Best Financial Stocks Worth Watching - August 21st

Key Points

• Walmart, Robinhood Markets, and UnitedHealth Group are highlighted as the top financial stocks to watch, noted for their significant recent trading volumes.
• Walmart operates various retail formats including eCommerce, and is structured into three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club.
• Robinhood Markets provides a financial services platform that allows users to trade a variety of financial instruments, including cryptocurrencies and offers features like fractional trading and margin investing.

Walmart, Robinhood Markets, and UnitedHealth Group are the three Financial stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Financial stocks are shares of companies operating within the financial sector—such as banks, insurance firms, brokerage houses, asset managers, and other financial intermediaries. They represent ownership in businesses whose primary activities include lending, underwriting, asset management, and various fee-based services. The performance of financial stocks is typically driven by interest‐rate movements, regulatory changes, credit conditions, and broader economic cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Financial stocks within the last several days.

Walmart (WMT)

Walmart Inc. engages in the operation of retail, wholesale, other units, and eCommerce worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club. It operates supercenters, supermarkets, hypermarkets, warehouse clubs, cash and carry stores, and discount stores under Walmart and Walmart Neighborhood Market brands; membership-only warehouse clubs; ecommerce websites, such as walmart.com.mx, walmart.ca, flipkart.com, PhonePe and other sites; and mobile commerce applications.

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Robinhood Markets (HOOD)

Robinhood Markets, Inc. operates financial services platform in the United States. Its platform allows users to invest in stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), American depository receipts, options, gold, and cryptocurrencies. The company offers fractional trading, recurring investments, fully-paid securities lending, access to investing on margin, cash sweep, instant withdrawals, retirement program, around-the-clock trading, and initial public offerings participation services.

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UnitedHealth Group (UNH)

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health care company in the United States. The company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older addressing their needs; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance and health care programs; and health and dental benefits, and hospital and clinical services, as well as health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage.

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