Thursday Sector Leaders: Healthcare, Materials

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Healthcare companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 2.0%. Within the sector, Centene Corp (Symbol: CNC) and Molina Healthcare Inc (Symbol: MOH) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 11.5% and 6.2%, respectively. Among healthcare ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (Symbol: XLV), which is up 1.6% on the day, and up 2.29% year-to-date. Centene Corp, meanwhile, is down 42.4 ...