Promising Medical Stocks To Watch Now - June 29th

AbbVie, Merck & Co., Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Hims & Hers Health, and Insmed are the five Medical stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Medical stocks are publicly traded shares of companies operating in the healthcare sector, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology firms, medical device makers and healthcare service providers. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to potential breakthroughs in drug development, medical technologies and treatment methods. Their performance is often driven by factors such as regulatory approvals, clinical trial results and shifts in healthcare policy. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Medical stocks within the last several days.

AbbVie (ABBV)

AbbVie Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company offers Humira, an injection for autoimmune and intestinal Behçet's diseases, and pyoderma gangrenosum; Skyrizi to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, psoriatic disease, and Crohn's disease; Rinvoq to treat rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, atopic dermatitis, axial spondyloarthropathy, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease; Imbruvica for the treatment of adult patients with blood cancers; Epkinly to treat lymphoma; Elahere to treat cancer; and Venclexta/Venclyxto to treat blood cancers.

AbbVie stock traded down $4.90 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $181.89. 29,262,557 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 6,249,513. The firm has a market capitalization of $321.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 77.40, a PEG ratio of 1.21 and a beta of 0.50. The firm's 50 day moving average is $186.21 and its 200-day moving average is $188.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 44.14, a quick ratio of 0.64 and a current ratio of 0.76. AbbVie has a fifty-two week low of $163.52 and a fifty-two week high of $218.66.

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Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK)

Merck & Co., Inc. is a health care company, which engages in the provision of health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, animal health, and consumer care products. It operates through the following segments: Pharmaceutical, Animal Health, and Other. The Pharmaceutical segment includes human health pharmaceutical and vaccine products.

Shares of MRK traded up $0.10 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $78.93. 60,171,714 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 13,155,543. The company has a market cap of $198.20 billion, a PE ratio of 11.49, a P/E/G ratio of 0.82 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69, a current ratio of 1.41 and a quick ratio of 1.16. Merck & Co., Inc. has a 52 week low of $73.31 and a 52 week high of $129.93. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $79.06 and a 200 day simple moving average of $87.64.

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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.

UnitedHealth Group stock traded up $6.23 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $308.85. 13,584,804 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,404,577. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 0.85 and a quick ratio of 0.85. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $336.21 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $453.97. UnitedHealth Group has a fifty-two week low of $248.88 and a fifty-two week high of $630.73. The stock has a market cap of $280.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.93, a P/E/G ratio of 1.46 and a beta of 0.44.

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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 & Hers Health stock traded up $3.15 during trading on Friday, reaching $49.43. The company's stock had a trading volume of 83,270,134 shares, compared to its average volume of 23,099,790. The firm has a market cap of $11.06 billion, a PE ratio of 71.63, a P/E/G ratio of 1.86 and a beta of 2.09. The business's 50-day moving average price is $50.09 and its 200-day moving average price is $39.66. Hims & Hers Health has a 52 week low of $13.47 and a 52 week high of $72.98.

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Insmed (INSM)

Insmed Incorporated is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases. Insmed's first commercial product is ARIKAYCE® (amikacin liposome inhalation suspension), which is approved in the United States for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease as part of a combination antibacterial drug regimen for adult patients with limited or no alternative treatment options.

NASDAQ INSM traded down $2.25 during trading on Friday, hitting $99.49. 34,467,302 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,299,115. The company has a current ratio of 5.86, a quick ratio of 5.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 11.38. The company has a market cap of $18.87 billion, a PE ratio of -16.72 and a beta of 0.80. Insmed has a fifty-two week low of $60.40 and a fifty-two week high of $106.83. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $78.01 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $75.55.

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