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Healthcare Stocks To Watch Now - October 25th

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Key Points

  • UnitedHealth Group, Intuitive Surgical, and Johnson & Johnson are highlighted as key healthcare stocks to monitor due to their recent high trading volumes.
  • UnitedHealth Group operates through various segments, offering a broad range of healthcare services that target both individual and economical sectors.
  • Intuitive Surgical focuses on minimally invasive surgical solutions, notably with its da Vinci Surgical System, enhancing care quality and access.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of UnitedHealth Group.

UnitedHealth Group, Intuitive Surgical, and Johnson & Johnson 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 sector, including pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, medical device makers, hospitals and clinics, insurers, and healthcare services and technology providers. For investors they provide exposure to demand driven by demographics and medical innovation and are often seen as relatively defensive, but carry company- and industry-specific risks such as regulatory approval, patent expirations, and changes in 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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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.

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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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