Brookdale exec trims stake
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 7:22 amCo-President and COO John Rijos sold almost 29,000 of his shares in the senior housing company (Ticker: BKD) to help him pay taxes on the vesting of some restricted shares. The sales raised about $500,000.
Monday movers: Brookdale, Gaylord
Posted on August 10, 2009 at 10:20 amSeveral Nashville-area stocks have started their week off right, picking up on the strong end to their last week. Brookdale and Gaylord are up more than 3 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
Locals’ shares pop on profit news
Posted on August 4, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Shares of Brookdale, Gaylord and LP are up more than 16 percent after reporting second-quarter profits that topped analysts’ expectations. HealthSpring investors appear a little concerned about the company’s rising medical loss ratio.
A new boss for Brookdale majority owner
Posted on July 21, 2009 at 9:58 amDaniel Mudd, the former CEO of Fannie Mae, has been named top dog at Fortress Investment Group, the struggling asset manager whose holdings include a 60-percent in Brentwood’s Brookdale Senior Living.
SEE ALSO: Fortress’ disclosure that it plans to shed most of its Brookdale holdings.
Working off the weight
Posted on at 7:33 am
The folks at Brookdale Senior Living are a right bunch of Jareds, albeit without the endorsement deals: Over 12 weeks this spring, some 4,000 of the nursing home operator’s employees took part in a weight-loss challenge that resulted in the disappearance of more than 30,000 pounds.
Local health care names outpacing market
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 1:29 pmOn an up day for stocks, a number of Nashville-based health care companies are leading the way and outperforming their sector benchmarks. Around lunch time, shares of Psychiatric Solutions (Ticker: PSYS) are trading 8 percent higher, while hospital operator Community Health (Ticker: CYH) is up more than 5 percent. Also solidly in the plus column are LifePoint (Ticker: LPNT), America Service Group (Ticker: ASGR) and Brookdale Senior Living. (Ticker: BKD)
BofA launches coverage of health care names
Posted on June 17, 2009 at 9:39 amAnalysts at Bank of America have begun tracking a number of Middle Tennessee health care companies with mostly favorable ratings. Getting ‘buy’ recommendations are Community Health and Psych Solutions. Rated ‘neutral’ for now are Brookdale and LifePoint. The only local ‘underperform’ in BofA’s crop is AmSurg. With the exception of Brookdale, the companies’ stocks are flat or higher this morning.
Brookdale’s tally: $164M
Posted on June 9, 2009 at 8:14 amThe banks running the stock offering for the nursing home operator (Ticker: BKD) exercised their option to sell a few more shares and, after paying off a credit line, now has $39 million more to bank.
Brookdale prices offering
Posted on June 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm
The nursing home operator is selling $172 million worth of shares at $10.75 each. That’s a 13 discount to the closing price of the stock (Ticker: BKD) Monday, when the Brentwood-based company announced its plans. It’s also still more than four times the stock’s early-March low.
Brookdale raising $150M
Posted on at 8:17 amThe Brentwood-based nursing home operator (Ticker: BKD) will retire about 5 percent of its long-term debt with the proceeds with a common stock offering that could grow to $172 million. This move comes less than a month after the company filed a $1 billion shelf.
Brookdale sued over Mich. patient’s death
Posted on March 24, 2009 at 7:32 amThe family of a patient who climbed out of his room’s window is accusing the Brentwood nursing home operator of negligence.
Another nice day for HealthSpring
Posted on March 12, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Yes, the shares (Ticker: HS) are still not even back to where they began the month, but a chart like this is a start. Reaffirming earnings guidance also helps.
Also check out Brookdale (Ticker: BKD), whose investors are enjoying a similar pattern this week.
Brookdale bounces big
Posted on March 6, 2009 at 12:08 pmShares of the senior living provider (Ticker: BKD), which had fallen from $25 to less than $3 since September, are up more than a third today. Several insiders earlier this week snapped up a block of shares.
Brookdale insiders buy a little
Posted on at 12:20 amCFO Mark Ohlendorf and two directors, including local financial planner Frank Bumstead, on Wednesday invested about $215,000 in Brookdale Senior Living shares. (Ticker: BKD) Check out the Forms 4 here.
Brookdale competitor gets ‘going concern’ notice
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 4:11 pmFiling its annual report, Sunrise Senior Living (Ticker: SRZ) says it has enough cash to make it through this month, may have to file for bankruptcy protection.




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