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Best Healthcare Stocks To Consider - October 19th

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Key Points

  • Hims & Hers Health, UnitedHealth Group, and Johnson & Johnson are highlighted as the top healthcare stocks to watch, driven by high trading volume and market interest.
  • Hims & Hers Health provides a telehealth platform for various medical services, while UnitedHealth Group offers a diversified range of health benefits and coverage services.
  • Johnson & Johnson focuses on research and development in innovative medicine and medtech, emphasizing areas like oncology and infectious diseases.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in November.

Hims & Hers Health, UnitedHealth Group, and Johnson & Johnson are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that operate in the healthcare sector — including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, hospitals and clinics, insurers, and health services. To investors, these equities provide exposure to demand driven by demographics and medical innovation but carry specific risks tied to regulation, clinical trial outcomes, patent expirations, and reimbursement policies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

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.

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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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on UNH

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Johnson & Johnson is a holding company, which engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of products in the healthcare field. It operates through the Innovative Medicine and MedTech segments. The Innovative Medicine segment focuses on immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolism, and pulmonary hypertension.

Read Our Latest Research Report on JNJ

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