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 March 20, 2026, CNC stock price declined to $34.78 with 1,538,830 million shares trading.

CNC has a beta of 0.22, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CNC has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CNC has a market cap of $17.10 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Centene reported $50 billion in Revenue and -$1.19 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $1 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $.04.

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, VB, VO, IVV.

CNC has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -41.3% while the SPY ETF gained +16.5%. CNC has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -10.9% and -19.6%, respectively, while the SPY returned -4.0% and -4.1%, respectively.

CNC support price is $34.57 and resistance is $36.57 (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.