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Financial Stocks To Research - August 27th

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Key Points

  • UnitedHealth Group, Robinhood Markets, and Bank of America are the top financial stocks to monitor, showing the highest trading volumes recently.
  • UnitedHealth Group operates through multiple segments, providing a range of health care services and plans to various demographics, including individuals and state programs.
  • Robinhood Markets offers a comprehensive financial services platform that includes trading in stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies, along with various investment features like fractional trading.
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UnitedHealth Group, Robinhood Markets, and Bank of America are the three Financial stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Financial stocks are shares of companies operating in the financial services sector—such as banks, insurance firms, brokerages and asset managers. They generate revenue from interest income, fees, underwriting and investment activities, making their performance particularly sensitive to interest‐rate movements and economic cycles. Investors often hold financial stocks to gain exposure to economic growth and to earn returns through dividends and capital appreciation, though these shares can be more volatile during downturns. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Financial 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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Robinhood Markets (HOOD)

Robinhood Markets, Inc. operates financial services platform in the United States. Its platform allows users to invest in stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), American depository receipts, options, gold, and cryptocurrencies. The company offers fractional trading, recurring investments, fully-paid securities lending, access to investing on margin, cash sweep, instant withdrawals, retirement program, around-the-clock trading, and initial public offerings participation services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on HOOD

Bank of America (BAC)

Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and financial products and services for individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, institutional investors, large corporations, and governments worldwide. It operates in four segments: Consumer Banking, Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM), Global Banking, and Global Markets.

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