Tesla, UnitedHealth Group, and Berkshire Hathaway are the three Insurance stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Insurance stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business is underwriting and selling insurance policies. As equity stakes in insurers, they give investors a claim on the company’s profits, which derive both from premiums collected and investment income on those funds. Their performance tends to reflect underwriting results, interest‐rate movements and exposure to large or catastrophic claims. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Insurance stocks within the last several days.
Tesla (TSLA)
Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Automotive, and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells automotive regulatory credits; and non-warranty after-sales vehicle, used vehicles, body shop and parts, supercharging, retail merchandise, and vehicle insurance services.
NASDAQ:TSLA traded up $8.47 on Friday, hitting $327.58. The company's stock had a trading volume of 112,723,839 shares, compared to its average volume of 100,783,683. Tesla has a one year low of $176.92 and a one year high of $488.54. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.06 trillion, a P/E ratio of 160.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.47. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $297.32 and a two-hundred day moving average of $332.97. The company has a current ratio of 2.02, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08.
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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.
UNH traded down $5.66 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $312.84. The company's stock had a trading volume of 9,631,093 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,001,274. UnitedHealth Group has a 52 week low of $248.88 and a 52 week high of $630.73. The firm has a market cap of $283.79 billion, a PE ratio of 20.20, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.45. The company's 50-day moving average is $391.47 and its 200-day moving average is $476.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 0.83.
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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.
Shares of BRK.B traded down $3.04 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $487.30. The company had a trading volume of 2,262,422 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,915,193. The firm has a market cap of $1.05 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.85, a PEG ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.85. The business has a fifty day moving average of $511.68 and a 200-day moving average of $491.19. Berkshire Hathaway has a 12 month low of $403.33 and a 12 month high of $542.07.
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