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The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and UnitedHealth Group wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made ...
Shares of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) were pulling back Thursday after the company delivered underwhelming fourth-quarter results, as sales were weaker than expected and its costs rose. As of 1 ...
The U.S. healthcare system is a behemoth -- in 2023, industrywide expenditures totaled $4.9 trillion, or $14,570 per American. UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is at the industry's center. The ...
Selling insurance products under UnitedHealthcare, and health care services under the Optum brand, it is the world's ninth-largest company by revenue and the largest health care company by revenue. The company is ranked 8th on the 2024 Fortune Global 500. [4] UnitedHealth Group had a market capitalization of $460.3 billion as of December 20, 2024.
[125] [126] As of December 17, 2024, UnitedHealth Group lost more than $110 billion in market value since the killing, with similar groups experiencing losses. Steve Kopack, writing for NBC News, noted that "the downturns largely reflect investors' reactions to public outrage at the health care system in the wake of the killing". [127]
In 1986, UICI made its first public stock offering. In October 2004, The MEGA Life & Health Insurance Co, a subsidiary of UICI, acquired HealthMarket Inc, which was a small business insurer. Then, in 2005, a group of private equity investors headed by The Blackstone Group acquired HealthMarkets Inc, moving the company from public to private ...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed outside of an investor day meeting in New York City on Dec. 4. Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Md., was arrested for the murder days after the attack.
UnitedHealth posted a better-than-expected profit in the final quarter of 2024, but a nagging rise in medical costs and care utilization surprised Wall Street. Shares of the health care giant slid ...