UnitedHealth Group, Centene, and Elevance Health are the three Medical stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Medical stocks are shares of publicly traded companies operating in the healthcare and life-sciences sector—this includes pharmaceutical firms, biotechnology developers, medical-device manufacturers and healthcare service providers. By buying these equities, investors gain partial ownership in businesses that research, develop and distribute medical treatments, technologies and care. Their performance is influenced by factors such as clinical trial outcomes, regulatory approvals and broader healthcare trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Medical 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.
UnitedHealth Group stock traded down $13.54 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $312.60. The stock had a trading volume of 9,790,932 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,479,296. UnitedHealth Group has a 52-week low of $248.88 and a 52-week high of $630.73. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $331.91 and a 200 day moving average price of $451.20. The company has a quick ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71. The stock has a market cap of $283.57 billion, a PE ratio of 13.09, a P/E/G ratio of 1.48 and a beta of 0.45.
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Centene (CNC)
Centene Corporation operates as a healthcare enterprise that provides programs and services to under-insured and uninsured families, commercial organizations, and military families in the United States. The company operates through Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Other segments. The Medicaid segment offers health plan coverage, including medicaid expansion, aged, blind, disabled, children's health insurance program, foster care, medicare-medicaid plans, long-term services and support.
Shares of Centene stock traded down $22.54 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $34.11. 63,744,478 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,301,975. The stock has a market cap of $16.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.65 and a beta of 0.44. The firm's 50-day moving average price is $57.55 and its 200 day moving average price is $59.57. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 1.11 and a quick ratio of 1.11. Centene has a 12-month low of $33.80 and a 12-month high of $80.59.
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Elevance Health (ELV)
Elevance Health, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Health Benefits, CarelonRx, Carelon Services, and Corporate & Other. It offers a variety of health plans and services to program members; health products; an array of fee-based administrative managed care services; and specialty and other insurance products and services, such as stop loss, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health insurance benefits.
NYSE ELV traded down $36.90 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $358.86. 2,235,485 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,715,358. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $392.25 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $398.81. The stock has a market cap of $81.08 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.99 and a beta of 0.60. Elevance Health has a 1 year low of $357.45 and a 1 year high of $567.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66, a quick ratio of 1.43 and a current ratio of 1.43.
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