SHAREHOLDER ALERT 437 0 Kommentare Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders with Losses on their Investment in CVS Health Corporation of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadline - CVS - Seite 2

On August 18, 2015, CVS Health acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares and voting interests of Omnicare for $98 per share for a total of $9.6 billion and assumed long-term debt with a fair value of approximately $3.1 billion. Additionally, holders of Omnicare restricted stock units and performance based restricted stock units received 738,765 CVS Health restricted stock awards with a fair value of approximately $80 million as replacement awards. According to CVS Health's SEC filings, the Company acquired Omnicare to expand its operations in dispensing prescription drugs to assisted-living and long-term care facilities, and to broaden its presence in the specialty pharmacy business as it sought to serve a greater percentage of the growing senior patient population in the United States.

The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operational and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) CVS Health's financial condition and expected earnings were deteriorating as a result of rising costs and poor results associated with the Omnicare Acquisition; and (ii) as a result, CVS Health's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

On February 20, 2019, CVS Health announced the Company's fourth quarter and full year financial and operating results and provided 2019 full year guidance. CVS Health advised investors that adjusted earnings in 2019 would be $6.68 to $6.88 per share, compared with the $7.36 average of market estimates, citing rising costs and poor results related to the Company's 2015 acquisition of Omnicare.

Following this news, CVS Health's stock price fell by $5.66 per share, or slightly over 8%, to close at $64.22 per share on February 20, 2019.

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