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 April 9, 2025, UNH stock price climbed to $560.95 with 3,843,565 million shares trading.

UNH has a beta of -0.03, 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 $513.11 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Unitedhealth Group Common (De) reported $101 billion in Revenue and $6.81 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-923 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, UNH traded as high as $630.73 and as low as $436.38.

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

UNH has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +24.9% while the SPY ETF lost -3.0%. UNH has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +7.3% and +9.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned -15.6% and -13.8%, respectively.

UNH support price is $543.03 and resistance is $563.13 (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.