Article: Pennsylvania Hospital Firm's Timing Pays Off with Initial Public Offering.

By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 6--On Tuesday, when the stock market was in the dumps, officials at Select Medical Corp. decided to hold off on pricing the company's initial public stock offering.

Yesterday, with the schizoid market riding high, the Lower Allen Twp.-based provider of hospital and rehabilitation services braved the waters and was rewarded with a modest surge of its stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

After being priced late Wednesday at $9.50 a share, Select Medical stock began trading at 10:45 a.m. Thursday under the ticker symbol SLMC. It ended the day at $10.12[1/2] a ...

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