UnitedHealth Group, Alphabet, Salesforce, Danaher, and Thermo Fisher Scientific are the five Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks refer to shares in companies that operate within the healthcare sector, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare providers, and related services. These stocks offer investors the opportunity to gain exposure to a rapidly evolving industry driven by innovation, demographic trends, and regulatory changes in healthcare. 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 $1.17 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $426.50. 4,884,837 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 4,401,952. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 0.83. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $510.91 and a 200 day simple moving average of $538.77. UnitedHealth Group has a 12-month low of $418.07 and a 12-month high of $630.73. The company has a market cap of $390.12 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.61, a PEG ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.61.
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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 $3.78 on Tuesday, reaching $151.45. The company had a trading volume of 11,273,462 shares, compared to its average volume of 28,238,879. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.85 trillion, a PE ratio of 18.84, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.03. Alphabet has a 12 month low of $140.53 and a 12 month high of $207.05. The company has a quick ratio of 1.84, a current ratio of 1.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $164.42 and its 200 day moving average price is $175.78.
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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 CRM stock traded up $7.15 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $243.41. The stock had a trading volume of 3,105,147 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,778,887. The stock's 50-day moving average price is $279.43 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $309.44. Salesforce has a one year low of $212.00 and a one year high of $369.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $233.92 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 40.03, a PEG ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 1.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 1.11 and a quick ratio of 1.11.
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Danaher (DHR)
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The Biotechnology segments offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services that advance, accelerate, and integrate the development and manufacture of therapeutics; cell line and cell culture media development services; cell culture media, process liquids and buffers for manufacturing, chromatography resins, filtration technologies, aseptic fill finish; single-use hardware and consumables and services, such as the design and installation of full manufacturing suites; lab filtration, separation, and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents, membranes, and services; and healthcare filtration solutions.
NYSE:DHR traded up $10.59 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $195.55. The stock had a trading volume of 3,830,297 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,337,800. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 1.05 and a current ratio of 1.40. The stock has a market capitalization of $139.76 billion, a PE ratio of 37.08, a PEG ratio of 2.66 and a beta of 0.86. Danaher has a 52 week low of $171.00 and a 52 week high of $281.70. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $201.64 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $226.01.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and biopharma services in the North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company's Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research, discovery, and production of drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases; and solutions include biosciences, genetic sciences, and bio production to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and government markets.
TMO stock traded up $13.72 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $435.57. 1,601,618 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,717,057. The stock has a market capitalization of $164.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.37, a P/E/G ratio of 2.99 and a beta of 0.86. Thermo Fisher Scientific has a 52 week low of $409.85 and a 52 week high of $627.88. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $495.35 and a 200 day simple moving average of $531.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59, a quick ratio of 1.29 and a current ratio of 1.66.
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