Health insurance company UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what you need to know.

UnitedHealth beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $111.7 billion, up 2% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting UnitedHealth’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 12.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. UnitedHealth has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

With UnitedHealth being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unfold for healthcare providers & services stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 7.6% on average over the last month. UnitedHealth is up 3.5% during the same time .

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