Healthcare Stocks To Research – May 15th

UnitedHealth Group, Alphabet, and Hims & Hers Health are the three Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of publicly traded companies operating in the healthcare sector—including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, hospitals and health insurers. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to medical innovation and the defensive characteristics of a sector whose demand tends to remain stable across economic cycles. 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.

Shares of NYSE:UNH traded down $43.85 during trading on Thursday, hitting $264.16. 88,011,391 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,461,898. The company has a market cap of $239.63 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.56. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $478.83 and a 200-day moving average price of $517.83. UnitedHealth Group has a 52 week low of $249.12 and a 52 week high of $630.73. The company has a current ratio of 0.83, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74.

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 down $0.58 on Thursday, hitting $164.79. 16,609,260 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 28,933,394. The company has a market cap of $2.00 trillion, a P/E ratio of 20.47, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.01. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $158.21 and a 200-day moving average price of $175.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a current ratio of 1.84 and a quick ratio of 1.84. Alphabet has a 52 week low of $140.53 and a 52 week high of $207.05.

Hims & Hers Health (HIMS)

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. operates a telehealth consultation platform. It connects consumers to healthcare professionals, enabling them to access medical care for mental health, sexual health, dermatology and primary care. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Shares of HIMS stock traded down $4.13 on Thursday, reaching $56.99. The stock had a trading volume of 43,237,598 shares, compared to its average volume of 19,047,706. Hims & Hers Health has a 12 month low of $13.47 and a 12 month high of $72.98. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.76 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 128.47 and a beta of 1.84. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $34.36 and its two-hundred day moving average is $33.16.