UNH Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Unitedhealth Group Common (De) | NYSE:UNH)

UnitedHealth Group is one of the largest private health insurers and provides medical benefits to about 51 million members globally, including 1 million outside the US as of December 2024. As a leader in employer-sponsored, self-directed, and government-backed insurance plans, UnitedHealth has obtained massive scale in medical insurance. Along with its insurance assets, UnitedHealth's Optum franchises help create a healthcare services colossus that spans everything from pharmaceutical benefits to providing outpatient care and analytics to both affiliated and third-party customers.

Unitedhealth Group Common (De) trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol UNH.

As of February 23, 2026, UNH stock price declined to $282.34 with 6,566,686 million shares trading.

UNH has a beta of 0.09, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. UNH has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

UNH has a market cap of $255.71 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Unitedhealth Group Common (De) reported $113 billion in Revenue and $2.11 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-327 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, UNH traded as high as $630.73 and as low as $234.60.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that UNH belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.

UNH has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -37.6%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.0%. In the last 3 month period, UNH fell short of the market, returning -11.1%, while SPY returned +3.8%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks UNH has outperformed the stock market by returning +2.4%, while SPY returned -1.7%.

UNH support price is $284.74 and resistance is $295.26 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that UNH shares will trade within this expected range on the day.