How is Centene (CNC) doing?

Centene is a company in the medical, healthcare plans industry, based in St. Louis, MO, worth $32.3B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Strong

Centene shares are up 70% over the past year, 47 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Distribution Top. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 94th percentile on market beat, the 77th on staying power and the 74th on business growth. It appears on 5 of our dashboards, including 2nd on “Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow?”.

$65.36+70% in a yearWorth $32.3B

Compare with MOH · ELV · UNH · HUM · CI · CVS

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

CNC against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Centene +70%, the S&P 500 +16%.

CNCS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Distribution Top

BeatingSteadyGrowingSold

A steady winner on a growing business, but volume shows more selling than buying: holders may be cashing in.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Distribution Top since Jun; Wallflower before that.

Also Distribution Top (24 in all): MUSA · FIVE · ILMN · IRDM · KLAC · FTI

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Aerospace-defense, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Defense primes and steady-demand contractors.

CNC, past year+70%1 of 41 in the group

Rest of the group−2%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Centene is +70% over the past year, against −2% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 1st of 41 in Aerospace-defense.

CNCRest of the group

Best in the groupCOKE Coca-Cola Consolidated+64%CAH Cardinal Health+51%HUM Humana+45%

Worst in the groupPSN Parsons−50%ROL Rollins−45%AXON Axon Enterprise−42%

Its closest rivalsMOH Molina Healthcare−3%ELV Elevance Health+14%UNH UnitedHealth+3%HUM Humana+45%CI Cigna−8%

Aerospace-defense on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Centene typically moves 3.3% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 71% of large US stocks.

Typical day3.3%about $2.14 a share

Its usual3.8%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5003.4×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±6.6%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−33%now 6% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks54%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.4

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.81%

CNC on our dashboards

Every question where Centene appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CNC highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Where are analysts raising estimates? Earnings	93Raised	34 of 60	Change, 1M +1.4% · Change, 3M +39.2% · Next-year EPS $4.87
Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks	81Excellent	29 of 60	Pressure 28 · 1Y +70%
Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks	91Ahead	48 of 60	3M −9 pts · 1Y +51 pts · Rivals MOH, ELV, UNH, HUM
Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow? Value	100Cheap	2 of 60	Cash yield 29.2% · Price / FCF 3.4× · Cash margin 5%
Which stocks trade below book value? Value	91Near book	43 of 60	P/B 1.36x · Return on equity −23% · Book value $22.6B

Go deeper on Stox

CNC’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see CNC’s full profile on Stox.

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