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UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) is in the Health Care Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $75.4B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $4.6B
- Market Cap
- Jul 23 2008
- $34.1B
Latest News and Analysis
Getting Through the Mess in the Markets
Mike Stathis submits: I have several investment strategies in play to exploit the macroeconomic trends that continue to unfold. Many of these strategies have paid off handsomely – shorting the financials, homebuilders, and mortgage companies – and playing the market trading ranges. While I feel there is still more to...
UnitedHealth: Investors Lose Faith in Management
Eddy Elfenbein submits: UnitedHealth earnings fall 73%, but shares jump It’s true. UnitedHealth UNH reported earnings of $337 million, down from $1.22 billion for last year’s Q2. On an earnings-per-share basis, UNH earned 27 cents compared with 89 cents last year. by Eddy Elfenbein
UnitedHealth Group Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
UnitedHealth Group UNH Q2 2008 Earnings Call
UnitedHealth Profit Drops on Settlement Charge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group Inc UNH on Tuesday reported a 72 percent drop in quarterly profit on a big charge from a legal settlement and challenges in its businesses serving seniors and employers, although its results surpassed previously lowered...
Earnings Preview: UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group UNH is expected to report Q2 earnings before market open Tuesday, with a conference call scheduled for 9:00 am ET. Guidance Analysts are expecting a profit of 64c on revenue of $20.03B. The consensus range for EPS is 64c to 67c, with a revenue range of $19.69B to...
Health Insurers Seek Rebound After Brutal First Half
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Health insurers will need to show some signs of stability when they report second-quarter earnings, beginning on Tuesday, if they are to lure back investors to their beaten-down stocks. Overall, the managed health-care group is expected...
Five Strategies to Survive the Markets
Glenn Rogers submits: Are we having fun yet? These last few weeks have been about as difficult a period as I can remember for trying to make money in the stock market, whether your view is short or long term. Nothing much has been working. Even the energy stocks have...
This Week's Key Earnings Reports
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: This week is another busy earnings week. Below we highlight key companies expected to report from July 21st through the 25th. For each company, we provide the current earnings per share estimate and change in that estimate over the last month. We also...
7 Stocks I'm Buying Now
Mike Stathis submits: As the markets continue their decline, there are a few stocks I think are now priced at a great value. Nvidia by Mike Stathis
As UnitedHealth Lowers Guidance, Stock Looks Cheap
Eddy Elfenbein submits: As I expected, UnitedHealth UNH lowered its profit guidance for this year. The company now sees EPS coming in between $2.95 to $3.05. Chief Executive Stephen J. Hemsley noted the quarter's results were hurt by lower margins, adding that second-quarter weakness also...
UnitedHealth Group Hits the Deferred Care Wall
Michael Steinberg submits: UnitedHealth Group’s UNH downward earnings guidance and the follow up conference call showed a continuation of middle market companies reducing healthcare benefits and seniors hitting the Medicare market in the worst shape ever. UnitedHealth showed complacency in accepting higher medical costs with few practical ways of...
Backdating Settlement Doesn't End UnitedHealth's Problems
An old health-insurance scandal just keeps on giving at UnitedHealth, which today settled a shareholder lawsuit over the way it backdated stock options for its former CEO Bill McGuire and other execs. The insurer will pay $895 million to resolve claims by Calpers, the giant California public-pension fund, that the...
The Current Market Atmosphere: Easy Money Hard to Come by
Mike Stathis submits: You've all probably seen or heard about the recently released Harvard Housing study. Among other things, the report discusses the fact that the median wage-earner is unable to afford the median priced home and forecasts a drop in real estate prices to the 1999 level. The fact...
UnitedHealth Group: Dominant Industry Leader on Sale
Dave Hutchison submits: UnitedHealth Group UNH is a strong franchise that benefits from the increasingly important role that managed care plays in the health care industry. The advantages of scale and local market share leadership are the foundations behind UnitedHealth’s position. At current prices in the low $30s,...
Buffett Doubles Down on Embattled Insurers
Lots of people are down on the prospects for many big U.S. health plans, which have been battered by declining enrollment, bad claims management, poor investment performance, and continued run-ins with state insurance regulators. But uber-investor Warren Buffett sees a silver lining somewhere in all that bad news. ...
UnitedHealth Group Inc., Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
UnitedHealth Group Inc., Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Insurers Face Mounting Troubles, Many of Their Own Making
Unhappy days are here again for health insurers, who are suddenly facing higher costs, customer-service problems and aggressive probes by state regulators, particularly in California. Some of these problems stem from unexpected events and simple business mistakes. But many reflect the inherent contradictions of an industry whose...
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UnitedHealth Group Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
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- Incorporated: 1977
- CEO: Mr. Stephen J. Hemsley
Unitedhealth Group is a health and well-being company that operates through four segments as of Dec 31 2007. The Health Care Services segment includes Co.'s Commercial Markets (UnitedHealthcare and Uniprise), Ovations and AmeriChoice businesses. The OptumHealth segment provides health, financial and ancillary benefit services and products. The Ingenix segment provides database and data management services, software products, publications, consulting and outsourced services as well as pharmaceutical consulting and research services. The Prescription Solutions segment provides integrated pharmacy benefit management services through retail network pharmacies and mail service facilities.
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Richard T. Burke
Chairman
Mr. Stephen J. Hemsley
Mr. William C. Ballard Jr.
Mr. Robert J. Darretta
Ms. Michele J. Hooper
Mr. Douglas W. Leatherdale
Dr. Gail R. Wilensky Ph.D.
Contact Information
9900 Bren Road East
Minnetonka, MN
http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com
952 936-1300
NAICS Code
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers: 524114Brought to you by IBMSponsored Resources
