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Best Healthcare Stocks To Follow Now - May 3rd

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat names UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC) as the three healthcare stocks to watch now, selected for having the highest dollar trading volume in recent days.
  • The trio represents major subsectors: UnitedHealth (health insurer and Optum services), Johnson & Johnson (innovative medicines and MedTech), and GE HealthCare (imaging, ultrasound, patient care solutions and diagnostics).
  • Healthcare stocks offer exposure to durable demand and aging demographics but carry sector-specific risks—regulatory approvals, clinical trial outcomes, patents and reimbursement changes—that can make returns either defensive or highly volatile.
  • Five stocks we like better than UnitedHealth Group.

UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, and GE HealthCare Technologies 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 medical and health industries — including pharmaceutical and biotech firms, medical device makers, hospitals and physician groups, health insurers, and providers of medical services and supplies. For investors, they provide exposure to demand for healthcare products and innovation and to demographic tailwinds like aging populations, but they also carry sector-specific risks (regulatory approvals, clinical trial outcomes, patents, and reimbursement changes) that can make returns either relatively defensive or highly volatile depending on the subsector. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

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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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.

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GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC)

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of products, services, and complementary digital solutions used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics.

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