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Healthcare Stocks To Follow Now - January 20th

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Key Points

  • Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and INVO Fertility (IVF) were flagged by MarketBeat's stock screener as the three healthcare stocks to watch today, each posting the highest recent dollar trading volume in the sector.
  • MarketBeat highlights that healthcare equities provide exposure to demand from an aging population and medical innovation and are often viewed as relatively defensive, but they carry sector-specific risks like regulatory approvals, patent expirations, reimbursement changes, and high R&D uncertainty.
  • JNJ operates via Innovative Medicine and MedTech, UNH runs diversified businesses including UnitedHealthcare and Optum, and IVF is a fertility-focused company, so investors should consider each company's specific fundamentals and risks.
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Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Group, and INVO Fertility are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that operate in the medical and health-related industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical-device manufacturers, hospital systems, insurers, and health-service providers. For stock market investors, these equities offer exposure to demand driven by aging populations and ongoing medical innovation and are often viewed as relatively defensive because healthcare demand is less sensitive to economic cycles. They also carry sector-specific risks such as regulatory approval processes, patent expirations, reimbursement changes, and high R&D uncertainty. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

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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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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INVO Fertility (IVF)

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