Best Healthcare Stocks To Keep An Eye On - July 29th

Key Points

• Five healthcare stocks are highlighted for investor attention: UnitedHealth Group (UNH), GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), and Cardinal Health (CAH), selected for their high recent dollar trading volume.
• The companies span key healthcare industries, including health insurance and services, medical imaging and diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, robotic surgery, and healthcare distribution.
• Healthcare stocks may offer growth potential, defensive characteristics, and exposure to medical demand, but remain sensitive to regulation, clinical-trial outcomes, competition, and reimbursement changes.

UnitedHealth Group, GE HealthCare Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, Intuitive Surgical, and Cardinal Health are the five Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies involved in the healthcare industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare services, and health insurance. Investors may consider them for their potential growth, defensive characteristics, and exposure to demand for medical products and services, though they can be affected by regulation, clinical-trial results, competition, and reimbursement changes. 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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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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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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Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets products that enable physicians and healthcare providers to enhance the quality of and access to minimally invasive care in the United States and internationally. The company offers the da Vinci Surgical System that enables complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach; and Ion endoluminal system, which extends its commercial offerings beyond surgery into diagnostic procedures enabling minimally invasive biopsies in the lung.

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Cardinal Health (CAH)

Cardinal Health, Inc. operates as a healthcare services and products company in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and internationally. It provides customized solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, physician offices, and patients in the home.

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