Healthcare Stocks To Watch Today – April 3rd

Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, Salesforce, Oracle, ServiceNow, and Philip Morris International are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies that operate within the healthcare sector, including areas such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and healthcare services. These stocks represent ownership in businesses that develop, produce, or provide solutions related to human health, and their value can be influenced by regulatory policies, scientific breakthroughs, and evolving public health needs. 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.

Shares of Alphabet stock traded down $4.83 on Thursday, hitting $152.21. 22,095,378 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 27,366,145. The company has a current ratio of 1.84, a quick ratio of 1.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The company has a market cap of $1.86 trillion, a PE ratio of 18.91, a PEG ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.03. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $177.19 and its 200-day moving average price is $176.95. Alphabet has a 52 week low of $147.22 and a 52 week high of $207.05.

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 up $21.80 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $545.00. The stock had a trading volume of 3,003,912 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,231,059. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.91. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $509.15 and its two-hundred day moving average is $542.83. The firm has a market capitalization of $498.52 billion, a P/E ratio of 35.16, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.62. UnitedHealth Group has a 12-month low of $436.38 and a 12-month high of $630.73.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Johnson & Johnson is a holding company, which engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of products in the healthcare field. It operates through the Innovative Medicine and MedTech segments. The Innovative Medicine segment focuses on immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolism, and pulmonary hypertension.

Johnson & Johnson stock traded up $4.38 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $159.74. 6,566,018 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 7,733,120. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a quick ratio of 0.86 and a current ratio of 1.11. The company has a market cap of $384.95 billion, a PE ratio of 24.02, a P/E/G ratio of 2.56 and a beta of 0.47. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $159.36 and a two-hundred day moving average of $155.98. Johnson & Johnson has a 12 month low of $140.68 and a 12 month high of $169.99.

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 NYSE CRM traded down $12.66 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $258.88. 3,838,160 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 6,645,400. The company has a market cap of $248.78 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.58, a P/E/G ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 1.35. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $305.91 and its 200-day simple moving average is $311.50. The company has a quick ratio of 1.11, a current ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. Salesforce has a one year low of $212.00 and a one year high of $369.00.

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 $6.84 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $139.02. 6,343,490 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 9,027,768. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.65, a quick ratio of 0.81 and a current ratio of 0.81. The firm has a market cap of $388.83 billion, a P/E ratio of 33.99, a PEG ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.07. The business has a fifty day moving average of $162.14 and a 200 day moving average of $169.85. Oracle has a 12-month low of $112.78 and a 12-month high of $198.31.

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 $41.39 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $782.64. The company had a trading volume of 1,063,155 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,420,032. The company has a current ratio of 1.10, a quick ratio of 1.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15. The company has a market capitalization of $161.22 billion, a PE ratio of 114.59, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 1.03. ServiceNow has a one year low of $637.99 and a one year high of $1,198.09. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $933.06 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $982.64.

Philip Morris International (PM)

Philip Morris International Inc. operates as a tobacco company working to delivers a smoke-free future and evolving portfolio for the long-term to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector. The company's product portfolio primarily consists of cigarettes and smoke-free products, including heat-not-burn, vapor, and oral nicotine products primarily under the IQOS and ZYN brands; and consumer accessories, such as lighters and matches.

Philip Morris International stock traded up $5.70 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $161.87. The stock had a trading volume of 5,052,421 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,469,763. The company has a market cap of $251.68 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.89, a PEG ratio of 2.65 and a beta of 0.53. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $147.92 and its 200-day moving average price is $132.82. Philip Morris International has a 52 week low of $87.82 and a 52 week high of $163.04.