Healthcare stocks: Better to own a basket for a healthy portfolio? 15 healthcare stocks with an upside potential of up to 33%

Four years ago, Covid brought hospital stocks to the limelight. Since then, corporate actions like mergers and takeovers have kept them in the headlines. The high interest in the healthcare sector is due to three reasons. First, many companies have been listed in the past three years; as they are doing well post-listing, more private equity money is chasing hospital assets. Second, healthcare firms are bound to grow, because average spend on healthcare will only increase with the expansion of insurance and spending by the government. Finally, they are pure domestic plays that are not impacted by Trump, cyclical slowdowns, or inflation. So are they a fit for both long term and tactical investors?