teladoc's service can deliver better care to more patients in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. Is TDOC Stock Too Expensive?Again, Teladoc Health isn't cheap. That might worry some investors. But the company has plenty of room to grow into -- and beyond -- the current valuation.After all, the potential market here is enormous. Back in 2017, Teladoc Health estimated its addressable market in the U.S. at $29 billion.That was before the company acquired Advance Medical in 2018, which helped expand the company worldwide. As of the end of 2018, Teladoc operated in over 130 countries and more than 20 languages, according to its Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Revenue for 2020 is likely to be less than $700 million. That in turn suggests Teladoc has penetrated less than 3% of its potential market just in the U.S. As the company noted in a presentation last month, there are 75 million potential users as current U.S. clients. Teladoc's total user base at the moment is just 54 million.If the U.S. market is $30 billion and the global market $50 billion or more, what happens if Teladoc holds even 30% market share? Or 60%?In either scenario, an $8 billion market value won't look "expensive" in retrospect. It will look like a gift. Stick With the WinnerI've been recommending Teladoc Health going back to 2018. All that has changed since then is its valuation. TDOC stock has gained 68% since mid-2018.But I believe the company, and the stock, are just getting started. There are few better opportunities out there, where an investor can own the unchallenged leader in an industry with decades of growth ahead.Tesla is one. Shopify another. Those stocks have risen by multiples of their former share prices -- and faced valuation concerns the entire way. 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The law firm of Squitieri & Fearon, LLP announces it is investigating a potential class action on behalf of former employees of Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET) who held Aetna stock in the Company's retirement and pension plans and received CVS stock (NYSE:CVS) for those shares when CVS acquired Aetna.
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Senior Judge Richard Leon sent shares in drug store chain CVS (NYSE:CVS) lower after saying he might try to stop its $69 billion merger with Aetna (NYSE:AET), a health insurer. CVS announced the deal in December 2017. Since then, CVS stock is down over 25%. It was due to open for trade June 12 at about $54 per share. CVS' market cap of $70 billion is now just 36% of its 2018 revenue, which was $194 billion.Source: Mike Mozart via FlickrLeon told CVS' and Aetna's lawyers to "cancel their summer vacation," arguing the Department of Justice barely considered what adding 21 million customers could do for CVS' Caremark, a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM).Oral arguments will be held July 17, a ruling coming shortly after. CVS has already agreed to sell its Medicare Part D plan, the only overlap with Aetna, to Wellcare, which in turn is being bought by Centene (NYSE:CNC).InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips The Question of CostsCentene's involvement begs the main question raised by the merger, which is whether the deal can cut healthcare costs.Centene's market advantage is cost visibility. Its business model is to profit in Medicare and Medicaid by owning clinics and other facilities its covered patients use. It was a big winner on the Obamacare exchanges, where it could offer much lower prices than standard insurance plans.The American Hospital Association opposes the CVS-Aetna merger, while supporting mergers between hospital groups, arguing that hospitals aren't the cause of health care inflation. * 10 Stocks That Every 30-Year-Old Should Buy and Hold Forever They're right. Drugs are. Combining PBMs and insurers is how the industry is fighting drug costs.CVS plans to turn 1,500 stores into "HealthHubs," after the merger, with labs, nurses and dieticians to treat chronic conditions like diabetes, representing 75% of America's health care bill.CVS has been preparing itself for a favorable outcome since February, when it reached the agreement with the Department of Justice Judge Leon is now reviewing. The Question of CompetitionLeon's objections are centered on Caremark, but that unit's problems were behind the merger in the first place.The PBM model was upended four years ago when UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), the largest private insurer, bought Catamaran, another PBM, for its own OptumRx unit.The deal made the stand-alone PBM market untenable. Since then, Express Scripts, the largest PBM, was acquired by Cigna (NYSE:CI), an Aetna rival. That merger, and the CVS-Aetna tie-up, followed failed attempts by Aetna to merge with Humana (NYSE:HUM) and by Cigna to merger with Anthem (NASDAQ:ANTM). Having failed at horizontal mergers because of their size (despite UnitedHealth being bigger than either combination), the second-tier players moved toward vertical mergers, hoping to compete through cost control.Thus, Leon seems intent on stopping a train that has already left the station. UnitedHealth, Centene and Cigna own PBMs, and he's going to stop CVS-Aetna because CVS owns one? The Bottom Line on CVS StockNot all mergers work. CVS' own acquisition of Omnicare, a long-term care provider, caused it take a $3.9 billion write-down in the second quarter of last year, and a net loss for all of 2018. * 7 U.S. Stocks to Buy With Limited Trade War Exposure But given how far insurers have gone along the road to matching income with outgo, the Aetna merger was looking like a winner. The delays have pushed CVS shares down enough to give its 50 cent per share dividend a yield of 3.82%, even though absent of write-offs, it covers that dividend with earnings two to three times over each year.The Leon delay looks like a good opportunity for income investors to grab a bargain.Dana Blankenhorn is a financial and technology journalist. He is the author of the mystery thriller, The Reluctant Detective Finds Her Family, available at the Amazon Kindle store. Write him at danablankenhorn@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter at @danablankenhorn. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. More From InvestorPlace * 4 Top American Penny Pot Stocks (Buy Before June 21) * 7 High-Quality Cheap Stocks to Buy With $10 * 7 U.S. Stocks to Buy With Limited Trade War Exposure * 6 Growth Stocks That Could Be the Next Big Thing Compare Brokers The post Can CVS Stock Overcome the Latest Wrench in Its Aetna Merger? appeared first on InvestorPlace.
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