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Financial Stocks Worth Watching - August 17th

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Key Points

  • UnitedHealth Group saw significant trading activity with nearly 68 million shares exchanged, pushing its stock price to $304.02, a rise of $32.53 during Friday's trading.
  • Robinhood Markets experienced a rise of $3.46 to reach $114.17, with trading volumes notably weighted against its average, signaling possible investor interest.
  • Coinbase Global traded down $7.34 to settle at $317.55, while still maintaining a strong market cap of $81.59 billion despite fluctuating trading volumes.
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UnitedHealth Group, Robinhood Markets, Circle Internet Group, BitMine Immersion Technologies, Salesforce, Berkshire Hathaway, and Coinbase Global are the seven Financial stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Financial stocks are shares of companies that provide financial services—such as banks, insurance firms, asset managers and real estate investment trusts—and derive revenue from activities like lending, underwriting, asset management and risk transfer. Their performance is closely tied to interest rates, economic cycles, regulatory shifts and overall market liquidity, often making them barometers of broader economic health. 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.

NYSE:UNH traded up $32.53 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $304.02. 67,934,484 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 19,286,994. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 0.85. The company has a fifty day moving average of $288.91 and a 200 day moving average of $396.85. The stock has a market capitalization of $275.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.17, a PEG ratio of 1.96 and a beta of 0.43. UnitedHealth Group has a 12 month low of $234.60 and a 12 month high of $630.73.

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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.

HOOD stock traded up $3.46 during trading on Friday, hitting $114.17. 32,125,017 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 42,715,608. Robinhood Markets has a 1 year low of $18.71 and a 1 year high of $117.70. The firm's 50 day moving average is $95.36 and its two-hundred day moving average is $66.26. The stock has a market cap of $101.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 57.95, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.35 and a beta of 2.36.

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Circle Internet Group (CRCL)

Founded in 2013, Circle's mission is to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value. We intend to connect the world more deeply by building a new global economic system on the foundation of the internet, and to facilitate the creation of a world where everyone, everywhere can share value as easily as we can today share information, content, and communications.

Shares of NYSE CRCL traded up $10.15 during trading on Friday, reaching $149.38. 23,198,835 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 14,098,770. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $183.28. Circle Internet Group has a 52-week low of $64.00 and a 52-week high of $298.99. The stock has a market capitalization of $33.24 billion and a PE ratio of -11,804.96.

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BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR)

BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. is a financial services company in the Banking industry.

NASDAQ BMNR traded down $2.64 on Friday, hitting $57.81. 59,566,029 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 11,347,022. The firm has a market capitalization of $248.76 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of -131.39. BitMine Immersion Technologies has a 52-week low of $1.93 and a 52-week high of $161.00.

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Salesforce (CRM)

Salesforce, Inc. provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.

NYSE CRM traded up $9.41 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $242.78. The stock had a trading volume of 12,936,592 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,984,759. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $260.41 and a 200 day moving average of $275.30. The stock has a market cap of $232.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 37.99, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.20 and a beta of 1.37. Salesforce has a 52-week low of $226.48 and a 52-week high of $369.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 1.07 and a current ratio of 1.07.

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

Berkshire Hathaway stock traded down $1.68 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $477.54. The company had a trading volume of 5,226,998 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,840,156. The company has a market capitalization of $1.03 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.37, a P/E/G ratio of 3.32 and a beta of 0.81. The company's fifty day moving average is $479.34 and its 200-day moving average is $497.02. Berkshire Hathaway has a 12-month low of $437.90 and a 12-month high of $542.07.

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Coinbase Global (COIN)

Coinbase Global, Inc. provides financial infrastructure and technology for the crypto economy in the United States and internationally. The company offers the primary financial account in the crypto economy for consumers; and a marketplace with a pool of liquidity for transacting in crypto assets for institutions.

Shares of NASDAQ:COIN traded down $7.34 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $317.55. 7,855,830 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 14,077,667. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $339.97 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $261.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a current ratio of 2.12 and a quick ratio of 2.13. The stock has a market cap of $81.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.71 and a beta of 3.70. Coinbase Global has a fifty-two week low of $142.58 and a fifty-two week high of $444.64.

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