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Healthcare Stocks To Keep An Eye On - March 6th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat flagged UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, and Intuitive Surgical as the top healthcare stocks to watch based on the highest recent dollar trading volume among healthcare names.
  • UnitedHealth Group (UNH) is a diversified U.S. health company operating UnitedHealthcare and Optum segments that provide insurance, care delivery, analytics and pharmacy services.
  • Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) develops robotic and endoluminal systems—notably the da Vinci surgical platform and the Ion diagnostic system—to advance minimally invasive surgery and biopsies.
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UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, and Intuitive Surgical 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 healthcare industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, hospitals and clinics, diagnostics, and health insurers. For investors, these stocks can offer growth and defensive characteristics tied to demographic trends and medical innovation, but they also carry sector-specific risks such as regulatory decisions, clinical trial outcomes, and patent expirations that can drive volatility. 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.

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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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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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on ISRG

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