UnitedHealth Group, Alphabet, Salesforce, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, and Tempus AI are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in delivering medical goods and services, including pharmaceutical firms, biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers, hospitals and health insurers. By investing in these equities, investors gain exposure to a sector often viewed as defensive, since demand for healthcare tends to remain steady regardless of economic cycles. Their performance is driven by factors such as regulatory approvals, clinical trial results, patent expirations and changes in health policy. 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.
UNH traded up $38.35 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $309.84. 51,369,966 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 12,469,444. The firm has a market capitalization of $280.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.42, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.75 and a beta of 0.43. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $288.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $399.47. The company has a quick ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73. UnitedHealth Group has a one year low of $234.60 and a one year high of $630.73.
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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.
Shares of NASDAQ GOOGL traded up $3.01 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $205.95. 15,678,037 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 36,543,168. The company has a market cap of $2.49 trillion, a P/E ratio of 21.93, a PEG ratio of 1.36 and a beta of 1.01. The stock's fifty day simple moving average is $183.65 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $173.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 1.90 and a current ratio of 1.90. Alphabet has a twelve month low of $140.53 and a twelve month high of $207.05.
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Salesforce (CRM)
Salesforce, Inc. provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.
Shares of Salesforce stock traded up $9.55 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $242.92. The company had a trading volume of 7,730,733 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,192,994. The company has a current ratio of 1.07, a quick ratio of 1.07 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The company has a market capitalization of $232.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.02, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 1.37. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $261.05 and a 200 day simple moving average of $276.65. Salesforce has a 1-year low of $226.48 and a 1-year high of $369.00.
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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.
Shares of NYSE ORCL traded up $3.86 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $248.82. 6,022,492 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 11,973,527. The company has a market capitalization of $698.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 57.33, a P/E/G ratio of 3.64 and a beta of 1.43. Oracle has a 12 month low of $118.86 and a 12 month high of $260.87. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $229.06 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $179.81. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07, a current ratio of 0.75 and a quick ratio of 0.75.
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Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, a security management solution for the global control of network security platform as a virtual or a physical appliance. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, URL filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, DNS security, Internet of Things security, SaaS security API, and SaaS security inline, as well as threat intelligence, and data loss prevention.
PANW traded up $3.00 during trading on Friday, hitting $176.55. The company had a trading volume of 4,976,500 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,177,554. Palo Alto Networks has a one year low of $144.15 and a one year high of $210.39. The firm's 50-day moving average price is $192.45 and its 200 day moving average price is $186.52. The company has a market capitalization of $117.72 billion, a PE ratio of 100.87, a PEG ratio of 4.20 and a beta of 0.94.
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ServiceNow (NOW)
ServiceNow, Inc. provides end to-end intelligent workflow automation platform solutions for digital businesses in the North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates the Now platform for end-to-end digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, performance analytics, and collaboration and development tools.
Shares of ServiceNow stock traded up $14.10 during trading on Friday, hitting $864.96. 983,245 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,704,637. The stock has a market capitalization of $179.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 108.94, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.89 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $970.30 and a 200-day moving average price of $937.15. ServiceNow has a 1-year low of $678.66 and a 1-year high of $1,198.09. The company has a current ratio of 1.09, a quick ratio of 1.09 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14.
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Tempus AI (TEM)
Tempus AI Inc. is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence principally in healthcare. The company provides AI-enabled precision medicine solutions to physicians to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics.
TEM traded up $2.15 on Friday, reaching $73.74. The company had a trading volume of 10,059,411 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,523,607. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.58, a quick ratio of 1.56 and a current ratio of 1.54. The stock has a market cap of $12.77 billion, a P/E ratio of -62.01 and a beta of 4.98. Tempus AI has a fifty-two week low of $31.36 and a fifty-two week high of $91.45. The company's fifty day moving average is $62.90 and its 200 day moving average is $58.41.
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