Medical Stocks To Follow Today - March 17th

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flags five Medical stocks to watch today — Eli Lilly (LLY), UnitedHealth (UNH), Pfizer (PFE), Hims & Hers (HIMS), and Masimo (MASI) — each had the highest dollar trading volume among Medical stocks in recent days.
• Medical stocks are often driven by clinical-trial results, regulatory approvals, patent/reimbursement dynamics, and demographic or policy trends, so investors should monitor product pipelines and key offerings like Eli Lilly's diabetes/obesity drugs (e.g., Mounjaro, Zepbound), Pfizer's vaccines and antivirals (Comirnaty, Paxlovid), and UnitedHealth's Optum and health-plan businesses.
• Smaller or niche plays to watch include Hims & Hers for telehealth services and Masimo for advanced patient-monitoring devices, representing exposure to digital care delivery and medical-device innovation.

Eli Lilly and Company, UnitedHealth Group, Pfizer, Hims & Hers Health, and Masimo are the five Medical stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Medical stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that develop, manufacture, or deliver healthcare products and services — including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical device makers, diagnostics firms, hospitals, and health insurers. For investors, these equities provide exposure to the healthcare sector but are often driven by clinical trial outcomes, regulatory approvals, patent and reimbursement dynamics, and changing demographic or policy trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Medical stocks within the last several days.

Eli Lilly and Company (LLY)

Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, and markets human pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company offers Basaglar, Humalog, Humalog Mix 75/25, Humalog U-100, Humalog U-200, Humalog Mix 50/50, insulin lispro, insulin lispro protamine, insulin lispro mix 75/25, Humulin, Humulin 70/30, Humulin N, Humulin R, and Humulin U-500 for diabetes; Jardiance, Mounjaro, and Trulicity for type 2 diabetes; and Zepbound for obesity.

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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.

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Pfizer (PFE)

Pfizer Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells biopharmaceutical products in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular metabolic, migraine, and women's health under the Eliquis, Nurtec ODT/Vydura, Zavzpret, and the Premarin family brands; infectious diseases with unmet medical needs under the Prevnar family, Abrysvo, Nimenrix, FSME/IMMUN-TicoVac, and Trumenba brands; and COVID-19 prevention and treatment, and potential future mRNA and antiviral products under the Comirnaty and Paxlovid brands.

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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.

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Masimo (MASI)

Masimo Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets various patient monitoring technologies, and automation and connectivity solutions worldwide. The company offers masimo signal extraction technology (SET) pulse oximetry with measure-through motion and low perfusion pulse oximetry monitoring to address the primary limitations of conventional pulse oximetry; Masimo rainbow SET platform, including rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry products that allows noninvasive monitoring of carboxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, hemoglobin concentration, fractional arterial oxygen saturation, oxygen content, pleth variability index, rainbow pleth variability index, respiration rate from the pleth, and oxygen reserve index, as well as acoustic respiration monitoring, SedLine brain function monitoring, NomoLine capnography and gas monitoring, and regional oximetry.

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