Healthcare Stocks To Keep An Eye On – April 27th

by · The Cerbat Gem

Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, ServiceNow, Merck & Co., Inc., Salesforce, Johnson & Johnson, and Philip Morris International are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 429 (Too Many Requests). 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 up $2.68 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $161.96. The company had a trading volume of 55,957,898 shares, compared to its average volume of 28,290,487. Alphabet has a 12-month low of $140.53 and a 12-month high of $207.05. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $162.18 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $175.52. The stock has a market cap of $1.97 trillion, a PE ratio of 20.12, a P/E/G ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.84 and a current ratio of 1.84.

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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.

UnitedHealth Group stock traded down $6.05 during trading on Friday, hitting $418.20. The stock had a trading volume of 9,255,934 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,482,211. The stock has a market cap of $380.66 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.98, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.61. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $503.28 and its two-hundred day moving average is $534.62. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 0.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74. UnitedHealth Group has a 1 year low of $412.02 and a 1 year high of $630.73.

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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 stock traded up $7.51 on Friday, hitting $946.08. 2,886,611 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,504,540. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $838.68 and its two-hundred day moving average is $967.71. ServiceNow has a one year low of $637.99 and a one year high of $1,198.09. The firm has a market capitalization of $195.84 billion, a PE ratio of 138.52, a P/E/G ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 1.08. The company has a current ratio of 1.10, a quick ratio of 1.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15.

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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.

NYSE MRK traded up $2.99 during trading on Friday, hitting $82.83. 28,374,477 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 11,908,288. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79, a quick ratio of 1.15 and a current ratio of 1.36. The stock has a market capitalization of $208.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.31, a PEG ratio of 0.77 and a beta of 0.40. Merck & Co., Inc. has a 12-month low of $75.93 and a 12-month high of $134.63. The business has a 50 day moving average of $87.05 and a 200-day moving average of $95.13.

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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 NYSE CRM traded up $3.17 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $267.87. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 5,649,322 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,824,128. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $273.75 and a 200 day moving average price of $308.41. The firm has a market capitalization of $257.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 44.06, a P/E/G ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 1.38. Salesforce has a one year low of $212.00 and a one year high of $369.00. The company has a current ratio of 1.11, a quick ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14.

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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 down $0.39 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $154.54. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 8,642,889 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,928,484. The company has a market capitalization of $371.83 billion, a P/E ratio of 23.24, a PEG ratio of 2.56 and a beta of 0.49. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $159.48 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $154.84. Johnson & Johnson has a 12-month low of $140.68 and a 12-month high of $169.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a quick ratio of 0.86 and a current ratio of 1.11.

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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.

Shares of Philip Morris International stock traded up $0.12 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $170.19. The company had a trading volume of 7,755,677 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,559,348. Philip Morris International has a one year low of $94.42 and a one year high of $171.63. The firm has a market cap of $264.90 billion, a PE ratio of 37.74, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.65 and a beta of 0.46. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $155.51 and a 200 day simple moving average of $137.69.

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