How is UnitedHealth (UNH) doing?

UnitedHealth is a company in the medical, healthcare plans industry, based in Eden Prairie, MN, worth $344.5B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

UnitedHealth shares are up 3% over the past year, 11 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Broken Year. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 45th percentile on market beat, the 42nd on staying power and the 13th on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards, including 1st on “Who reports next, and what is expected?”.

$379.30+3% in a yearWorth $344.5B

Compare with ELV · CI · CVS · HUM · CNC · MOH · DVA

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

UNH against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. UnitedHealth +3%, the S&P 500 +16%.

UNHS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Broken Year

LaggingErraticSlowingSold

Lagging, erratic, a soft business, and sellers in charge.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Broken Year this month; Exhausted Rally before that.

Also Broken Year (94 in all): CTAS · MSI · MCD · LHX · RSG · COR

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Aerospace-defense, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Defense primes and steady-demand contractors.

UNH, past year+3%16 of 41 in the group

Rest of the group0%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

UnitedHealth is +3% over the past year, against flat for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 16th of 41 in Aerospace-defense.

UNHRest of the group

Best in the groupCNC Centene+70%COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated+64%CAH Cardinal Health+51%

Worst in the groupPSN Parsons−50%ROL Rollins−45%AXON Axon Enterprise−42%

Its closest rivalsELV Elevance Health+14%CI Cigna−8%CVS CVS Health+12%HUM Humana+45%CNC Centene+70%

Aerospace-defense on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual UnitedHealth typically moves 2.5% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 63% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.5%about $9.33 a share

Its usual2.8%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.5×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.9%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−30%now 13% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks46%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.3

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.76%

UNH on our dashboards

Every question where UnitedHealth appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with UNH highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which companies are worth the most? What’s leading	–	38 of 50	Market value $344.5B · Places, 1Y −11 · Value, 1Y +5%
Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings	92Raised	1 of 106	Estimate change, 1M +1.0% · Expected EPS growth −35% · Stock vs S&P, 1M −5.0 pts
How much do stocks move on earnings? Earnings	91Big mover	35 of 60	Reports 2026-10-13 · Typical move 9.4% · Largest 27%
Where are analysts raising estimates? Earnings	92Raised	42 of 60	Change, 1M +1.0% · Change, 3M +8.5% · Next-year EPS $19.95
Which dividends are growing fastest? Dividends and buybacks	81Fast	54 of 60	5Y +13% a yr · Latest raise +5% · Yield 2.4%
What is Congress trading? Who’s buying and selling	3Sold	30 of 60	Buying 0 · Selling 3

Go deeper on Stox

UNH’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see UNH’s full profile on Stox.

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