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Best Healthcare Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - August 11th

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Key Points

  • Major healthcare stocks to watch include Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, and Oracle, identified for their high trading volumes and potential growth within the healthcare sector.
  • UnitedHealth Group has a current market cap of $230.23 billion and traded at $253.80, with a twelve month high of $630.73.
  • Hims & Hers Health operates a telehealth platform and currently has a market capitalization of $11.36 billion, trading at $50.77 with a one year high of $72.98.
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Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, Oracle, Salesforce, C3.ai, Palo Alto Networks, and Hims & Hers Health are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that provide medical goods, services, or technologies—such as pharmaceutical firms, medical device manufacturers, hospital operators, biotech companies, and health insurers. Investors buy and sell these stocks to gain exposure to the healthcare sector’s growth potential, which can be driven by factors like aging populations, medical innovation, and regulatory changes. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

Alphabet (GOOGL)

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube.

NASDAQ GOOGL traded down $0.43 during midday trading on Monday, hitting $200.99. The company had a trading volume of 13,912,519 shares, compared to its average volume of 36,778,461. Alphabet has a twelve month low of $140.53 and a twelve month high of $207.05. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $180.89 and a 200-day moving average price of $172.80. The company has a current ratio of 1.90, a quick ratio of 1.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07. The company has a market capitalization of $2.43 trillion, a PE ratio of 21.42, a P/E/G ratio of 1.36 and a beta of 1.01.

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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.

UNH stock traded up $2.91 during trading on Monday, reaching $253.80. 7,270,990 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 12,070,654. The firm has a market cap of $230.23 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.99, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.62 and a beta of 0.43. UnitedHealth Group has a twelve month low of $234.60 and a twelve month high of $630.73. The firm's 50 day moving average is $291.78 and its 200 day moving average is $405.18. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73.

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Oracle (ORCL)

Oracle Corporation offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments worldwide. Its Oracle cloud software as a service offering include various cloud software applications, including Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise performance management, Oracle Fusion cloud supply chain and manufacturing management, Oracle Fusion cloud human capital management, Oracle Cerner healthcare, Oracle Advertising, and NetSuite applications suite, as well as Oracle Fusion Sales, Service, and Marketing.

Shares of Oracle stock traded up $3.88 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $253.93. The company had a trading volume of 5,211,095 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,998,016. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07, a current ratio of 0.75 and a quick ratio of 0.75. Oracle has a one year low of $118.86 and a one year high of $260.87. The firm has a market cap of $713.25 billion, a PE ratio of 58.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.73 and a beta of 1.43. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $222.64 and a 200 day simple moving average of $177.75.

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Salesforce (CRM)

Salesforce, Inc. provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.

Shares of NYSE:CRM traded down $5.46 on Monday, reaching $235.05. 4,070,756 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,080,278. The company has a current ratio of 1.07, a quick ratio of 1.07 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The stock has a market capitalization of $224.70 billion, a P/E ratio of 36.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 1.37. Salesforce has a 52 week low of $230.00 and a 52 week high of $369.00. The business's 50-day simple moving average is $263.47 and its 200 day simple moving average is $278.75.

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C3.ai (AI)

C3.ai, Inc. operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software company in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company provides C3 AI platform, an application development and runtime environment that enables customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI applications; C3 AI Ex Machina for analysis-ready data; C3 AI CRM, an industry specific customer relationship management solution; and C3 Generative AI Product Suite that enables to locate, retrieve, and present information.

Shares of AI stock traded down $5.24 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $16.89. 52,298,934 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,710,875. The stock's fifty day simple moving average is $25.26 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $24.72. C3.ai has a 12-month low of $14.70 and a 12-month high of $45.08. The stock has a market cap of $2.27 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -7.51 and a beta of 1.98.

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Palo Alto Networks (PANW)

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, a security management solution for the global control of network security platform as a virtual or a physical appliance. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, URL filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, DNS security, Internet of Things security, SaaS security API, and SaaS security inline, as well as threat intelligence, and data loss prevention.

PANW traded up $1.95 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $169.01. 5,174,304 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 6,061,506. The stock has a market capitalization of $112.70 billion, a P/E ratio of 96.53, a P/E/G ratio of 3.96 and a beta of 0.94. Palo Alto Networks has a 52-week low of $144.15 and a 52-week high of $210.39. The company's fifty day moving average price is $194.23 and its 200-day moving average price is $186.91.

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Hims & Hers Health (HIMS)

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. operates a telehealth consultation platform. It connects consumers to healthcare professionals, enabling them to access medical care for mental health, sexual health, dermatology and primary care. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hims & Hers Health stock traded down $1.17 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $50.77. The stock had a trading volume of 16,696,423 shares, compared to its average volume of 34,236,719. The firm's 50 day moving average is $53.66 and its 200 day moving average is $45.15. Hims & Hers Health has a one year low of $13.47 and a one year high of $72.98. The firm has a market capitalization of $11.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 63.47, a P/E/G ratio of 3.29 and a beta of 2.08. The company has a current ratio of 4.98, a quick ratio of 4.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.72.

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