UnitedHealth Group, Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares, and ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ are the three Dividend stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Dividend stocks are shares of companies that distribute a portion of their earnings directly to shareholders, typically on a quarterly basis. These payouts, known as dividends, provide investors with regular income in addition to any potential share price appreciation. Investors often choose dividend stocks for their combination of steady cash flow and the possibility of long-term capital growth. 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.
UnitedHealth Group stock traded up $4.54 during trading on Friday, reaching $249.21. The stock had a trading volume of 7,270,853 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,083,469. The company has a quick ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $292.78 and a 200 day moving average price of $408.71. The stock has a market cap of $226.07 billion, a PE ratio of 10.80, a P/E/G ratio of 1.59 and a beta of 0.43. UnitedHealth Group has a 52-week low of $234.60 and a 52-week high of $630.73.
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Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL)
NASDAQ TSLL traded up $0.55 during trading on Friday, reaching $12.16. 129,541,299 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 166,939,625. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $11.91 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $13.21. The stock has a market cap of $6.54 billion, a P/E ratio of 88.55 and a beta of -5.14. Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares has a 1 year low of $6.29 and a 1 year high of $41.50.
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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 traded down $0.46 on Friday, reaching $17.51. The company's stock had a trading volume of 84,820,517 shares, compared to its average volume of 92,644,039. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $20.23 and a two-hundred day moving average of $28.04. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ has a fifty-two week low of $17.46 and a fifty-two week high of $57.80.
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