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Pat: What is your opinion on buying CML HealthCare stock?

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CML HealthCare Inc., $9.48, symbol CLC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 89.8 million; Market cap: $851.3 million; www.cmlhealthcare.com), was called CML HealthCare Income Fund before it converted from an income trust to a corporation on January 4, 2011. CML (or Canadian Medical Laboratories) is one of Canada’s largest health-care diagnostic services providers. It has two main divisions: Laboratory Services and Imaging Services. Laboratory Services, which provides 65% of CML’s revenue, performs a wide range of medical tests through its Ontario laboratory network, which consists of 115 specimen-collection centres and the company’s central laboratory in Mississauga. CML’s large network of labs lets it take advantage of economies of scale that are not available to smaller labs. About 95% of the company’s lab revenues come from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (more on that below). Imaging Services, which supplies 35% of CML’s revenue, provides medical-imaging services, such as magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), X-ray, ultrasound and mammography. The company provides these services through…