Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, ServiceNow, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hims & Hers Health, Danaher, and Oracle are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business activities involve medical products and services, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, health insurance, and healthcare providers. By investing in these equities, shareholders gain exposure to a sector often regarded as defensive—because of the steady demand for medical care—but one that can also be influenced by factors like regulatory shifts, drug patent expirations, and research-and-development outcomes. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.
Alphabet (GOOGL)
Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube.
Shares of Alphabet stock traded up $1.49 on Thursday, reaching $191.72. 50,691,670 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 36,880,004. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $174.67 and a 200-day moving average price of $173.13. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.33 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 21.37, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.00. The company has a current ratio of 1.77, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. Alphabet has a fifty-two week low of $140.53 and a fifty-two week high of $207.05.
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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.
NYSE:UNH traded down $12.12 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $280.39. 12,956,721 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 11,249,010. The firm has a market cap of $254.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.74, a P/E/G ratio of 1.39 and a beta of 0.45. UnitedHealth Group has a twelve month low of $248.88 and a twelve month high of $630.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 0.85. The stock's fifty day moving average price is $301.70 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $428.82.
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ServiceNow (NOW)
ServiceNow, Inc. provides end to-end intelligent workflow automation platform solutions for digital businesses in the North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates the Now platform for end-to-end digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, performance analytics, and collaboration and development tools.
Shares of NOW traded up $30.25 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $986.68. 2,426,892 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,682,720. The company has a market cap of $204.22 billion, a PE ratio of 134.06, a PEG ratio of 4.41 and a beta of 0.94. The firm's 50 day moving average is $1,002.51 and its 200-day moving average is $954.31. ServiceNow has a 52 week low of $678.66 and a 52 week high of $1,198.09. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 1.12 and a current ratio of 1.12.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and biopharma services in the North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company's Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research, discovery, and production of drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases; and solutions include biosciences, genetic sciences, and bio production to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and government markets.
NYSE:TMO traded up $13.14 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $479.85. 3,642,947 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,480,800. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $411.01 and a two-hundred day moving average of $471.10. Thermo Fisher Scientific has a 12 month low of $385.46 and a 12 month high of $627.88. The firm has a market capitalization of $181.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.14, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.06 and a beta of 0.77. The company has a current ratio of 1.77, a quick ratio of 1.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64.
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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.
Shares of HIMS traded down $1.44 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $56.58. The company had a trading volume of 16,815,840 shares, compared to its average volume of 33,622,094. Hims & Hers Health has a twelve month low of $13.47 and a twelve month high of $72.98. The company's 50-day moving average is $53.31 and its 200-day moving average is $42.35. The company has a market capitalization of $12.66 billion, a P/E ratio of 82.00, a P/E/G ratio of 1.84 and a beta of 2.02.
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Danaher (DHR)
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The Biotechnology segments offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services that advance, accelerate, and integrate the development and manufacture of therapeutics; cell line and cell culture media development services; cell culture media, process liquids and buffers for manufacturing, chromatography resins, filtration technologies, aseptic fill finish; single-use hardware and consumables and services, such as the design and installation of full manufacturing suites; lab filtration, separation, and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents, membranes, and services; and healthcare filtration solutions.
DHR traded up $5.96 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $203.85. The stock had a trading volume of 4,285,992 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,240,878. The stock has a market capitalization of $145.89 billion, a P/E ratio of 43.37, a P/E/G ratio of 2.65 and a beta of 0.77. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 1.05 and a current ratio of 1.43. The firm's fifty day simple moving average is $195.94 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $204.39. Danaher has a 52 week low of $171.00 and a 52 week high of $281.70.
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Oracle (ORCL)
Oracle Corporation offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments worldwide. Its Oracle cloud software as a service offering include various cloud software applications, including Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise performance management, Oracle Fusion cloud supply chain and manufacturing management, Oracle Fusion cloud human capital management, Oracle Cerner healthcare, Oracle Advertising, and NetSuite applications suite, as well as Oracle Fusion Sales, Service, and Marketing.
Shares of NYSE:ORCL traded down $0.01 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $241.90. The company had a trading volume of 3,385,409 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,177,874. The stock has a market cap of $679.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.74, a PEG ratio of 3.55 and a beta of 1.39. Oracle has a 12 month low of $118.86 and a 12 month high of $251.60. The company has a current ratio of 0.75, a quick ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $201.05 and a 200 day simple moving average of $170.49.
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