CNC

Centene Corporation ·NYSE·Healthcare
67.07 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Structural Score: displayed 0, underlying value -8.2
31.0%
Brown Bear Score
6.7%
Business Conviction Score
54.0%
Position Health Score
30.9%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +156.3% · range 26.17–68.72

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 5.6%
OCF / assets 6.6%
FCF / revenue 2.6%
Gross margin 11.4%
ROIC -15.1%
Forward P/E 12.7

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Trailing EPS is negative (-10.36), so a growth percentage does not exist — forward EPS of 5.30 implies a swing from loss to profit

Confidence 35.0/100

Takeaway Low data confidence (limited analyst coverage) — treat this section as informational only.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-27 before the open · consensus EPS 0.10

Q3 23 revenue: 34.97bnQ3 23 net income: 469.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.87Q4 23 revenue: 35.34bnQ4 23 net income: 45.00mQ4 23 EPS: 0.08Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 36.34bnQ1 24 net income: 1.16bnQ1 24 EPS: 2.16Q2 24 revenue: 35.97bnQ2 24 net income: 1.15bnQ2 24 EPS: 2.16Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 36.90bnQ3 24 net income: 713.00mQ3 24 EPS: 1.36Q4 24 revenue: 36.30bnQ4 24 net income: 283.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.54Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 42.49bnQ1 25 net income: 1.31bnQ1 25 EPS: 2.63Q2 25 revenue: 42.47bnQ2 25 net income: -253.00mQ2 25 EPS: -0.51Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 44.90bnQ3 25 net income: -6.63bnQ3 25 EPS: -13.50Q4 25 revenue: 44.73bnQ4 25 net income: -1.10bnQ4 25 EPS: -2.23Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 44.66bnQ1 26 net income: 1.54bnQ1 26 EPS: 3.11Q2 26 revenue: 44.38bnQ2 26 net income: 1.09bnQ2 26 EPS: 2.19Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-13.50–3.11, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-06-30 44.38bn +4.5% 1.09bn 2.19 2.51 +129.0% 2026-07-28
2026-03-31 44.66bn +5.1% 1.54bn 3.11 3.37 +56.4% 2026-04-28
2025-12-31 (derived) 44.73bn +23.2% -1.10bn -2.23 -1.19 +3.7% 2026-02-17
2025-09-30 44.90bn +21.7% -6.63bn -13.50 0.50 +454.9% 2025-10-29

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.2%
On an ordinary two days ±1.5% — filings move it 2.1× as much
Direction 6 up, 6 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +10.5% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-25: price +11.9%Q1 23 revenue +2.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-25: price -1.5%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +2.6% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-28: price -2.7%Q3 23 revenue +3.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-24: price -3.0%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +4.0% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-26: price -2.4%Q2 24 revenue +3.3% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-26: price +9.0%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +5.5% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-25: price +0.0%Q1 25 revenue +16.9% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-25: price -3.4%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +18.1% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-25: price +0.4%Q3 25 revenue +21.7% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-29: price +5.5%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +5.1% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-28: price +24.1%Q2 26 revenue +4.5% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-28: price -3.5%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-06-30 2026-07-28 +4.5% -3.5%
2026-03-31 2026-04-28 +5.1% +24.1% +3.1%
2025-09-30 2025-10-29 +21.7% +5.5% +11.8%
2025-06-30 2025-07-25 +18.1% +0.4% +7.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 497.6M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year +0.8%
Change over 3 years -9.6%
Public float $26.70bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 66.06 — 67.74
Protective stop 61.83 (Structure, 7.6% risk)
Support 63.37 (3 touches, 5.8% away)
Resistance 68.72 (2.5% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 2.5% below 68.72, where sellers have turned up before, and 5.8% above 63.37, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 7.6% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 5/15/30 (58% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL (fresh up cross, 5d ago) | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness32% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 63.02 to 64.26. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -2.4%
63 days +13.1%
126 days +69.3%
252 days +165.6%
Below 252d high2.4%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width11.4% of price
Recent tightest11.2% (1 sessions ago, narrower than 93.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.02×
Band 60.96 — 68.34

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 11% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 93% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 60.84–68.722026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

CNC: no binary-event flag. Near IV 40%, far IV 40% (ratio 1.00), implied move 5.0%.

Implied volatility 40% near (9d) · 40% far (65d)
Term structure 1.00× near/far
Historical volatility 44%
Implied vs historical 0.91×
Implied move ±5.0% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.36×
Skew Put Skew (1.20×)
Call wall 80.00 (+19.3% away)
Put wall 62.50 (-6.8% away)
Gamma pin 65.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 5.0% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Early Stock Rotation

Rotation health 71.5/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 71.5
Rotation strength 82.9
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 93.9 120.0
Stock vs SPY Improving 90.5 120.4
Sector vs SPY Improving 86.4 102.1

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 2.6% (+0.8)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.153) (+3.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.04 -> -0.15) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.21) (+5.0)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+18.0)
  • Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+5.0)
  • Track 2: ADX 44.4 and rising (+18.0)
  • Track 2: relative momentum rank 0.97 (+15.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 3.2% (+2.7)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 0.8% (+2.2)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram acceleration 0.33 (+4.0)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 58.6, 5-day change +0.5 (+0.4)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.00 (+0.1)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 6.6% (+5.3)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 1.5% (+3.6)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.83 (+6.6)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.48x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.04)
  • Track 2: bearish DI spread (-6.4)
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.52)
  • ROIC improving by -25.4 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: Z-Score 1.52 below the 1.8 insolvency-risk floor and structural score 0.0/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.