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Healthcare Sector

Healthcare combines pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, care providers, health insurers, and health-information services. It is home to names like Eli Lilly, UnitedHealth, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck. The sector blends growth and defensive traits — demand for treatment and medicine stays relatively steady across cycles, with strong innovation catalysts in drugs and gene therapy. On this page we rank the best US healthcare stocks by the EL7 Score and compare them across value, growth, quality, safety, and capital-return factors.

EL7 Score

71Balanced

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P/E 21.5 vs period average 20.5 Richer than its history

Total stocks1048

Total Market Cap$8.8T

Median P/E21.5x

Median Net Margin-24.3%

Value

Growth

AI Sector Summary

2026-08-06

The healthcare sector ranks fifth among sectors with a score of 70.58, featuring strong operational quality of 77.18 and good safety levels, despite the weak attractiveness of price valuation, which recorded 38.61. With the sector's median price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio reaching 21.52, the sector currently exhibits positive market momentum and sentiment, with stocks such as JNJ and VXRT standing out as the top-performing companies according to the platform's ranking.

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Best Stocks in Healthcare

Ranked among 257 stocks with a market cap above $2B. Smaller companies are excluded from the ranking.

Rank	Company	Price	Change	P/E	Fwd P/E	Value	Growth	Quality	Safety	Capital Return	EL7 Score
1/257	JNJJohnson & Johnson	$256.47	-0.2%	29.8	21.3	100	0	100	100	85	100
2/257	HRMYHarmony Biosciences	$38.78	+0.1%	12.5	10.3	94	72	94	88	77	100
3/257	AUPHAurinia	$15.92	-1.3%	7.0	14.3	86	86	87	92	74	99
4/257	INCYIncyte	$120.61	+1.9%	14.8	14.4	86	73	95	96	60	99
5/257	ARGXargenx	$870.89	-0.5%	44.6	27.0	30	98	98	95	50	99
6/257	OSCROscar Health	$27.47	+3.5%	17.1	25.3	89	97	93	79	29	98
7/257	NVSTEnvista	$28.32	+3.4%	47.2	18.7	71	58	81	81	94	98
8/257	EXELExelixis	$53.98	+3.4%	16.1	14.3	81	79	99	81	41	98
9/257	GSKGSK	$52.86	+1.3%	14.8	10.6	92	61	88	71	79	97
10/257	UTHRUnited Therapeutics	$531.72	-0.2%	18.7	17.6	70	58	90	96	82	97

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Score = market-cap-weighted percentile rank of the sector stocks vs the whole market (0-100). Higher = stronger.

Industries in Healthcare

ETFs with exposure to this sector

Funds that track the sector and each fund's exposure to it.

Fund	Exposure	Assets	Expense	Holdings
IBBiShares Biotechnology ETF	100.0%	$9B	0.44%	247
VHTVanguard Health Care ETF	100.0%	$20B	0.09%	411
IHIiShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF	99.7%	$3B	0.37%	46
XLVState Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF	99.4%	$43B	0.08%	60

The percentage is the sector's share of the fund's assets, per the latest available data.

Best Stocks in Healthcare

Industries in Healthcare

Sector performance via XLV