UnitedHealth, Ardagh Metal Packaging, Nvidia And More: CNBC’s ‘Final Trades’

On CNBC’s “ Halftime Report Final Trades,”Short Hills Capital Partners’ Stephen Weiss named UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE: UNH ) as his final trade.

Lending support to his choice, UnitedHealth, on July 16, reported better-than-expected second-quarter results and raised its full-year 2026 earnings guidance.

Adjusted earnings came in at $6.38 per share, topping the analyst consensus estimate of $4.86.

Revenue increased to $112.03 billion from $111.62 billion a year earlier and exceeded Wall Street expectations of $110.83 billion.

Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, chief executive officer of Gilman Hill Asset Management, LLC, said Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. (NYSE: AMBP ) has an 8.5% yield.

Wells Fargo analyst Gabe Hajde, on July 15, maintained Ardagh Metal Packaging with an Equal-Weight rating and raised the price target from $4 to $5.

Don’t forget to check out our premarket coverage here Liz Young Thomas, SoFi head of investment strategy, picked Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (NYSE: RSP ) Joseph M.

Terranova, senior managing director for Virtus Investment Partners, recommended NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA ).

According to recent news, NVIDIA expanded its NVIDIA Agent Toolkit by adding Omniverse libraries that help AI agents prepare 3D content for physical AI simulations.

Announced at SIGGRAPH on Monday, the update adds tools for RTX sensor simulation, GPU-accelerated physics and simulation-ready asset validation, with the libraries now available on GitHub.

Price Action Ardagh Metal Packaging shares gained 0.4% to close at $4.71 on Wednesday.

UnitedHealth Group shares fell 1.2% to settle at $431.31 during the session.

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF slipped 0.03% on Wednesday.

Nvidia shares gained 2.3% to close at $212.06 during the session.

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