5 Best Cheap Stocks To Watch For 2015

5 Best Cheap Stocks To Watch For 2015: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated(UNH)

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated provides healthcare services in the United States. Its Health Benefits segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; and non-employer based insurance options for purchase by individuals. It also provides health and well-being services for individuals aged 50 and older; and for services dealing with chronic disease and other specialized issues for older individuals, as well as health plans for the beneficiaries of acute and long-term care Medicaid plans. This segment offers its services through a network of 730,000 physicians and other health care professionals, and 5,300 hospitals. Its OptumHealth segment provides health, financial, and ancillary services and products that assist consumers through personalized health management solutions; benefit administration, and clinical and network management; health-based financi al services; behavioral solutions; and specialty benefits, such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, short-term disability, and stop-loss product offerings. The company?s Ingenix segment offers database and data management services, software products, publications, consulting and actuarial services, business process outsourcing services, and pharmaceutical data consulting and research services. Its Prescription Solutions segment provides integrated pharmacy benefit management services comprising retail network pharmacy contracting and management, claims processing, mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy, benefit design consultation, rebate contracting and management, drug utilization review, formulary management programs, disease therapy management, and adherence programs to employer groups, union trusts, managed care organizations, Medicare-contracted plans, Medicaid plans, and third party administrators. The company was founded i! n 1974 and is based in Minn e tonka, Minnesota.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Keith Speights]

  Moving mountains?
  There isn't much for investors to get excited about with this development at first glance. Sure, several publicly traded companies should like the news. For example, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH  ) and Aetna (NYSE: AET  ) sell insurance in Arkansas. These insurers could potentially pick up additional business.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  The S&P 500 rose 0.3% to 1,833.32 today–its 43rd record high this year–while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4% to 16,357.55–its 49th record high in 2013–as E.I. Du Pont De Nemours rose 1.7% to $63.83, Caterpillar advanced 1.1% to $90.91 and Walt Disney finished up 0.8% at $73.83 after giving CEO Bob Iger a pay cut and adding a new board member–Twitter (TWTR) Chairman Jack Dorsey. Just three Dow components–Goldman Sachs (GS), Pfizer (PFE) and United Health Group (UNH) finished in the red.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  On Thursday, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH  ) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever surprises inevitably arise. That way, you'll be less likely to have an uninformed, knee-jerk reaction that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  Wednesday proved to be a good day for the Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) , which closed the day up almost 118 points. But the Dow had to earn its gains, recovering from losses early in the session prompted by domestic economic fears. All it took to boost the Dow, though, was news that Russia's armed forces had withdrawn from the Ukrainian border, taking away some of the risk of economic sanctions that could have d! irectly a! nd dramatically affected many components of the Dow Jones Industrials and other U.S. companies. In the end, though, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH  ) and American Express (NYSE: AXP  ) were the big winners on the day.

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