Top Medical Stocks To Watch Today – November 4th

HCA Healthcare, Boston Scientific, and Stryker are the three Medical stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Medical stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in healthcare, such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, or healthcare services. Investors may consider these stocks for their potential growth driven by medical innovation and demand, while also recognizing risks such as regulation, clinical-trial failures, and changing healthcare policies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Medical stocks within the last several days.

HCA Healthcare (HCA)

HCA Healthcare, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates hospitals and related healthcare entities in the United States. It operates general and acute care hospitals that offers medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy.

HCA traded up $50.19 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $513.04. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,700,753 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,345,525. The firm has a market capitalization of $107.17 billion, a PE ratio of 16.96, a PEG ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 1.11. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $438.88 and a 200 day simple moving average of $444.76. HCA Healthcare has a fifty-two week low of $353.99 and a fifty-two week high of $556.52.

Boston Scientific (BSX)

Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices for use in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It operates through two segments, MedSurg and Cardiovascular. The company offers devices to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal and pulmonary conditions, such as resolution clips, biliary stent systems, stents and electrocautery enhanced delivery systems, direct visualization systems, digital catheters, and single-use duodenoscopes; devices to treat urological conditions, including ureteral stents, catheters, baskets, guidewires, sheaths, balloons, single-use digital flexible ureteroscopes, holmium laser systems, artificial urinary sphincter, laser system, fiber, and hydrogel systems; and devices to treat neurological movement disorders and manage chronic pain, such as spinal cord stimulator system, proprietary programming software, radiofrequency generator, indirect decompression systems, practice optimization tools, and deep brain stimulation system.

Shares of Boston Scientific stock traded up $2.94 on Wednesday, hitting $46.44. The company had a trading volume of 16,508,185 shares, compared to its average volume of 18,761,873. Boston Scientific has a 52 week low of $39.57 and a 52 week high of $105.65. The company has a market cap of $67.30 billion, a PE ratio of 19.63, a PEG ratio of 1.29 and a beta of 0.60. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $44.55 and a 200-day simple moving average of $56.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a current ratio of 1.24 and a quick ratio of 0.74.

Stryker (SYK)

Stryker Corporation operates as a medical technology company. The company operates through two segments, MedSurg and Neurotechnology, and Orthopaedics and Spine. The Orthopaedics and Spine segment provides implants for use in total joint replacements, such as hip, knee and shoulder, and trauma and extremities surgeries.

NYSE:SYK traded up $26.02 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $336.57. 2,095,548 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,477,604. The company has a quick ratio of 1.30, a current ratio of 2.18 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.60. The company has a market capitalization of $128.13 billion, a P/E ratio of 35.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.11 and a beta of 0.78. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $292.03 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $324.02. Stryker has a 12 month low of $267.00 and a 12 month high of $389.33.