Top Dividend Stocks To Consider - August 5th

Key Points

• MarketBeat has identified five key dividend stocks to watch, including UnitedHealth Group, Pfizer, and Exxon Mobil, which have experienced high trading volumes recently.
• UnitedHealth Group shares rose significantly, reaching $250.08 with a trading volume of over 21 million shares, despite its 50-day moving average being much higher at $295.77.
• Pfizer shares also increased to $24.77, with substantial trading volume of around 86 million shares, indicating strong investor interest in the biopharmaceutical company.

UnitedHealth Group, Pfizer, ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ, Exxon Mobil, and Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares are the five Dividend stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Dividend stocks are shares in companies that return a portion of their earnings to shareholders through regular cash payments called dividends. They appeal to income-focused investors by providing a steady income stream in addition to any potential stock price appreciation. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Dividend 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 up $9.10 on Tuesday, reaching $250.08. The stock had a trading volume of 21,093,307 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,095,905. 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 business's 50 day moving average is $295.77 and its two-hundred day moving average is $412.81. The company has a market cap of $226.85 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.84, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.50 and a beta of 0.43. UnitedHealth Group has a 1 year low of $234.60 and a 1 year high of $630.73.

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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.

NYSE PFE traded up $1.24 on Tuesday, reaching $24.77. 86,132,607 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 45,733,934. Pfizer has a 12 month low of $20.92 and a 12 month high of $30.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64, a current ratio of 1.26 and a quick ratio of 0.96. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $24.37 and a 200 day simple moving average of $24.53. The stock has a market cap of $140.84 billion, a PE ratio of 17.94, a P/E/G ratio of 0.85 and a beta of 0.52.

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ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ)

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (the Fund) seeks daily investment results, which corresponds to three times the inverse of the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index (the Index). The Index includes 100 of the non-financial domestic and international issues listed on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) Stock Market.

SQQQ stock traded up $0.34 on Tuesday, reaching $18.79. The company's stock had a trading volume of 98,340,558 shares, compared to its average volume of 92,213,672. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $20.55 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $28.26. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ has a 12-month low of $17.49 and a 12-month high of $57.80.

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Exxon Mobil (XOM)

Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas in the United States and internationally. It operates through Upstream, Energy Products, Chemical Products, and Specialty Products segments. The Upstream segment explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas.

XOM stock traded down $0.28 on Tuesday, reaching $107.09. The company's stock had a trading volume of 11,216,981 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,807,588. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $109.56 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $109.08. Exxon Mobil has a 12-month low of $97.80 and a 12-month high of $126.34. The firm has a market cap of $461.50 billion, a PE ratio of 15.22, a PEG ratio of 2.06 and a beta of 0.53. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 1.25.

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Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL)

Shares of TSLL stock traded down $0.01 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $10.72. 87,145,292 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 167,852,406. The stock's fifty day simple moving average is $12.20 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $13.36. Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares has a 12-month low of $6.29 and a 12-month high of $41.50. The stock has a market cap of $5.76 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 88.55 and a beta of -5.14.

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