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Good morning. Could you provide a current opinion of Catamaran Corporation?

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Catamaran Corp., $49.60, symbol CTRX on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 204.7 million; Market cap: $10.2 billion; www.catamarancorp.com), is a pharmacy benefits manager. (These companies negotiate discounts from pharmaceutical firms so their clients—employers—can provide drug benefits to their workers with less cost.) Catamaran also provides information technology services to the health care benefits management industry. The company bought Catalyst Health Solutions for $4.4 billion in July 2012. It then changed its name to Catamaran from SXC Health Solutions Corp. The combined business is now the fourth-largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S. by prescription volume: it manages over 250 million prescriptions each year on behalf of 25 million customers. In the three months ended September 30, 2013, Catamaran’s revenue rose 13.3%, to $3.6 billion from $3.2 billion a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, earnings per share jumped to $0.52 from $0.25, beating the consensus estimate of $0.48. Catamaran holds cash of $436.2 million, or $2.13 a share. Its $976.6 million of long-term debt is…