Top Healthcare Stocks To Follow Now - July 5th

Oracle, Alphabet, and UnitedHealth Group are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies operating in the healthcare sector—such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology firms, medical device makers, and healthcare service providers. They offer investors exposure to businesses involved in developing, producing, and distributing medical treatments and technologies, with performance driven by factors like regulatory approvals, innovation pipelines, patent cycles, and demographic trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

Oracle (ORCL)

Oracle Corporation offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments worldwide. Its Oracle cloud software as a service offering include various cloud software applications, including Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise performance management, Oracle Fusion cloud supply chain and manufacturing management, Oracle Fusion cloud human capital management, Oracle Cerner healthcare, Oracle Advertising, and NetSuite applications suite, as well as Oracle Fusion Sales, Service, and Marketing.

NYSE ORCL traded up $7.41 on Friday, reaching $237.39. The company had a trading volume of 18,441,376 shares, compared to its average volume of 10,140,491. The company has a quick ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $178.14 and its 200 day moving average price is $164.26. Oracle has a 12 month low of $118.86 and a 12 month high of $237.99. The stock has a market capitalization of $666.79 billion, a PE ratio of 54.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.55 and a beta of 1.39.

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Alphabet (GOOGL)

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube.

NASDAQ GOOGL traded up $0.44 during trading on Friday, hitting $179.08. The stock had a trading volume of 21,689,729 shares, compared to its average volume of 31,547,766. The company has a market capitalization of $2.17 trillion, a PE ratio of 19.96, a P/E/G ratio of 1.26 and a beta of 1.00. The company's 50-day moving average price is $168.70 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $173.97. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a current ratio of 1.77. Alphabet has a 12 month low of $140.53 and a 12 month high of $207.05.

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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 NYSE:UNH traded up $1.13 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $308.69. 6,161,145 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,543,771. The company has a quick ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71. UnitedHealth Group has a 12 month low of $248.88 and a 12 month high of $630.73. The firm has a market capitalization of $280.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.93, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.48 and a beta of 0.45. The firm's fifty day moving average price is $324.99 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $447.68.

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