BNET Industries

Quest Diagnostics Inc.

(DGX) is in the Health Care Industry

Market Cap:$10.6B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$6.7B
  • Public
  • US
Dow Jones Description

We are the nations leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, providing insights that enable physicians and other healthcare professionals to make decisions to improve health. We offer patients and physicians the broadest access to diagnostic laboratory services through our nationwide network of laboratories and our own patient service centers. We provide interpretive consultation through the largest medical and scientific staff in the industry, with approximately 900 M.D.s and Ph.D.s around the country. We are the leading provider of esoteric testing, including gene-based testing, the leading provider of anatomic pathology services, including dermatopathology, and the leading provider of testing for drugs of abuse. We are also a leading provider of testing for clinical trials and risk assessment services for the life insurance industry. We empower healthcare organizations and clinicians with state-of-the-art information technology solutions that can improve patient care and medical practice. During 2006, we generated net revenues of $6.3 billion and processed approximately 151 million requisitions for testing. Each requisition form accompanies a patient specimen, indicating the tests to be performed and the party to be billed for the tests. Our customers include patients, physicians, hospitals, employers, governmental institutions and other commercial clinical laboratories. ...

Number of Employees 42,800
Contact Information

1290 Wall St W

Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071

questdiagnostic...

1 201 393 5000

NAICS Code Medical Laboratories: 621511

Recent Events

  • Quest Diagnostics To Offer $750 Million Of Senior Notes; Begins Cash Tender Offer For Outstanding...

    11/12/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story

  • BRIEF-Moody's rates Quest Diagnostics new senior notes Baa3

    11/12/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • LabCorp 3Q Profit Rises 17% Amid Cost Controls

    10/22/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Lazard Capital Initiates Coverage on Quest Diagnostics DGX with a Hold

    10/16/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • Post a Comment

    10/21/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Whistleblower Law Firm Phillips & Cohen Selected for 2009 'Hot List' of Plaintiffs' Law Firms

    10/05/09 - Legal Settlement - View Story

  • Sector Snap: Quest and LabCorp downgraded

    9/16/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • Credit Suisse Downgrades Quest Diagnostics DGX To Neutral

    9/16/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • Quest Diagnostics Reaffirms FY09 Forecast - Update

    9/11/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Quest Diagnostics Reports Strong Earnings Growth In First Quarter 2009

    6/09/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

government and quest diagnostics inc. - All News and Analysis

advertisement
     DGX $57.75 -0.88 (-1.50% )
Intraday | 3 Month | 6 Month | 1 Year
Average Volume 1,462,920
Shares Outstanding 184.90M
Market Cap 10.7B
Year High 59.57
Year Low 42.36
Earnings Per Share 3.78
P/E Ratio 15.28
Dividend 0.40
Yield 0.69
IndustryTop Rated

Brought to you by CBS MoneyWatch.com

advertisement
  • Your Work How to Win at Office Politics

    How to Win at Office Politics

    Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn’t have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging dirt. In its purest form, office politics is simply about getting from here to there: securing a promotion, seeing an idea come to fruition, or gaining support to make an organizational change. Playing the game well is about defending your position, earning respect, exchanging favors, and keeping your sanity amid the chaos. To get started, you need to know what you really want from work, then orient your political moves toward those goals. It all starts with strong relationships and helping others; those people in return make up the support system that helps you realize your goals. Here’s how it’s done.

  • Your Industry Debt Crisis Could Leave U.A.E. Too Broke to Buy Guns

    Debt Crisis Could Leave U.A.E. Too Broke to Buy Guns

    The U.A.E. recently announced that a major investment firm is having debt issues. This has caused a fall in world stock markets and concern that the market for defense deals will not be as good as it was once thought. Many companies were looking to the Middle East to make up for domestic market problems.

  • Your Money Dumbest Things You Do With Your Money

    Dumbest Things You Do With Your Money

    Even smart people make financial moves that are downright illogical. Emotions and superstitions have a sneaky way of keeping you from rational financial decisions. But dumb choices can have serious, real-world consequences. Here are some of the biggest blunders we all make, plus tips from the experts on how to keep cool.