3 Healthcare Stocks With Rising Expectations

If you're looking for stocks largely unaffected by international trade tensions, you'll find the healthcare sector's full of them. In fact, Flexion Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FLXN), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) recently surprised investors by raising their 2019 earnings estimates above figures provided earlier this year.

Raising forward guidance halfway through the year is usually a positive signal. Before getting too excited, though, let's take a closer look at these businesses and the sources of their optimism to see if they can keep growing.

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