Unitedhealth Group Stock News

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Shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. dropped 3.7% in afternoon trading Thursday, enough to pace the Dow Jones Industrial Average''s components in declines. The $18.22 price decline in the health insurance company''s stock was shaving about 120 points off the price of the Dow, which was dropping 144 points, or 0.4%. In comparison, the S&P 500 was up 0.1%. The selloff in UnitedHealth''s stock comes after peer Humana Inc. slashed its estimate of 2022 Medicare Advantage membership growth, amid higher-than-expected terminations during the annual election period. Humana''s stock plunged 19.7%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Shares of Humana Inc. tumbled 13.0% toward a three-month low in afternoon trading Thursday, to pace the S&P 500''s decliners, after the health insurance services company slashed its full-year membership estimate for its Medicare Advantage products. Humana''s stock was headed for the biggest one-day selloff since it slid 13.9% on March 16, 2020. Humana disclosed earlier Thursday that it now expects 2022 net membership growth for its individual Medicare Advantage products of 150,000 to 200,000 members, down from a previous estimate of 325,000 to 375,000 due primarily to "higher than anticipated terminations" during the annual election period, combined with expectations of higher than originally expected terminations for the rest of 2022. The company expects 2022 adjusted earnings per share of approximately $20.50, compared with the FactSet consensus of $20.53. Meanwhile, for the Humana Premier Rx Plan (PDP), the company now estimates a net membership decline of 125,000 members in 2022, compared with previous estimates of a loss of "a few hundred thousand members," citing better-than-expected sales of the Walmart Value plan and lower-than-anticipated terminations.

The "Mad Money" host expects UnitedHealth, McDonald''s and Walgreens to help power the Dow higher in 2022.

Analysts have provided the following ratings for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH ) within the last quarter:

Analysts have provided the following ratings for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH)

''Our U.S. equity strategy team expects 2022 to be a year of solid but more moderate returns relative to 2021,'' RBC said.

Insperity Inc (NYSE: NSP ) has extended its 20-year medical and dental coverage relationship with UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH ) company. The parties have partnered since January 2002. The extension includes medical coverage Full story available on Benzinga.com

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UnitedHealth Group Inc.''s (NYSE: UNH ) short percent of float has fallen 3.17% since last its last report. The company recently reported that it has 5.74 million shares sold short , which is 0.61% of all regular shares that are available for trading. Based on its trading volume, it would take traders 1.9 days to cover their short positions on average. Why Short Interest Matters Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope that the price will fall. Traders make money from short selling if the price Full story available on Benzinga.com