Healthcare Stocks To Watch Today – February 09th

Alphabet, Cloudflare, Salesforce, UnitedHealth Group, Oracle, ServiceNow, and Merck & Co., Inc. are the seven Healthcare stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Healthcare stocks refer to publicly traded companies that operate within the healthcare industry, encompassing pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, medical device manufacturers, healthcare providers, and other related entities. Investors may choose to invest in healthcare stocks to gain exposure to this growing sector and potentially profit from developments in medical advancements, technology, and healthcare policies. 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 $6.26 during trading on Friday, hitting $185.34. 49,226,581 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 27,597,338. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $191.61 and a 200 day moving average price of $174.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a current ratio of 1.84 and a quick ratio of 1.95. Alphabet has a twelve month low of $130.66 and a twelve month high of $207.05. The company has a market cap of $2.27 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.02, a PEG ratio of 1.39 and a beta of 0.99.

Cloudflare (NET)

Cloudflare, Inc. operates as a cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses worldwide. The company provides an integrated cloud-based security solution to secure a range of combination of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, software-as-a-service applications, and IoT devices; and website and application security products comprising web application firewall, bot management, distributed denial of service, API gateways, SSL/TLS encryption, script management, security center, and rate limiting products.

Shares of NET stock traded up $25.36 on Friday, hitting $166.88. 15,069,692 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,196,727. The company has a 50 day moving average of $118.89 and a 200 day moving average of $96.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.32, a current ratio of 3.37 and a quick ratio of 3.37. Cloudflare has a 12 month low of $66.24 and a 12 month high of $171.38.

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 $5.00 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $325.81. The company had a trading volume of 7,612,759 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,522,191. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $338.97 and a 200 day simple moving average of $300.67. The company has a market cap of $311.80 billion, a P/E ratio of 53.59, a P/E/G ratio of 2.66 and a beta of 1.31. Salesforce has a fifty-two week low of $212.00 and a fifty-two week 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.

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 $3.36 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $526.68. 3,344,880 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,348,924. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 0.83. UnitedHealth Group has a 12 month low of $436.38 and a 12 month high of $630.73. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $529.18 and its 200 day moving average price is $564.37. The stock has a market capitalization of $484.69 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.98, a P/E/G ratio of 1.45 and a beta of 0.61.

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.

NYSE:ORCL traded up $2.18 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $174.53. 9,981,617 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 14,755,394. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $170.42 and a 200 day simple moving average of $164.50. Oracle has a one year low of $106.51 and a one year high of $198.31. The stock has a market capitalization of $488.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.39 and a beta of 1.05. The company has a current ratio of 0.81, a quick 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 $15.51 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $1,007.79. 1,385,656 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,777,070. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $1,080.32 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $965.20. ServiceNow has a 52 week low of $637.99 and a 52 week high of $1,198.09. The stock has a market capitalization of $207.61 billion, a PE ratio of 147.55, a PEG ratio of 4.76 and a beta of 0.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 1.10 and a current ratio of 1.10.

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.

Shares of NYSE MRK traded down $0.79 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $87.26. The stock had a trading volume of 15,806,931 shares, compared to its average volume of 14,162,434. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $98.72 and its 200 day moving average price is $106.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79, a quick ratio of 1.15 and a current ratio of 1.36. Merck & Co., Inc. has a twelve month low of $87.12 and a twelve month high of $134.63. The firm has a market cap of $220.73 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.97, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.83 and a beta of 0.38.