Top Insurance Stocks To Follow Today – May 21st

Tesla, UnitedHealth Group, and Berkshire Hathaway are the three Insurance stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Insurance stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that underwrite and sell insurance policies, covering areas such as life, health, property, and casualty. Investors in these stocks gain exposure to the company’s earnings from underwriting premiums and investment income generated by the insurer’s reserve funds. Because insurers’ profitability depends on risk management, claim payouts, and interest rates, insurance stocks often have performance patterns distinct from other financial sectors. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Insurance stocks within the last several days.

Tesla (TSLA)

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Automotive, and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells automotive regulatory credits; and non-warranty after-sales vehicle, used vehicles, body shop and parts, supercharging, retail merchandise, and vehicle insurance services.

Shares of TSLA traded down $10.46 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $333.36. The company had a trading volume of 80,867,906 shares, compared to its average volume of 107,685,500. Tesla has a 1 year low of $167.41 and a 1 year high of $488.54. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $271.29 and its 200-day simple moving average is $331.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a current ratio of 2.02. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.07 trillion, a P/E ratio of 163.52, a P/E/G ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.43.

UnitedHealth Group (UNH)

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health care company in the United States. The company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older addressing their needs; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance and health care programs; and health and dental benefits, and hospital and clinical services, as well as health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage.

Shares of UNH traded down $18.05 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $303.53. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 37,390,988 shares, compared to its average volume of 10,180,750. The stock has a market cap of $275.34 billion, a PE ratio of 19.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.56. UnitedHealth Group has a 12-month low of $248.88 and a 12-month high of $630.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.91. The company’s 50 day moving average is $464.33 and its 200 day moving average is $510.17.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

Shares of BRK.B stock traded down $1.04 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $507.70. 2,125,653 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,973,213. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.10 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.26, a P/E/G ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.88. Berkshire Hathaway has a 12-month low of $401.58 and a 12-month high of $542.07. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $520.22 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $487.61.