Top Healthcare Stocks To Consider - October 6th

Key Points

• UnitedHealth Group is a diversified healthcare company operating through four segments, offering a range of healthcare services and coverage including health benefits for various employer sizes and Medicaid plans.
• Hims & Hers Health operates a telehealth consultation platform, providing access to healthcare professionals for services related to mental health, sexual health, dermatology, and primary care.
• Intuitive Surgical is known for its da Vinci Surgical System, which enhances minimally invasive surgical procedures, as well as the Ion endoluminal system for diagnostic procedures.

UnitedHealth Group, Hims & Hers Health, and Intuitive Surgical are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies operating within the healthcare sector, including businesses involved in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, hospitals, and health insurance. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the industry’s growth driven by factors like aging populations, medical innovation, and healthcare policy changes. Performance can vary with regulatory developments, patent expirations, and broader market trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare 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.

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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.

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Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets products that enable physicians and healthcare providers to enhance the quality of and access to minimally invasive care in the United States and internationally. The company offers the da Vinci Surgical System that enables complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach; and Ion endoluminal system, which extends its commercial offerings beyond surgery into diagnostic procedures enabling minimally invasive biopsies in the lung.

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