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Healthcare Facilities
Definition
Healthcare Facilities represents the healthcare facilities industry for Balance Sheet Operating Metrics information collected by Reuters. The Healthcare Facilities Industry consists of:
Companies engaged in operating hospitals, physician and dental clinics, psychiatric facilities, nursing homes and home health care agencies
Medical laboratories that support healthcare facilities such as blood analysis, pathology, urinalysis, medical x-ray and other diagnostic laboratories.
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Healthcare Facilities
Definition
Healthcare Facilities represents the healthcare facilities industry for Income Statement Operating Metrics information collected by Reuters. This includes all the operating indicators for the healthcare facilities industry, reported by the company.
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Hedge Fund Definition
Definition
Hedge Fund investors have the majority of their funds invested in some sort of market neutral strategy. Notably, the term 'hedge fund' is both a legal structure (as opposed to a mutual fund) and an investment style. Nearly every firm that uses a hedge fund or market neutral style is legally organized as a hedge fund (and thus only open to accredited investors). Many are offshore funds that are unregistered, have no investment limitations, and are not subject to disclosure regulations. The common element is that any long position taken in a specific equity is offset by a short position in either a merger partner (risk arbitrage), an 'overvalued' member of the same sector (long/short paired trading), a convertible bond (convertible arbitrage), a futures contract (index arbitrage) or an option contract (volatility arbitrage). Because of the idiosyncratic nature of these investors, the fundamentals of their portfolios are not indicative of their investment styles. Thomson Reuters categorizes these portfolios based on its specific knowledge of the their historical investment behavior.
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High
Definition
This is the day's highest price of a security that has changed hands between a buyer and seller.
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Hold Recommendation
Definition
The recommendation that investors maintain their current position in a stock. This generally indicates that the stock should perform similarly to other comparable stocks.
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Hotels/Gaming
Definition
Hotels/ Gaming represents the hotels/gaming industry for Balance Sheet Operating Metrics information collected by Reuters.

The Hotels/ Gaming Industry consists of:
Hotels, Motels & Cruise Lines companies engaged in the operation of hotels, bed and breakfast inns, motels, cabins, cottages, youth hostels, cruise lines and other tourist and boarding lodges.
Casinos & Gaming of companies engaged in casinos and gambling operations.

Companies The Hotels/ Gaming Industry excludes:
Ski resorts and amusement parks with resort owned hotel service, where the ski or amusement operation comprises the dominant operation (classified under the Leisure & Recreation Industry)
Horse and dog race tracks (classified under the Leisure & Recreation Industry).
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Hotels/Gaming
Definition
Hotels/ Gaming represents the hotels/ gaming industry for Income Statement Operating Metrics information collected by Reuters. This includes all the operating indicators for the hotels/ gaming industry, reported by the company.
Term
Impairment-Assets Held for Sale
Definition
Impairment – Assets Held for Sale is a form of an unusual item related to the impairment of long-lived assets, certain identifiable intangibles, and goodwill related to those assets. These items are assets that will be sold by the reporting company.
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Impairment-Assets Held for Sale, Supplemental
Definition
This item is a form of an unusual item related to the impairment of long-lived assets, certain identifiable intangibles, and goodwill related to those assets. These items are assets that will be sold by the reporting company. It also includes the Impairment/write-down/write-off/revaluation of inventories and investment securities.
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Impairment-Assets Held for Use
Definition
Impairment – Assets Held for Use is a form of an unusual item related to the impairment of long-lived assets, certain identifiable intangibles, and goodwill related to those assets. These assets are retained by the reporting company.