UnitedHealth Group expects its 2025 adjusted profit to be as much as $30 per share, CEO Andrew Witty said on Tuesday, setting the upper end of the health insurer's forecast below Wall Street estimates.

UnitedHealth Group reported $6 billion in third quarter earnings that helped overcome costs of a cyberattack earlier this year.

UnitedHealth’s stock was having its worst day in more than four years on Tuesday, after the healthcare giant beat third-quarter profit and revenue expectations but missed on medical-care profitability and lowered its full-year outlook.

The company also trimmed the higher end of its 2024 adjusted profit forecast by 25 cents to $27.75 per share, partially due to a hit of 10 cents per share related to the February cyberattack on UnitedHealth's technology unit, Change Healthcare.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. narrowed its profit outlook for the year, lowering the top end of its forecast as medical costs in the third quarter exceeded Wall Street expectations.

The healthcare-services company’s result for the fourth quarter of 2023 sparked a sell-off from which the managed-care sector has yet to recover.