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 April 21, 2026, CNC stock price climbed to $39.14 with 3,280,562 million shares trading.

CNC has a beta of 0.85, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CNC has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CNC has a market cap of $19.25 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, IVV, SPY, VB.

CNC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -32.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +38.4%. In the last 3 month period, CNC fell short of the market, returning -13.5%, while SPY returned +3.0%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks CNC has outperformed the stock market by returning +7.8%, while SPY returned +6.8%.

CNC support price is $37.26 and resistance is $39.36 (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.