UnitedHealth Group, Alphabet, Hims & Hers Health, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Oracle, ServiceNow, and Stryker are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares in companies operating within the healthcare industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and healthcare services. By investing in these stocks, shareholders gain exposure to firms developing treatments, diagnostic tools, and care-delivery systems. Their performance is often shaped by factors such as regulatory approvals, clinical trial results and shifts in healthcare policy. 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.
Shares of UnitedHealth Group stock traded down $1.96 during trading on Friday, hitting $398.72. 11,384,114 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 4,602,582. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $495.85 and a 200-day simple moving average of $528.74. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.91. The stock has a market capitalization of $362.92 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.72, a PEG ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.61. UnitedHealth Group has a 1 year low of $393.11 and a 1 year high of $630.73.
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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 NASDAQ GOOGL traded up $2.73 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $164.03. 25,689,744 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 28,219,299. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.84 and a current ratio of 1.84. Alphabet has a one year low of $140.53 and a one year high of $207.05. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.99 trillion, a P/E ratio of 20.38, a PEG ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.01. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $160.19 and a two-hundred day moving average of $175.34.
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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 NYSE:HIMS traded up $4.82 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $40.98. The company had a trading volume of 49,512,288 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,783,776. Hims & Hers Health has a 12-month low of $11.20 and a 12-month high of $72.98. The company has a market cap of $9.10 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 93.14 and a beta of 1.65. The company has a fifty day moving average of $32.21 and a two-hundred day moving average of $31.43.
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Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX)
Becton, Dickinson and Company develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products for healthcare institutions, physicians, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical industry, and the general public worldwide. The company operates in three segments: BD Medical, BD Life Sciences, and BD Interventional.
Shares of NYSE BDX traded down $0.93 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $168.61. The stock had a trading volume of 10,519,115 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,809,744. The company has a market capitalization of $48.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.01, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.63 and a beta of 0.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69, a quick ratio of 0.63 and a current ratio of 1.13. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $214.76 and a 200-day moving average of $225.70. Becton, Dickinson and Company has a 12-month low of $166.11 and a 12-month high of $251.99.
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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 Oracle stock traded up $5.28 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $150.77. The company's stock had a trading volume of 11,338,726 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,424,655. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $143.62 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $163.90. The company has a market cap of $421.70 billion, a PE ratio of 36.86, a PEG ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.22. Oracle has a 12-month low of $114.55 and a 12-month high of $198.31. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.65, a quick ratio of 0.81 and a current ratio of 0.81.
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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.
NOW traded up $19.29 during trading on Friday, reaching $977.24. 1,667,831 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,512,244. The company has a market cap of $202.29 billion, a P/E ratio of 143.08, a PEG ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 1.08. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 1.10 and a current ratio of 1.10. ServiceNow has a 12-month low of $637.99 and a 12-month high of $1,198.09. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $839.29 and a 200 day simple moving average of $968.04.
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Stryker (SYK)
Stryker Corporation operates as a medical technology company. The company operates through two segments, MedSurg and Neurotechnology, and Orthopaedics and Spine. The Orthopaedics and Spine segment provides implants for use in total joint replacements, such as hip, knee and shoulder, and trauma and extremities surgeries.
SYK traded up $4.61 during trading on Friday, hitting $378.60. 3,709,100 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,356,830. The stock's 50-day simple moving average is $366.38 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $373.73. Stryker has a 1 year low of $314.93 and a 1 year high of $406.19. The company has a market cap of $144.51 billion, a PE ratio of 48.79, a P/E/G ratio of 2.93 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a current ratio of 1.95, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59.
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