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Healthcare Stocks To Watch Today - April 28th

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Key Points

  • Five healthcare stocks to watch: UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Centene (CNC), Hims & Hers Health (HIMS) and HCA Healthcare (HCA) were highlighted by MarketBeat after posting the highest recent dollar trading volume among healthcare names.
  • Sector exposure: The group spans insurers and diversified care providers (UNH, CNC, HCA), a large medtech/pharma conglomerate (JNJ) and a consumer telehealth platform (HIMS), offering exposure to both traditional healthcare services and digital health growth.
  • Investor considerations: MarketBeat notes investors pursue healthcare for demand-driven and innovation-led returns but must weigh sector-specific risks such as regulatory approvals, R&D outcomes, and reimbursement or policy changes.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of UnitedHealth Group.

UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, Centene, Hims & Hers Health, and HCA Healthcare are the five 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 life-sciences sectors—including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, hospitals and clinics, insurers, and health-technology firms. Stock market investors buy them to gain exposure to demand for medical products and services and to innovation-driven growth, while weighing sector-specific risks such as regulatory approvals, R&D outcomes, and reimbursement or policy changes. 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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on UNH

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on JNJ

Centene (CNC)

Centene Corporation operates as a healthcare enterprise that provides programs and services to under-insured and uninsured families, commercial organizations, and military families in the United States. The company operates through Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Other segments. The Medicaid segment offers health plan coverage, including medicaid expansion, aged, blind, disabled, children's health insurance program, foster care, medicare-medicaid plans, long-term services and support.

Read Our Latest Research Report on CNC

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on HIMS

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on HCA

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