Viemed Healthcare Inc VMD

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[LongTerm3]

This is great news for the people who are long.

[esifor]

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/vmd/short-interest Short interest is up again, in the range of 4-5 days to cover now. That usually means that once the price trend reverses, and shorts

[Jonathon Brown]

Weak commodity prices and a significant sell-off among heavyweight financial shares counterbalanced gains. read article.

[JackLambert]

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240521-what-happens-when-you-stop-taking-ozempic

[JackLambert]

About to fall in Canada?   You can probably make some decent coin just on the cross rate in the next year.   As I recall we were at  77 cents in December when we came off the tsx.  

[JackLambert]

Indeed.   I hear there are also unusual irregularities in pregnancies.    It will be a while till that is all worked out.  The abuse of these meds will be significant  

[lscfa]

A major side effect of this popular new class of weight loss drugs is rapid muscle loss.  On GLP-1 drugs, patients can lose as much as 40% of their muscle mass3.   

[69andcounting]

I know we agree that you're likely fine with either!  If I had available cash I'd buy more QIPT for one reason: even at VMD's depressed price have made lots on it already.  QIPT

[JackLambert]

Right on.   You can explain the shallower growth in vent patients by the company standing back until the VA commits.    Again you don't need tens of thousands of vets to sign on

[westcoastlogger]

That prom dress might hit the floor also, when a decently enormous VA contract is announced, thus the abundance of RTs at the moment. Or something similar. In my opinion of course.

[JackLambert]

Agree.   The demographic data are not at dispute though   As LSCFA notes we have been hearing this for a while.   The revenue and head count numbers are growing nicely but it is not

[westcoastlogger]

Yes they have been saying that the market is only 5% penetrated and we hear endlessly that we have a growing grey tsunami out there also and with 11000 people/day turning 65 its just a matter of time

[lscfa]

Viemed had to expand sleep and oxygen segments because vent segment is slow. They've been telling us for 8 damn yrs that vents market is only 5% penetrated. They must be wrong.  Quipt is

[westcoastlogger]

Debating in my mind whether to deploy some cash here or QIPT. QIPT is a hell of a deal right now but on the other hand folks seem to think earnings are more important than concentrating on growth. I

[westcoastlogger]

The natural progression of a stock index. Saw an article about the history of the DOW a few years ago which was quite interesting to say the least. It had a four page pull-out graph of the last 100

[JackLambert]

Yup. 40 on the Dow.  soon we will banish gravity.