Healthcare Stocks To Watch Now - February 11th

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s screener names UNH, JNJ, HCA, MDT and BDX as the five healthcare stocks to watch today because they recorded the highest dollar trading volume among healthcare names in recent days.
• Healthcare stocks can provide defensive or growth-oriented returns but are particularly sensitive to regulatory decisions, clinical trial results, patent expirations, and reimbursement policy changes.
• The group reflects broad sector exposure—insurer/diversified health services (UNH), pharmaceuticals/MedTech (JNJ), hospitals (HCA), medical devices (MDT), and diagnostics/supplies (BDX)—giving investors different ways to access healthcare trends.

UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, HCA Healthcare, Medtronic, and Becton, Dickinson and Company are the five Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies that operate in the healthcare sector—including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, hospitals, and health insurers—and give investors ownership exposure to those businesses. For investors, these stocks can offer defensive or growth-oriented returns but are particularly sensitive to regulatory decisions, clinical trial outcomes, patent expirations, and reimbursement policies. 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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HCA Healthcare (HCA)

HCA Healthcare, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates hospitals and related healthcare entities in the United States. It operates general and acute care hospitals that offers medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy.

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Medtronic (MDT)

Medtronic plc develops, manufactures, and sells device-based medical therapies to healthcare systems, physicians, clinicians, and patients worldwide. Its Cardiovascular Portfolio segment offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, cardioverter defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices; cardiac ablation products; insertable cardiac monitor systems; TYRX products; and remote monitoring and patient-centered software.

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Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX)

Becton, Dickinson and Company develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products for healthcare institutions, physicians, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical industry, and the general public worldwide. The company operates in three segments: BD Medical, BD Life Sciences, and BD Interventional.

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