Profitability and risk-return comparison across health care industries, evidence from publicly traded companies 2010–2019

• Ge Bai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ge Bai, Shivaram Rajgopal, Anup Srivastava, Rong Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gbai@jhu.edu

  Affiliations Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6550-1557

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• Shivaram Rajgopal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ge Bai, Shivaram Rajgopal, Anup Srivastava, Rong Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Columbia Business School, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Anup Srivastava ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ge Bai, Shivaram Rajgopal, Anup Srivastava, Rong Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Rong Zhao

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ge Bai, Shivaram Rajgopal, Anup Srivastava, Rong Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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