Promising Retail Stocks To Research - August 17th

Key Points

• Tesla, UnitedHealth Group, and Microsoft are highlighted as key retail stocks to monitor, showing high trading volumes recently.
• Tesla's stock traded down to $330.56, with a market cap of $1.07 trillion and a P/E ratio of 191.08.
• UnitedHealth Group shares increased to $304.02 with a market cap of $275.34 billion and a P/E ratio of 13.17.

Tesla, UnitedHealth Group, and Microsoft are the three Retail stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Retail stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business is selling goods or services directly to consumers through storefronts or online platforms. Investors buy and sell these stocks to gain exposure to consumer spending trends and retail sector performance. Because retail demand can be sensitive to economic cycles, retail stocks often fluctuate with changes in consumer confidence and disposable income. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Retail stocks within the last several days.

Tesla (TSLA)

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Automotive, and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells automotive regulatory credits; and non-warranty after-sales vehicle, used vehicles, body shop and parts, supercharging, retail merchandise, and vehicle insurance services.

TSLA traded down $5.02 during trading on Friday, hitting $330.56. The company's stock had a trading volume of 74,099,060 shares, compared to its average volume of 90,268,784. Tesla has a twelve month low of $202.59 and a twelve month high of $488.54. The stock's fifty day moving average price is $320.41 and its 200-day moving average price is $305.24. The company has a quick ratio of 1.55, a current ratio of 2.04 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.07 trillion, a P/E ratio of 191.08, a PEG ratio of 11.49 and a beta of 2.33.

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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.

Shares of UNH traded up $32.53 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $304.02. The stock had a trading volume of 67,934,484 shares, compared to its average volume of 19,286,994. UnitedHealth Group has a 12 month low of $234.60 and a 12 month high of $630.73. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $288.91 and a 200 day simple moving average of $396.85. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73. The company has a market capitalization of $275.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.17, a P/E/G ratio of 1.96 and a beta of 0.43.

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Microsoft (MSFT)

Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services.

Shares of MSFT traded down $2.31 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $520.17. The stock had a trading volume of 25,185,972 shares, compared to its average volume of 20,739,252. The company has a market capitalization of $3.87 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.14, a P/E/G ratio of 2.28 and a beta of 1.06. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $502.60 and a 200 day simple moving average of $441.01. Microsoft has a 12 month low of $344.79 and a 12 month high of $555.45. The company has a current ratio of 1.35, a quick ratio of 1.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12.

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