CNCCentene Corporation
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain, heavy debt (BB), and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Mixed fundamental signals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Insiders were net sellers (-$6.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -74% · now 6% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can CNC take a bad year?
Centene Corporation holds $11.0B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 2.75
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $16.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $27.1B
- Net cash
- $11.0B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$4.72B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$5.64B
- Debt / equity
- 0.71×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 52%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −74%
- Below its 52-week high
- 5.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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