{"id":1728,"date":"2024-08-20T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/the-best-healthcare-stocks-to-buy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T08:00:15","slug":"the-best-healthcare-stocks-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/the-best-healthcare-stocks-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Healthcare Stocks to Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody text\">\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">So far in 2024, healthcare stocks continue to run slightly behind the broader market: The <a href=\"https:\/\/indexes.morningstar.com\/indexes\/details\/morningstar-us-healthcare-FSUSA0B58E?tab=performance\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\">Morningstar US Healthcare Index<\/a> has returned about 8.55% this year, versus 9.72% for the broad-based <a href=\"https:\/\/indexes.morningstar.com\/indexes\/details\/morningstar-us-market-FSUSA00KGP?currency=USD&amp;variant=TR&amp;tab=performance\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\">Morningstar US Market Index<\/a> as of Aug. 7. However, healthcare stocks have significantly outperformed the market during the past month on investor fears about a recession. Healthcare stocks are considered defensive, which suggests they could hold up better than some other sectors during an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">Morningstar director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/people\/damien-conover\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\">Damien Conover<\/a> finds solidity in the healthcare sector. \u201cDespite other sectors having more dependency on stable or growing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/stocks\/best-healthcare-stocks-buy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far in 2024, healthcare stocks continue to run slightly behind the broader market: The Morningstar US Healthcare Index has returned about 8.55% this year, versus 9.72% for the broad-based Morningstar US Market Index as of Aug. 7. However, healthcare stocks have significantly outperformed the market during the past month on investor fears about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}