CNC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Centene | NYSE:CNC)

Centene is a managed care organization that focuses on government-sponsored healthcare plans, including Medicaid, Medicare, and the individual exchanges. Centene served 20 million medical members as of December 2025, mostly in Medicaid (about 64% of membership), the individual exchanges (about 28%), and Medicare (about 5%). The company also provides Medicare Part D pharmaceutical plans.

Centene trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol CNC.

As of October 13, 2026, CNC stock price climbed to $68.86 with 4,766,472 million shares trading.

CNC has a beta of 1.19, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. CNC has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CNC has a market cap of $34.00 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Centene reported $54 billion in Revenue and $2.51 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $6 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.49.

In the last 3 years, CNC traded as high as $81.42 and as low as $25.08.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CNC belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VFLO.

CNC has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +92.6% while the SPY ETF gained +18.5%. However, in the short term, CNC had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +2.2% vs +4.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CNC shares have fared better than the market returning +10.1% compared to SPY +1.8%.

CNC support price is $65.53 and resistance is $68.51 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CNC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.