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Headquartered in Burlington, NC, Labcorp Holdings, Inc. or Labcorp, is a leading healthcare diagnostics company, providing comprehensive clinical laboratory services and end-to-end drug development support. In 2015, Labcorp acquired NJ based Covance, a drug development services company providing a wide range of early stage and late-stage product development services on a worldwide basis primarily to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

LH is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock, with a Momentum Style Score of B and VGM Score of A. Shares are up 2.4% over the past one week and up 9.4% over the past four weeks. LH has gained 22.2% in the last one-year period as well. Looking at trading volume, an average of 718,396 shares exchanged hands over the last 20 trading days.

A company's earnings performance is important for momentum investors as well. For fiscal 2025, eight analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for LH, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.25 to $16.3 per share. LH also boasts an average earnings surprise of 2.5%.

LH should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.

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