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Shares of UnitedHealth Are Plummeting - Will This Trend Continue?

This afternoon we watched UnitedHealth drop -1.4% to a price of $475.84 per share. The large-cap Medical Specialities company is now trading -18.58% below its average target price of $584.43. Analysts have set target prices ranging from $514.0 to $650.0 per share for UnitedHealth, and have given the stock an average rating of buy.

UnitedHealth's short interest — meaning the percentage of the share float that is being shorted — is lower than average at 0.5%. The stock's short ratio is 1.3. The company's insiders own 0.27% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests.

Another number to watch is the company's rate of institutional share ownership, which now stands at 90.0%. In conclusion, we believe there is mixed market sentiment regarding UnitedHealth.

Institutions Invested in UnitedHealth

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2023-03-31 Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 9% 84,333,380 $40,129,195,230
2023-03-31 Blackrock Inc. 8% 74,928,539 $35,653,995,723
2023-03-31 FMR, LLC 5% 45,515,091 $21,657,900,734
2023-03-31 State Street Corporation 5% 45,548,879 $21,673,978,416
2023-03-31 Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 3% 31,591,890 $15,032,684,821
2023-03-31 Capital World Investors 3% 29,385,548 $13,982,819,052
2023-03-31 Wellington Management Group, LLP 3% 24,079,140 $11,457,817,889
2023-03-31 JP Morgan Chase & Company 2% 19,864,394 $9,452,273,168
2023-03-31 Geode Capital Management, LLC 2% 17,101,395 $8,137,527,734
2023-03-31 Morgan Stanley 2% 14,933,381 $7,105,899,960
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