Vantaggi
Company is on the up because of new United contract to go in place in 2019. New management with Steve r did a relatively good job of replacing most of senior management that drove quest down below labcorp. Stock price is high which boggles my mind since quest doesn’t actually make any product. It just runs blood lab results.
Svantaggi
As someone here already mentioned there were quite a few lay offs because of Medicare diagnostic rates being cut 15 percent . People are nice here but that can also translate to nothing is getting done. Everything at quest is broken and while things are being fixed it’s still broken in the inside. There are tiny dollars for r&d and there’s not much innovation - just acquisition. Areas I would stay away from are public policy which in non existent, medical affairs which is a relatively new function, marketing - you can’t do much with the dollars here, analytics if you are fine with running a million databases to find the answer and some functions of finance. Do your research!