Centene Corp (CNC) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $54.94, with 3.94 million shares of worth about $216.7 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.43% during that period and on June 04, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.78%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 497.52M shares, out of which, 491.78M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.77% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.10%. Year-to-date (YTD), CNC shares are showing a performance of -9.31% which decreased to -23.26% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $54.01 but also hit the highest price of $80.59 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Centene Corp shares is 4.90 million. The stock is currently trading -7.02% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.66% for SMA50 and it goes to -13.30% lower than SMA200.
Centene Corp (NYSE: CNC) currently have 497.52M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 98.57% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $27.34B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.46. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 8.18, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.72 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.02 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CNC, volatility over the week remained 1.51% while standing at 2.65% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.45% while it is estimated to increase by 9.09% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.03% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 14.96% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Barclays on June 02, 2025 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $65 to it. Coverage by Jefferies stated Centene Corp (CNC) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on April 08, 2025, suggesting a price target of $64 for the stock. On February 06, 2025, Argus Downgrade their recommendations, while on December 17, 2024, JP Morgan Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $75. Stock get a Buy rating from UBS on December 13, 2024.
