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 2025. 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 affiliates and third parties.

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

As of March 19, 2026, UNH stock price declined to $280.44 with 4,997,006 million shares trading.

UNH has a beta of 0.14, 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 $253.99 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 -42.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.6%. In the last 3 month period, UNH fell short of the market, returning -13.7%, while SPY returned -3.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks UNH has outperformed the stock market by returning -2.1%, while SPY returned -3.2%.

UNH support price is $278.90 and resistance is $289.76 (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.