UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH) earnings on July 16, 2026
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Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
UnitedHealth jumped as much as 10% after earnings were released, but most of those gains disappeared by the close, ending up only 1% higher.
UNH price around the earnings
423.38
Change: +1.2%
2026-07-16, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
415.08
428.72
442.36
456.00
418.52
July 16, 2026
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
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- End of the measured window
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
Strong trend strength and recent analyst upgrades, but price below support levels and medical cost concerns persist.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Score peaked at 50.8 on July 15, dropped to 25.3 today — trajectory descent contexts cooling setup.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 10
- Strong buy: 6
- Buy: 16
- Hold: 4
- Sell: 1
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 6
- Buy
- 16
- Hold
- 4
- Sell
- 1
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 14, 2026 · TD Cowen: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
- July 14, 2026 · Truist Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- July 14, 2026 · Keybanc: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 13, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 9, 2026 · RBC Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 6, 2026 · HSBC: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
- June 30, 2026 · Morgan Stanley: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- June 24, 2026 · B of A Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- June 17, 2026 · Leerink Partners: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- June 8, 2026 · Mizuho: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Neutral
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (6)
- UnitedHealth, Abbott Laboratories And 3 Stocks To Watch Heading Into Thursday — Benzinga
- Netflix's Q3 Earnings Report Could Lead to $21.5 Billion Swing in Market Value — Benzinga
- How to Earn $500 a Month From UnitedHealth Stock Ahead of Q2 Earnings — Benzinga
- UnitedHealth Stock in the Spotlight Ahead of Q2 Earnings Thursday — Benzinga
- TD Cowen Maintains Hold on UnitedHealth Group, Raises Price Target to $430 — Benzinga
- Truist Securities Maintains Buy on UnitedHealth Group, Raises Price Target to $480 — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.2%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -3.0%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +3.0%
- 30-day change (30d)
- +10.1%
- 30-day relative strength
- +10.1%
- Benchmark change (0d)
- +0.0%
- Nearest support
- 417.36
- Nearest resistance
- 419.23
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.72
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +1.4%
- April 21, 2026: actual EPS 7.23 vs estimate 6.6 (surprise +9.5%)
- January 27, 2026: actual EPS 2.11 vs estimate 2.11 (surprise +0.2%)
- October 28, 2025: actual EPS 2.92 vs estimate 2.81 (surprise +4.0%)
- July 29, 2025: actual EPS 4.08 vs estimate 4.45 (surprise -8.2%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 5.3%
- 75th percentile move
- 7.1%
- 90th percentile move
- 10.8%
- Up / down moves
- 10 / 9
- Average up move
- +4.0%
- Average down move
- -8.0%
Monitoring and close
What UnitedHealth Group Incorporated reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +1.2%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 10.2%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%