UnitedHealth Group Incorporated UNH Chief Executive

What Stephen J. Hemsley says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Stephen J. Hemsley

Stephen J. Hemsley

Chairman & CEO · UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

Appointed CEO in May 2025 after Andrew Witty stepped down; has served as board Chair since 2019 and previously as CEO from 2006-2017.

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What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
24/ 70
Level 2Aligned

Hemsley owns about 0% of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, worth $1.04B at the last close.

SEC filings
176
Stake 2.8M reported shares ≈ 0.3% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 12/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction No open-market buys or sales in the last year 5/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 176 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 2.8M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Jun 23, 2026
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2022-12-20 gift in UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC was filed 2023-01-05, 10 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported UnitedHealth Group Incorporated shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-06-23
02M4M6M 200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Jun 2026: net +47 shares across 1 movement (largest: award +46)Mar 2026: net +64 shares across 1 movement (largest: award +61)Dec 2025: net −54,945 shares across 2 movements (largest: gift −55,000)Sep 2025: net +50 shares across 1 movement (largest: award +50) 2.8M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common StockTrusts1,006,831
Common Stockby GRAT722,285
Common Stockby GRAT1477,182
Common Stockby GRAT6327,150
Common Stockby GRAT 11100,335
Common StockGRAT1260,700
Common StockGRAT1357,500
Common StockDirect48,098
Common Stockby Trust38,075
Common Stock401(k)356
Reported as of 2026-06-232,838,513
Held directly
2%
Vehicles
9 trusts or entities
Last filing
Jun 25, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 5 events folded from 5 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Jun 23, 2026 Award Grant or award +46 — —
Mar 17, 2026 Award Grant or award +61 — —
Dec 19, 2025 Gift Gift −55,000 — —
Dec 16, 2025 Award Grant or award +52 — —
Sep 23, 2025 Award Grant or award +50 — —
Every issuer Stephen J. Hemsley files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
UNH UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC This page CEO, UHG 2,838,513
2026-06-23		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

176 filings under CIK 0001180162 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Jul 16, 2026 Hemsley argued that the recovery is a matter of discipline rather than luck: pricing, benefit design and market actions taken over the previous twelve months produced 55% operating-earnings growth and a raised full-year guide, and he pointed to the same disciplines "taking hold in each of our businesses" as the reason it should persist. He was candid that commercial cost trend is still running against the company while Medicare has come in better than planned. Pressed on whether the company still believes its long-standing 13%-16% growth target, he said he never stopped believing it and that technology, particularly AI applied as "the operating infrastructure of the future", could make it easier to reach than it has been in the past. He closed on tone rather than numbers, promising the company would stay "restless and urgent". Read the call · 6 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

1 recorded appearance

2026

Talk U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means · Jan 22, 2026

Testimony of Stephen J. Hemsley, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, UnitedHealth Group

Hemsley opened with an apology for the state of the health system, said UnitedHealth negotiated nearly $300B in discounts for customers last year, and put forward eight policy asks including broader consumer choice, standardized broker compensation, lower HSA thresholds and drug patent reform. He also said UnitedHealthcare would voluntarily eliminate and rebate its ACA individual-market profits for the year.

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