{"id":317928,"date":"2025-11-30T05:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317928\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:13:25","slug":"health-care-earnings-top-sp-500-on-strong-drug-hospital-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317928\/","title":{"rendered":"Health-Care Earnings Top S&#038;P 500 on Strong Drug, Hospital Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The largest American public health-care companies outperformed other industries in the third quarter, as higher new and specialty drug use, continued demand for weight-loss drugs and strong hospital visit trends boosted earnings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Among the 11 industry categories on the S&amp;P 500, health-care companies delivered the highest percentage of earnings beats in the period. It was also the best-performing quarter in more than four years for the industry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The largest American public health-care companies outperformed other industries in the third quarter, as higher new and specialty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,1617,179351,179352,1730,8551,6202,137,500,171,68878,22606,1063,109283],"class_list":["post-317928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-cardinal-health-inc","tag-cencora-inc","tag-drugs","tag-earnings","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-markets","tag-mckesson-corp","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-sp-500-index","tag-ubs-group-ag-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}