Alphabet, Vertiv, and UnitedHealth Group are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies operating within the healthcare industry, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology firms, medical device producers, and healthcare service providers such as hospitals and health insurers. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the sector’s growth potential, driven by factors like medical innovation, demographic trends, and regulatory changes. Performance can be influenced by drug approvals, patent expirations, and shifts in healthcare policy. 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.
Shares of NASDAQ GOOGL traded up $0.83 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $177.45. The company's stock had a trading volume of 14,979,391 shares, compared to its average volume of 31,726,998. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $169.67 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $173.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a current ratio of 1.77 and a quick ratio of 1.77. Alphabet has a 1 year low of $140.53 and a 1 year high of $207.05. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.15 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.23 and a beta of 1.00.
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Vertiv (VRT)
Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
NYSE VRT traded down $7.51 during trading on Thursday, reaching $120.86. 18,923,677 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 8,582,790. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.09, a quick ratio of 1.28 and a current ratio of 1.72. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $111.72 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $103.70. The stock has a market cap of $46.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 70.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.25 and a beta of 1.75. Vertiv has a 1 year low of $53.60 and a 1 year high of $155.84.
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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.
NYSE:UNH traded up $0.06 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $302.97. 7,203,008 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 7,628,340. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $318.44 and a 200-day simple moving average of $443.71. UnitedHealth Group has a 1 year low of $248.88 and a 1 year high of $630.73. The stock has a market capitalization of $274.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.69, a P/E/G ratio of 1.47 and a beta of 0.45. The company has a quick ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71.
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