UnitedHealth Stock News

Earlier this year, Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) and key player in the U.S. healthcare sector, suffered a catastrophic ransomware attack attributed to the Russian-speaking group ALPHV/BlackCat. We already knew this breach stood as one of the largest in history.

Health insurer UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) just reported third-quarter earnings results that handily beat analyst expectations on the top and bottom lines, but its outlook for the rest of the year and for 2025 disappointed investors who sent UNH stock careening 8% lower.

More than 100 million individuals had private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.

The February hack at UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare unit affected the data of 100 million people, the U.S. health department's website showed, making it the largest data breach in the country.

Certain healthcare stocks rank among the “Harris trades,” meaning stocks that could rally on a win by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Meanwhile, small-cap banks are among the stocks that could benefit from a second Trump presidency.

On October 15, UnitedHealth Group published financial results for the third quarter of 2024, which surprised me primarily due to the sharp increase in Optum Rx revenue. Optum Rx's revenue reached about $34.2 billion in the third quarter of 2024, up 18.5% year-on-year. Overall, due to year-over-year revenue growth in UnitedHealth Group's two main divisions, Optum and UnitedHealthcare, it repurch...

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Als größter Krankenversicherer der USA schaut UnitedHealth ganz genau hin, ob Donald Trump oder Kamala Harris in das Weiße Haus einziehen wird.