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Healthcare Stocks To Consider - August 5th

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Key Points

  • Healthcare stocks to watch include UnitedHealth Group, Hims & Hers Health, Alphabet, Oracle, Axon Enterprise, Intuitive Surgical, and Palo Alto Networks, reflecting high trading volumes in recent days.
  • UnitedHealth Group recently saw its shares traded up $9.14 to $250.12, with a market capitalization of $226.90 billion and a PE ratio of 10.87.
  • Hims & Hers Health reported a trading volume of 70,511,010 shares at $57.72, showing significant market interest, alongside a market cap of $12.92 billion and a P/E ratio of 84.45.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in September.

UnitedHealth Group, Hims & Hers Health, Alphabet, Oracle, Axon Enterprise, Intuitive Surgical, and Palo Alto Networks are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that develop, manufacture, or provide health-related products and services, including pharmaceutical firms, biotechnology companies, medical device makers, hospitals and health insurers. By buying healthcare stocks, investors gain exposure to industry drivers such as aging populations, medical innovation and regulatory shifts. These stocks are particularly sensitive to factors like drug approvals, policy reforms and changes in reimbursement rates. 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.

Shares of UNH traded up $9.14 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $250.12. 17,089,253 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 12,059,151. The company has a quick ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73. The stock has a market capitalization of $226.90 billion, a PE ratio of 10.87, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.50 and a beta of 0.43. UnitedHealth Group has a fifty-two week low of $234.60 and a fifty-two week high of $630.73. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $295.77 and a 200 day simple moving average of $412.81.

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Hims & Hers Health (HIMS)

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. operates a telehealth consultation platform. It connects consumers to healthcare professionals, enabling them to access medical care for mental health, sexual health, dermatology and primary care. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NYSE:HIMS traded down $5.63 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $57.72. The company's stock had a trading volume of 70,511,010 shares, compared to its average volume of 34,136,801. The stock has a market cap of $12.92 billion, a P/E ratio of 84.45, a P/E/G ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 2.08. Hims & Hers Health has a twelve month low of $13.47 and a twelve month high of $72.98. The company's fifty day simple moving average is $53.79 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $44.51.

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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.

Shares of NASDAQ GOOGL traded up $0.35 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $195.39. The stock had a trading volume of 16,656,780 shares, compared to its average volume of 36,988,586. The company has a market capitalization of $2.36 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.81, a PEG ratio of 1.28 and a beta of 1.01. Alphabet has a 1-year low of $140.53 and a 1-year high of $207.05. The company has a quick ratio of 1.90, a current ratio of 1.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $178.85 and a 200 day moving average price of $172.81.

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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 NYSE ORCL traded up $3.04 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $255.57. The stock had a trading volume of 6,516,439 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,051,692. The company has a market capitalization of $717.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.88, a PEG ratio of 3.65 and a beta of 1.43. The company has a quick ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07. Oracle has a 1-year low of $118.86 and a 1-year high of $260.87. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $215.48 and a 200 day moving average price of $175.60.

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Axon Enterprise (AXON)

Axon Enterprise, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells conducted energy devices (CEDs) under the TASER brand in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Software and Sensors, and TASER. The company also offers hardware and cloud-based software solutions that enable law enforcement to capture, securely store, manage, share, and analyze video and other digital evidence.

AXON stock traded up $119.10 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $863.98. 1,509,774 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 701,991. The company has a current ratio of 2.83, a quick ratio of 2.62 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. Axon Enterprise has a 12-month low of $286.19 and a 12-month high of $885.92. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $764.81 and a 200-day moving average price of $658.28. The stock has a market capitalization of $67.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 208.69, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 82.76 and a beta of 1.36.

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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.

Shares of NASDAQ ISRG traded down $0.39 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $482.98. The stock had a trading volume of 1,541,271 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,005,216. Intuitive Surgical has a one year low of $425.00 and a one year high of $616.00. The stock has a market cap of $173.14 billion, a PE ratio of 67.38, a P/E/G ratio of 5.06 and a beta of 1.59. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $522.89 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $531.90.

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Palo Alto Networks (PANW)

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, a security management solution for the global control of network security platform as a virtual or a physical appliance. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, URL filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, DNS security, Internet of Things security, SaaS security API, and SaaS security inline, as well as threat intelligence, and data loss prevention.

NASDAQ:PANW traded down $1.63 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $169.38. 4,388,982 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,928,603. Palo Alto Networks has a twelve month low of $144.15 and a twelve month high of $210.39. The firm has a market capitalization of $112.94 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 96.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.11 and a beta of 0.94. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $195.73 and a 200 day moving average price of $187.32.

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