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How to screen for Healthcare stocks

Are healthcare revenue and profit measuring the same business model? Inspect the real product screen and a source-backed three-period company comparison.

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TL;DR

Healthcare revenue size does not rank business quality. UnitedHealth's FY2025 revenue rose while operating profit fell, taking operating margin from 8.07% to 4.24%. Johnson & Johnson's reported net income includes different business effects, and the API did not return its operating income for the compared periods; missing is not zero. Compare insurers with insurance economics and drug or device businesses with their own segment measures. The broad October 2026 industry screen includes overlapping retail exposure and does not impose a profitability rule.

See the screen in NexusTrade

NexusTrade Healthcare stocks screen with the industry filter and Market Cap descending selected
Actual NexusTrade screen captured October 10, 2026. Values shown belong to the captured product snapshot.

The captured product view uses industry=healthcare, Market Cap and Descending. On October 10, 2026 it displayed 100 matches. That is the number shown by this view, not a claim that it covers every listed company.

The image records the interface and company matches at capture time. Prices and ratios are stored observations; the capture date is not their market date. Open the current company profile and check its observation dates before using those figures.

Are healthcare revenue and profit measuring the same business model?

UnitedHealth is an insurer and services business; Johnson & Johnson reports drug and medical-technology businesses. Their revenue sizes do not rank healthcare quality.

Test the exposure with reported financials

UnitedHealth revenue rose as operating margin fell

Scale: 0 to 8.71 % · zero baseline

UNH FY2023

  • Operating margin+8.71%

UNH FY2024

  • Operating margin+8.07%

UNH FY2025

  • Operating margin+4.24%

Reported UNH fiscal years ending December 31. JNJ operating income was not returned, so no zero or substitute margin is plotted.

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UNH · 2023-12-31$371.622B$32.358B / 8.71%$22.381B$25.682B
UNH · 2024-12-31$400.278B$32.287B / 8.07%$14.405B$20.705B
UNH · 2025-12-31$447.567B$18.964B / 4.24%$12.056B$16.075B
JNJ · 2023-12-31$85.159BNot returned / Not returned$35.153B$18.248B
JNJ · 2024-12-29$88.821BNot returned / Not returned$14.066B$19.842B
JNJ · 2025-12-28$94.193BNot returned / Not returned$26.804B$19.698B

Operating margin = operating income ÷ revenue. Not returned means missing, never zero. Source FCF definitions require the reconciliation below.

Read-only NexusTrade sec_edgar fundamentals retrieved October 12, 2026 and checked against the original annual statements. Amounts below are USD billions; the retained raw response uses USD. These are historical fiscal periods, not a live quote or a forecast.

Apply the condition and explain the result

  1. Reported inputs

    UnitedHealth FY2024 → FY2025 revenue grew $400.278B → $447.567B, while operating profit fell $32.287B → $18.964B. Margin fell 8.07% → 4.24%.

  2. Calculated comparison

    JNJ FY2023 net income of $35.153B includes discontinued consumer-business effects. The API does not return operating income for these periods; missing is not zero or a license to substitute net income.

What the industry tag cannot establish

Compare claims costs and insurance economics within insurers, and product/segment margins within drug or device businesses. The broad capture includes WMT; retail exposure is not a pure healthcare company. The worked issuers are additional examples.

Reproduce this screen and comparison

Open the actual filter, check its current result dates, then reproduce the financial calculation. An industry-only URL does not silently implement an extra profitability or cash-flow rule. Record any added condition explicitly.

Check fiscal periods and public availability

Inspect every input period, publication date and source

Select FY rows by periodEnd instead of assuming the array is latest first. Source statements may present comparative years in one filing. Their later publication does not prove those exact restated values were available at the earlier historical date.

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UNH20232023-12-312024-02-28Annual FY, USD
UNH20242024-12-312025-02-27Annual FY, USD
UNH20252025-12-312026-03-02Annual FY, USD
JNJ20232023-12-312024-02-16Annual FY, USD
JNJ20242024-12-292025-02-13Annual FY, USD
JNJ20252025-12-282026-02-11Annual FY, USD

Inspect the business exposure

Inspect the captured screen selection and company links
  1. Investigate the business exposure

    Eli Lilly, Walmart and Johnson & Johnson were the first displayed matches. A healthcare classification can overlap with a company's other products and services. Read the descriptions, verify the qualifying business and decide whether your research needs pharmaceutical, provider or equipment exposure.

Make the selection explicit

Inspect the captured screen selection and company links

Check the filter Aurora resolves from your request. Confirm the resolved classification before treating a result as a match. Asking for profitable companies adds a financial condition; this industry-only screen does not silently claim to implement that condition.

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Healthcare stocksindustry=healthcarePublished revenue/product classification
Publicly listed universeSupported company classification catalogCheck listing status on the company profile
Review company fundamentalsCompany profile and dated daily snapshotA stored snapshot is not a live quote

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