Centene is a healthcare plans business based in the US. Centene shares (CNC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $59.10 – an increase of 0.72% over the previous week. Centene employs 67,700 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $146.2 billion.
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| Latest market close | $59.10 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $57.25 - $81.42 |
| 50-day moving average | $68.33 |
| 200-day moving average | $72.66 |
| Wall St. target price | $82.89 |
| PE ratio | 10.134 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $5.67 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $57.81 from 2024-11-19
| 1 week (2024-11-13) | -0.40% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-10-18) | -6.79% |
| 3 months (2024-08-20) | -26.04% |
| 6 months (2024-05-20) | -25.47% |
| 1 year (2023-11-20) | -20.55% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-11-18) | -30.08% |
| 3 years (2021-11-19) | 73.01 |
| 5 years (2019-11-20) | 59.46 |
Valuing Centene stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Centene's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Centene's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 10x. In other words, Centene shares trade at around 10x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Centene's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.5995. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Centene's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Centene's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $5.9 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Centene's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $146.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 2.96% |
| Gross profit TTM | $24.5 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 3.51% |
| Return on equity TTM | 11.56% |
| Profit margin | 2.1% |
| Book value | $53.54 |
| Market Capitalization | $29.6 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Centene to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Centene's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 6 February 2019 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Centene shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Centene shares which in turn could have impacted Centene's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Centene's shares have ranged in value from as little as $57.25 up to $81.415. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Centene's is 0.493. This would suggest that Centene's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Centene Corporation operates as a healthcare enterprise that provides programs and services to under-insured and uninsured families, commercial organizations, and military families in the United States. The company operates through Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Other segments. The Medicaid segment offers health plan coverage, including medicaid expansion, aged, blind, disabled, children's health insurance program, foster care, medicare-medicaid plans, long-term services and support. This segment also provides healthcare products. The Medicare segment offers special needs and medicare supplement, and prescription drug plans. The Commercial segment provides health insurance marketplace product for individual, small, and large group commercials. It also operates clinical healthcare and pharmacies, as well as offers dental and speech therapy services.
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