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Best Healthcare Stocks To Keep An Eye On - August 31st

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Key Points

  • Alphabet, Oracle, and UnitedHealth Group are highlighted as the top healthcare stocks to monitor, reflecting a significant increase in trading volume recently.
  • Alphabet Inc. is transitioning from a laggard to an AI leader, showing promise for investors in the evolving tech and healthcare sectors.
  • UnitedHealth Group operates as a diversified health care company, offering a range of services across four key segments, including health benefit plans for individuals and enterprises.
  • MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by October 1st.

Alphabet, Oracle, 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 in the healthcare sector, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, health services and insurance providers. Investors in these stocks gain exposure to the development, approval and distribution of medical treatments and technologies as well as demographic and policy-driven demand for healthcare. Performance in this segment is often influenced by regulatory decisions, research breakthroughs and changes in reimbursement or insurance frameworks. 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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Oracle (ORCL)

Oracle Corporation offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments worldwide. Its Oracle cloud software as a service offering include various cloud software applications, including Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise performance management, Oracle Fusion cloud supply chain and manufacturing management, Oracle Fusion cloud human capital management, Oracle Cerner healthcare, Oracle Advertising, and NetSuite applications suite, as well as Oracle Fusion Sales, Service, and Marketing.

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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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