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Top Healthcare Stocks To Follow Now - April 18th

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Key Points

  • UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), and Hims & Hers Health (HIMS) are MarketBeat's top healthcare stocks to watch today, selected for having the highest dollar trading volume among healthcare names recently. The report notes healthcare is a relatively defensive, innovation-driven sector but carries risks from clinical trials, patent expirations, reimbursement changes, and regulation.
  • UnitedHealth Group (UNH) is a diversified payer-provider with major businesses in UnitedHealthcare and Optum (Health, Insight, Rx), giving it broad exposure to employer, Medicare, Medicaid, and consumer health demand across the U.S.
  • Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) represents large-cap stability with strengths in innovative medicines and MedTech, while Hims & Hers (HIMS) offers digital growth exposure as a telehealth platform for mental health, sexual health, dermatology, and primary care.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in May.

UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, and Hims & Hers Health are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies involved in medical goods and services—including pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, medical device makers, hospitals and clinics, insurers, and other suppliers—whose revenues come from developing, producing, or delivering healthcare. For investors, they provide exposure to a relatively defensive, innovation-driven sector influenced by demographics and public policy, but carry specific risks such as clinical trial results, patent expirations, reimbursement changes, and regulatory decisions. 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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on UNH

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Johnson & Johnson is a holding company, which engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of products in the healthcare field. It operates through the Innovative Medicine and MedTech segments. The Innovative Medicine segment focuses on immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolism, and pulmonary hypertension.

Read Our Latest Research Report on JNJ

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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