Top Healthcare Stocks To Consider - April 24th

ServiceNow, Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, Salesforce, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Merck & Co., Inc., and Vertiv are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks represent shares of publicly traded companies that operate within the broad healthcare sector, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare providers, insurers, and related services. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to firms that research, develop, manufacture, or deliver products and services aimed at maintaining or improving human health, often influenced by factors such as regulatory approvals, patent expirations, demographic trends, and healthcare policy changes. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

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.

NOW traded up $125.87 on Thursday, hitting $938.57. The company had a trading volume of 3,886,506 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,498,709. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $840.59 and a 200-day moving average price of $967.11. ServiceNow has a 12-month low of $637.99 and a 12-month high of $1,198.09. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 1.10 and a current ratio of 1.10. The stock has a market capitalization of $194.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 137.32, a P/E/G ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 1.08.

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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.

GOOGL traded up $3.18 on Thursday, hitting $158.53. The company had a trading volume of 14,323,655 shares, compared to its average volume of 28,293,850. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $163.13 and a 200-day moving average price of $175.47. Alphabet has a 12-month low of $140.53 and a 12-month high of $207.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.84 and a current ratio of 1.84. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.93 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.68, a P/E/G ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.03.

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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 UNH stock traded down $1.28 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $426.68. 3,146,515 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,435,066. UnitedHealth Group has a 1 year low of $417.12 and a 1 year high of $630.73. The stock has a market cap of $390.29 billion, a PE ratio of 27.53, a PEG ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.61. The company has a current ratio of 0.83, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74. The stock's fifty day moving average price is $506.92 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $537.23.

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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 $12.74 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $263.22. 3,723,445 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,781,168. Salesforce has a 1 year low of $212.00 and a 1 year high of $369.00. The stock has a market cap of $252.96 billion, a PE ratio of 43.25, a PEG ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 1.38. The company has a current ratio of 1.11, a quick ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The stock's fifty day moving average price is $276.19 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $308.58.

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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.

Shares of Thermo Fisher Scientific stock traded down $9.96 on Thursday, reaching $421.68. 1,804,658 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,730,348. The company has a quick ratio of 1.29, a current ratio of 1.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59. Thermo Fisher Scientific has a twelve month low of $409.85 and a twelve month high of $627.88. The firm has a market capitalization of $159.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.48, a PEG ratio of 2.99 and a beta of 0.86. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $491.37 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $530.03.

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Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK)

Merck & Co., Inc. is a health care company, which engages in the provision of health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, animal health, and consumer care products. It operates through the following segments: Pharmaceutical, Animal Health, and Other. The Pharmaceutical segment includes human health pharmaceutical and vaccine products.

Shares of Merck & Co., Inc. stock traded down $0.22 on Thursday, reaching $78.52. 9,624,621 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 16,231,358. The company has a quick ratio of 1.15, a current ratio of 1.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79. Merck & Co., Inc. has a twelve month low of $75.93 and a twelve month high of $134.63. The firm has a market capitalization of $198.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.67, a PEG ratio of 0.77 and a beta of 0.40. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $87.12 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $95.61.

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Vertiv (VRT)

Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Shares of Vertiv stock traded up $5.70 on Thursday, reaching $83.70. 7,007,282 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 9,093,007. The company has a quick ratio of 1.02, a current ratio of 1.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19. Vertiv has a twelve month low of $53.60 and a twelve month high of $155.84. The firm has a market capitalization of $31.87 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 65.11, a PEG ratio of 1.07 and a beta of 1.71. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $82.01 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $107.87.

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