Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Today’s Big News: UnitedHealthcare Tanking 5-13-25
Tue, 13 May 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker discusses UnitedHealth Group’s sharp 16% stock decline following the surprise resignation of CEO Andrew Witty, raising concerns about the company’s future amid ongoing market volatility.
Chapter 1: What caused UnitedHealthcare’s stock to plunge 16%?
Chapter 2: Who is Andrew Witty and why is his resignation surprising?
This is Scott Becker with a special episode of the Becker Private Equity and Becker's Healthcare podcast. Today's big news is UnitedHealthcare tanking UnitedHealthcare plunged today as their CEO, Andrew Witte, stepped down as a surprise announcement. Andrew Witte largely has been really well thought of. United's down 16% today. It's down 38% year to date.
Chapter 3: How significant is UnitedHealthcare in the national healthcare market?
Chapter 4: What concerns arise from UnitedHealthcare’s stock decline year to date?
It's one of the huge juggernauts in terms of the nation. It's one of the fifth largest companies by sales and revenues in the nation. It's grown to have a huge insurance footprint, a huge provider footprint. And when you see it down 16% in a single day, down 36% for the year, you do start to have concern about what's going on with UnitedHealthcare.
Again, they've decided they're not giving guidance for the next quarter. Their CEO, Andrew Witte, hugely well regarded, stepped down unexpectedly. We'll keep an eye out on what's going on with UnitedHealthcare. Again, special news alert, UnitedHealthcare down 16%. Andrew Witte steps down. We'll see how this plays out.
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