UnitedHealth Is One of the Worst S&P 500 Stocks In 2025. Here's Why It's Having an Even Bigger Impact on the Dow Jones.

Healthcare insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has seen its stock go from a stable stalwart to a falling knife, seemingly overnight. The stock's price crashed 22.4% on April 17 in response to its first-quarter earnings results and full-year guidance cut. Then on Tuesday, UnitedHealth fell 17.8% in a single session after its CEO stepped down and the company removed its full-year guidance.The sell-off has pushed shares of UnitedHealth down to around their lowest level in five years. The dividend stock has tumbled 38.5% year to date -- close to Moderna, which is down 42% and the worst-performing company in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) in 2025 (so far). Here's why UnitedHealth has gone from bad to worse, and why its drop is impacting the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) even more than it is the S&P 500.Continue reading

May 16, 2025 - 09:47

UnitedHealth Is One of the Worst S&P 500 Stocks In 2025. Here's Why It's Having an Even Bigger Impact on the Dow Jones.

Healthcare insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has seen its stock go from a stable stalwart to a falling knife, seemingly overnight. The stock's price crashed 22.4% on April 17 in response to its first-quarter earnings results and full-year guidance cut. Then on Tuesday, UnitedHealth fell 17.8% in a single session after its CEO stepped down and the company removed its full-year guidance.

The sell-off has pushed shares of UnitedHealth down to around their lowest level in five years. The dividend stock has tumbled 38.5% year to date -- close to Moderna, which is down 42% and the worst-performing company in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) in 2025 (so far).

Here's why UnitedHealth has gone from bad to worse, and why its drop is impacting the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) even more than it is the S&P 500.