UnitedHealth +7% premarket after EPS beats estimates by 10% and raises 2026 outlook as medical cost ratio improves to 83.9%

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/unitedhealth-group-unh-earnings-q1-2026.html

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    11 Comments

    1. Morality aside, this was always an excellent buy when it tanked a few months ago.

      The company is nothing short of incredible at taking advantage of everything the US healthcare system allows them to do.

    2. For those who don’t know medical cost ratio basically means what percentage of premiums they received were paid out to care for sick people.

      84% MCR means 16% of all money received by UNH didn’t go to treatment but to profit.

      I’m a capitalist but Universal healthcare is simply a more efficient system. You eliminate MCR and instead of leakage of 16% 100% of the money goes to treat sick people and you eliminate whole departments of insurance agents, billing department, negotiation department at pharma companies, etc.

    3. randomthrowaway9796 on

      Wow, evil abusive company makes lots of money off of overpriced necessities. Who would’ve guessed?

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