Here are five key notes on dental companies from the last week.
Henry Schein entered into an agreement with Dental Cremer, a distributor of dental supplies and equipment, to acquire a majority ownership interest in the company. Henry Schein projects the transaction will be neutral to its 2016 earnings per share, and add $0.01 to $0.02 per share to 2017 earnings.
Danaher expects adjusted diluted net earnings per share for the first quarter of 2016 will fall in the range of $1.00 to $1.04.
On Feb. 8, DENTSPLY shares fell nearly 3.6 percent, hitting $56.87 per share, according to equities.com.
Aspen Dental opened a practice in Parma, Ohio. The practice is one of Aspen Dental's 45 Ohio offices, according to cleveland.com.
At the Health IT Conference for 2016 on Feb. 29, Carestream will showcase its mobile care module for its Clinical Collaboration Platform, which will allow providers in emergency rooms, accident sites and other locations the to connect to the imaging platform via a secure website. Caregivers will then upload the pictures to help with diagnosis and care, according to Healthcare IT News.
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