Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, Oracle, ServiceNow, and GE Aerospace are the five Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies operating in the healthcare sector, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology firms, medical device producers and healthcare service providers. Investors buy these equities to gain exposure to the industry’s research, development and delivery of medical products and services. Because demand for healthcare tends to be relatively stable, these stocks are often viewed as a defensive component in an investment portfolio. 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.
GOOGL traded up $2.57 on Friday, hitting $180.19. The company had a trading volume of 34,243,157 shares, compared to its average volume of 31,878,935. The company has a quick ratio of 1.77, a current ratio of 1.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The company has a market cap of $2.19 trillion, a PE ratio of 20.09, a PEG ratio of 1.25 and a beta of 1.00. Alphabet has a 12-month low of $140.53 and a 12-month high of $207.05. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $170.32 and its 200 day simple moving average is $173.46.
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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.
Shares of UnitedHealth Group stock traded up $4.30 on Friday, hitting $303.81. 9,789,082 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,687,343. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $314.52 and its 200-day moving average price is $440.88. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71. UnitedHealth Group has a 52 week low of $248.88 and a 52 week high of $630.73. The company has a market cap of $275.60 billion, a PE ratio of 12.72, a PEG ratio of 1.43 and a beta of 0.45.
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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.
Shares of Oracle stock traded down $4.55 on Friday, hitting $230.45. 10,172,356 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 10,259,055. The company has a market cap of $647.29 billion, a PE ratio of 53.10, a PEG ratio of 3.51 and a beta of 1.39. Oracle has a 52 week low of $118.86 and a 52 week high of $241.44. The company has a current ratio of 0.75, a quick ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $187.16 and its 200-day moving average price is $166.49.
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ServiceNow (NOW)
ServiceNow, Inc. provides end to-end intelligent workflow automation platform solutions for digital businesses in the North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates the Now platform for end-to-end digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, performance analytics, and collaboration and development tools.
NYSE:NOW traded down $30.97 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $937.12. The company's stock had a trading volume of 2,144,933 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,483,800. The company has a market capitalization of $193.97 billion, a P/E ratio of 127.33, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.45 and a beta of 0.94. ServiceNow has a 12 month low of $678.66 and a 12 month high of $1,198.09. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 1.12 and a current ratio of 1.12. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $1,008.08 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $960.59.
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GE Aerospace (GE)
GE Aerospace (also known as General Electric) is a company that specializes in providing aerospace products and services. It operates through two reportable segments: Commercial Engines and Services and Defense and Propulsion Technologies. It offers jet and turboprop engines, as well as integrated systems for commercial, military, business, and general aviation aircraft.
Shares of GE Aerospace stock traded up $2.92 during trading on Friday, reaching $255.49. The company's stock had a trading volume of 7,838,134 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,549,492. The company has a quick ratio of 0.77, a current ratio of 1.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.90. The company has a market cap of $272.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 39.73, a P/E/G ratio of 3.05 and a beta of 1.37. GE Aerospace has a 1-year low of $150.20 and a 1-year high of $260.55. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $239.17 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $208.52.
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