Top Healthcare Stocks Worth Watching – March 30th

Alphabet, Oracle, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and UnitedHealth Group are the five Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares issued by companies operating in the healthcare industry, including sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and healthcare services. These stocks offer investors exposure to firms that are directly involved in improving public health, while their performance can be influenced by factors such as regulatory approvals, technological innovations, and the overall economic environment. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Healthcare stocks within the last several days.

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 down $7.91 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $154.33. The company had a trading volume of 48,610,349 shares, compared to its average volume of 27,276,841. Alphabet has a 12-month low of $147.22 and a 12-month high of $207.05. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $179.66 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $176.92. The stock has a market cap of $1.88 trillion, a PE ratio of 19.17, a P/E/G ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.84 and a current ratio of 1.84.

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.

Oracle stock traded down $5.03 during trading on Friday, hitting $140.75. The stock had a trading volume of 13,138,087 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,963,386. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $163.94 and its two-hundred day moving average is $170.22. Oracle has a 1 year low of $112.78 and a 1 year high of $198.31. The stock has a market cap of $393.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.41, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.07. The company has a quick ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 0.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.65.

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 NOW traded down $31.13 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $796.61. The stock had a trading volume of 1,758,174 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,408,303. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a current ratio of 1.10 and a quick ratio of 1.10. The firm has a market cap of $164.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 116.63, a PEG ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 1.03. ServiceNow has a 52 week low of $637.99 and a 52 week high of $1,198.09. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $950.30 and a 200-day moving average price of $984.09.

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.

Salesforce stock traded down $7.77 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $270.04. The stock had a trading volume of 4,972,275 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,642,995. The firm has a market capitalization of $259.51 billion, a PE ratio of 44.42, a P/E/G ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 1.35. Salesforce has a 12 month low of $212.00 and a 12 month high of $369.00. The company has a quick ratio of 1.11, a current ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $309.39 and its 200 day moving average price is $311.13.

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 down $0.25 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $515.47. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,378,211 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,268,981. UnitedHealth Group has a one year low of $436.38 and a one year high of $630.73. The firm has a market capitalization of $471.51 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.26, a P/E/G ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.62. 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 has a fifty day moving average price of $508.81 and a 200 day moving average price of $544.24.