UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH) Barclays 28th Annual Global Healthcare Conference March 9, 2026 8:00 PM EDT
Company Participants
Patrick Conway – Chief Executive Officer
Julia Murphy – Vice President of Investor Relations
Wayne DeVeydt – Chief Financial Officer
Bobby Hunter – CEO of Government Programs & Head of Medicare Insurance
Conference Call Participants
Andrew Mok – Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Presentation
Andrew Mok
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Great. Welcome back to the Barclays Global Healthcare Conference. My name is Andrew Mok. I’m the facilities and managed care analyst here at Barclays, and we’re pleased to welcome back UnitedHealthcare to the conference. Welcome.
Patrick Conway
Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Andrew Mok
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
With me on stage, I have Wayne DeVeydt, CFO; Patrick Conway, CEO of Optum; Bobby Hunter, CEO of Government Programs; and Julia Murphy, Vice President of Investor Relations. Julia, why don’t I kick it to you for opening comments?
Julia Murphy
Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you. [indiscernible].
Question-and-Answer Session
Andrew Mok
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Great. To kick things off, Wayne, as you look at the first few months of the year, how is performance tracking relative to expectations across your major business lines?
Wayne DeVeydt
Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So maybe to start off and just kind of anchor everybody in the audience. As a reminder, we guided for greater than 8.5% growth for the year. I think it’s fair to say our guidance was both prudent and hopefully conservative. We took a view that we would grow across all of our lines of business this year. We’re 2 months in. It’s early, as you know, and 2 months isn’t a trend necessarily. But I would say that we’re encouraged with our strategy. We’re encouraged with our pricing and product design. And I would say things are lining up very nicely with the expectations we
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