Healthcare Stocks To Watch Today – March 15th

Alphabet, Intuitive Surgical, Salesforce, UnitedHealth Group, ServiceNow, Oracle, and Merck & Co., Inc. are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks are shares of companies involved in the healthcare sector, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and healthcare services. They are often seen as defensive investments since the demand for healthcare remains relatively stable, even during economic downturns. 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 NASDAQ:GOOGL traded up $2.73 during trading on Friday, reaching $165.49. The stock had a trading volume of 31,966,064 shares, compared to its average volume of 30,160,998. Alphabet has a 52 week low of $140.03 and a 52 week high of $207.05. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $185.70 and its 200 day moving average price is $176.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a current ratio of 1.84 and a quick ratio of 1.84. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.02 trillion, a PE ratio of 20.56, a P/E/G ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.02.

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets products that enable physicians and healthcare providers to enhance the quality of and access to minimally invasive care in the United States and internationally. The company offers the da Vinci Surgical System that enables complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach; and Ion endoluminal system, which extends its commercial offerings beyond surgery into diagnostic procedures enabling minimally invasive biopsies in the lung.

ISRG traded up $7.66 during trading on Friday, reaching $484.44. 4,238,627 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,444,104. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $567.46 and its 200-day moving average price is $531.26. Intuitive Surgical has a fifty-two week low of $364.17 and a fifty-two week high of $616.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $172.55 billion, a PE ratio of 75.58, a P/E/G ratio of 5.85 and a beta of 1.43.

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 $8.02 on Friday, hitting $279.76. The stock had a trading volume of 6,974,848 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,135,349. Salesforce has a twelve month low of $212.00 and a twelve month high of $369.00. The firm has a market cap of $268.85 billion, a P/E ratio of 46.01, a PEG ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 1.35. 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 company has a fifty day moving average price of $318.03 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $308.70.

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 up $7.00 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $488.52. The company had a trading volume of 3,912,171 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,901,614. UnitedHealth Group has a one year low of $436.38 and a one year high of $630.73. The company has a market capitalization of $446.85 billion, a PE ratio of 31.52, a price-to-earnings-growth 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 firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $511.36 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $550.33.

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 $34.13 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $845.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,852,553 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,336,448. 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 company’s 50-day moving average is $992.95 and its 200-day moving average is $983.44. ServiceNow has a 52 week low of $637.99 and a 52 week high of $1,198.09. The firm has a market cap of $174.22 billion, a PE ratio of 123.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 1.03.

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.

Shares of ORCL traded up $1.70 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $149.36. 9,323,005 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 12,233,402. The company has a market cap of $417.76 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.52, a P/E/G ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.07. Oracle has a fifty-two week low of $112.78 and a fifty-two week high of $198.31. The company has a quick ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 0.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.65. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $165.80 and its 200 day moving average is $169.41.

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 $0.01 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $94.72. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 12,676,238 shares, compared to its average volume of 10,125,151. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79, a current ratio of 1.36 and a quick ratio of 1.15. The company has a market capitalization of $239.27 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.07, a PEG ratio of 0.77 and a beta of 0.35. Merck & Co., Inc. has a twelve month low of $81.04 and a twelve month high of $134.63. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $93.57 and a 200-day simple moving average of $101.99.