Insurance Stocks To Follow Today - October 14th

Key Points

• Five major insurance stocks to monitor today include Wells Fargo, Berkshire Hathaway, KKR & Co. Inc., Humana, and Oscar Health, based on their recent trading volume.
• Insurance stocks tend to offer steady cash flows and dividends, but they also come with risks associated with underwriting cycles and sensitivity to interest rates.
• Berkshire Hathaway is diversified beyond insurance, engaging in freight rail transportation and utility businesses, while KKR focuses on alternative asset management and insurance solutions.

Wells Fargo & Company, Berkshire Hathaway, KKR & Co. Inc., Humana, and Oscar Health are the five Insurance stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Insurance stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose core business is underwriting and selling insurance products (life, health, property & casualty, reinsurance, etc.). For investors, these stocks often provide relatively stable cash flows and dividends but carry exposure to underwriting cycles, catastrophe and claims risk, and sensitivity to interest rates and investment returns, making them a distinct sector for income and diversification strategies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Insurance stocks within the last several days.

Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)

Wells Fargo & Co. is a diversified and community-based financial services company, which engages in the provision of banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth and Investment Management.

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

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KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR)

KKR & Co., Inc. operates as an investment firm. It offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. The firm's business segments include Asset Management and Insurance Business. The Asset Management segment engages in providing private equity, real assets, credit and liquid strategies, capital markets, and principal activities.

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Humana (HUM)

Humana Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides medical and specialty insurance products in the United States. It operates through two segments, Insurance and CenterWell. The company offers medical and supplemental benefit plans to individuals. It has a contract with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to administer the Limited Income Newly Eligible Transition prescription drug plan program; and contracts with various states to provide Medicaid, dual eligible, and long-term support services benefits.

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Oscar Health (OSCR)

Oscar Health, Inc. operates as a health insurance in the United States. The company offers health plans in individual and small group markets, as well as +Oscar, a technology driven platform that help providers and payors directly enable their shift to value-based care. It also provides reinsurance products.

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