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NYSE · Hospital & Medical Service Plans · CIK 0001071739
$67.04
+3.54% · delayed 15 min
$32.97B market value
What this company does
CENTENE sells insurance. It took in $174.58B last year, which makes it a very large company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 4 cents on every dollar of sales.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From CENTENE CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K
Improved: +20.0%
$145.50B to $174.58B
Deteriorated: turned negative
$3.31B to -$6.67B
Deteriorated: −3.6 pts
11.7% to
Day-to-day operations generate real cash, not just accounting profit.
$5.09B cash from operations
Sales are growing quickly.
up 20.0% on last year
It loses money, so it depends on cash reserves or new funding to keep going.
$6.67B lost last year
It keeps less of each sale as profit than it did a year ago.
2.3% → -3.8%
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 2.7% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $6.67B last year, losing about 4 cents on every dollar of sales.
What it earns, what it keeps, and what it costs to run — all from the same filing
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it lost $6.67B and generated $5.09B of cash from operations.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Nothing recent
No insider trades, pending-sale notices or 5% stake filings from CNC in the last few months. That is the ordinary case, not a gap.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to one of these filings.
Straight from SEC EDGAR — the original source for every figure above
| Filing | Filed | Covers to |
|---|---|---|
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-08-17 | 2026-08-12 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-07-29 | 2026-07-29 |
Financial figures are from CNC's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −6.1 pts
2.3% to -3.8%
Improved: turned positive
-$490.0M to $4.32B
Improved: -5.8%
$18.42B to $17.35B
Improved: +27.2%
$14.06B to $17.89B
Changed: +19.1%
$644.0M to $767.0M
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Yes, quickly. Sales grew 20.0% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.35 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
It has no profits to compare a price against, because it lost money last year.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
At a glance
Reported annual figures
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-07-28 | 2026-07-28 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-07-28 | 2026-06-30 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-06-22 | 2026-06-19 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-05-15 | 2026-05-12 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-28 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-04-28 | 2026-03-31 |
| Shareholder voting information(DEF 14A) | 2026-03-26 | 2026-05-12 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-03-24 | 2026-03-18 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-03-10 | 2026-03-10 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-02-23 | 2026-02-23 |
| Annual report(10-K) | 2026-02-17 | 2025-12-31 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-02-06 | 2026-02-06 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-11-10 | 2025-11-10 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-29 | 2025-10-29 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-10-29 | 2025-09-30 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-09-11 | 2025-09-11 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-08-15 | 2025-08-12 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-08-04 | 2025-08-01 |
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