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Unitedhealth Group Inc

NYSE: UNH Healthcare Plans

$379.30

▲ $8.35 (+2.25%) today

Markets closed · 7:32pm ET

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Price Prediction $529.59 +39.6% Our analysts’ 12-month view: target, optimistic case, and floor. UNH price prediction → Earnings EPS vs. the estimate, revenue, and how the market reacted. UNH earnings history →

UNH at a Glance

Valuation

Market cap: $340.5B
P/E ratio: 24.4
Dividend yield: 2.41%

Profitability

Revenue (TTM): $450.5B
Profit margin: 3.1%
EPS (TTM): $15.55

Price

52-week range: $253 – $459
24/7 target: $529.59
Street target: $480.60

Headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN Fiscal year ends December NYSE: UNH unitedhealthgroup.com

About UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is a diversified health care and well-being company operating through two complementary businesses. UnitedHealthcare provides health care benefits to approximately 48.5 million consumers across commercial employer and individual plans, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicaid, and related government programs. Optum serves over 120 million consumers through three divisions: Optum Health delivers integrated value-based care and clinical services; Optum Insight provides technology, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions including autonomous coding and digital prior authorization tools to payers, providers, and life sciences companies; and Optum Rx offers pharmacy care services including a transparent fee-based pharmacy benefit model, specialty pharmacy, and drug cost management. The company is actively advancing reforms around prior authorization simplification, pharmacy transparency, rural hospital support, and affordability initiatives across its businesses. Updated Jul 16, 2026

Latest Activity

Earnings on deck — Oct 12–16

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Oct 9, 1:00pm ET

Q3 earnings season front-loads everything into two mornings: JPMorgan, Goldman, Wells Fargo, Citi, UnitedHealth and Johnson & Johnson all report before the open Tuesday, with Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock and ASML following Wednesday. Of 51 companies on the week, 38 land before the bell, so the tone for rates, credit and chip demand gets set early.

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UNH Coverage

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Investing

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UnitedHealthcare Is Dropping Prior Authorization for Roughly 1,700 Medical Procedures in October. Only About 120 Apply to Medicare Advantage, Where It Denied 17% of Standard Requests

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UnitedHealth, BlackRock, and Stanley Black & Decker Just Paid Shareholders. Here’s What They Got.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does UnitedHealth Group do?

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is a diversified health care and well-being company operating through two complementary businesses.

What is the UNH stock price target?

24/7 Wall St.'s 12-month price target for UNH is $529.59, rated Buy. The Wall Street consensus target is $480.60. UNH price prediction →