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Best Healthcare Stocks To Follow Now - October 7th

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Key Points

  • The top **healthcare stocks** to watch are **UnitedHealth Group**, **Hims & Hers Health**, and **Johnson & Johnson**, based on recent trading volume data.
  • **UnitedHealth Group** operates a diversified health care business comprising segments like **UnitedHealthcare** and **Optum**, serving various employer sizes and individual healthcare needs.
  • **Hims & Hers Health** provides a **telehealth consultation platform** that connects consumers with healthcare professionals for various health services, emphasizing mental and sexual health.
  • Interested in UnitedHealth Group? Here are five stocks we like better.

UnitedHealth Group, Hims & Hers Health, and Johnson & Johnson are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies operating in the medical and health-related industries—this includes pharmaceutical makers, biotechnology firms, medical device manufacturers, healthcare providers such as hospitals and clinics, and health insurers. For investors, these equities offer exposure to trends like demographic shifts, technological innovation, and changing regulations that can drive demand for medical products and services. 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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on UNH

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on HIMS

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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