Until now, 2025 has been everything less soft for UnitedHealth Group.
The health giant announced Tuesday that Andrew Witty will resign as CEO due to “personal reasons.” It is replaced by Stephen J. Hemsley, who served as CEO of the company from 2006 to 2017. Hemsley Willin as president of the UHG Board of Directors, and Witty will be Hemsley.
“Leading the people of United Group has been a great honor while working every day to improve the health system, and continue to inspire me,” Witty said in a statement.
The company also announced that it has suspended its 2025 perspective “as the attention activity continued to accelerate while expanding more benefits offers than those seen in the first quarter, and the medical costs of many beneficiary beneficiaries benefited by beneficial benefits of Medicare.
United Group rejected Medcity News request to make more comments.
After the announcement, the company’s shares fell in almost 18%. This happens only one week after the company reduced its annual prognosis due to a disappointing performance of the first quarter, and only months after the CEO of Unitedhealthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot dead in December.
How do social networks react to the CEO departure and the fall of actions? It can be reduced to three cubes:
Is it really for personal reasons?
Some people question what it really means to leave for “personal reasons.”
“While” personal reasons “is the reason offered for Andrew Witty’s departure, the suspension of the orientation would suggest that his departure has more to do with the personal reasons of the Board instead of the boss,” said Dylan Consultant, in Boldsare.
Jones added that those who were part of the “leadership bank of the ingenious era” can now be questioning their own future in the company.
Jones is not just suspecting that Witty was probably expelled instead of voluntarily renouncing.
“Here we show how to be fired from the world’s largest medical care company:
- Price of 9% shares since he assumed the paper
- 47% sharing price in a month, “said Preston Alexander, author of The Healthcare Breakdown, a medical care newsletter, on LinkedIn.
A purchase opportunity
UnitedHealth Group, without a doubt, faces short -term challenges due to its main cyber attack, lost profits and regulatory scrutiny. However, a person in X believes that thesis problems are temporary and considers that this is a purchase opportunity.
“According to each model and data point that I have reviewed, nothing suggests that this is a permanently broken business … I can get early. The action could fall more in the short term. But I am not trying to have a quality of time. Try and buy hate and buy hate and buy hate hated and bought hated and buying hated and bought hate and purchase. This feels like one of those times.
Another investor called UnitedHealth one of the best medical care actions.
“All its short -term incidents in the past will soon fade,” said @Goodwilltrader in X. “Super shares will always recover. I have 100% confidence in this long -term investment. 39% little valued and moving monthly support with the temporal cycle.”
Is this deserved?
While some see this as a purchase opportunity, others argue that United Group deserves their struggles.
“I hope UnitedHealth continues to fall.
Teedee144 is the only one to think about this.
“My company uses UHC and they are the absolute sausage health insurance with which I have treated,” said Lion27 in Reddit. “Unless he is making a payment, everything is as difficult as possible and deny everything. I changed to a family plan with my wife from Aetna when Ann First Baby was born and they have a big toy.
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