Best Healthcare Stocks To Follow Today - August 20th

Key Points

• Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, and Palo Alto Networks are highlighted as key healthcare stocks to monitor based on recent trading volumes.
• UnitedHealth Group operates numerous healthcare services, including plans for diverse demographics, emphasizing care for individuals without employer-funded coverage.
• Palo Alto Networks specializes in cybersecurity solutions, providing a range of services from threat prevention to data loss prevention worldwide.

Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, and Palo Alto Networks are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in the medical and life sciences sector, including pharmaceutical firms, biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers, and healthcare service providers. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the development, production, and distribution of treatments, diagnostics, and patient care services. Performance in this sector often reflects factors such as regulatory approvals, research breakthroughs, and demographic trends like aging populations. 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.

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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.

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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.

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