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CNC Centene Corp.

Healthcare

quality needs a look, discounted valuation.

Quality
Weak
Valuation
Cheaper
Key signals
52-week adjusted-price high Top-quintile 6-month momentum
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Is Centene Corp. a buy? Fundamentals and valuation first

  • Quality is weaker than peers. Operating margin is only around the 31th percentile. TTM ROE is about -22.6%.

  • Valuation is cheaper than most peers. TTM P/E is in the 20th percentile, lower than most liquid US common stocks.

  • Recent volatility is moderate. 60-day annualized volatility is near the 42th percentile. Average 20-day dollar volume is about $264.2M.

  • Signals are active now. 52-week adjusted-price high, Top-quintile 6-month momentum currently holds; the tables below show what followed in this stock’s own history.

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Historical evidence

Signals active now

Each active condition is tested against this stock’s own history and benchmarked versus the S&P 500.

52-week adjusted-price high

Active

Adjusted close first reaches a 252-trading-day high; repeated hits within 20 days count once.

24 historical occurrences (since 2017-05-02)
Average forward return after 52-week adjusted-price high。20-day: Win 34.8%, Sample 23, Median -1.19%, Excess -1.74%, Beat mkt rate 43.5%；60-day: Win 54.5%, Sample 22, Median +2.04%, Excess +0.69%, Beat mkt rate 54.5%；120-day: Win 66.7%, Sample 21, Median +8.92%, Excess +4.69%, Beat mkt rate 71.4%

120 days after: historical avg +7.88%

20-day -0.68%
60-day +1.11%
120-day +7.88%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
34.8%
54.5%
66.7%
Sample
23
22
21
Median
-1.19%
+2.04%
+8.92%
Excess
-1.74%
+0.69%
+4.69%
Beat mkt rate
43.5%
54.5%
71.4%

Over 21 occurrences, 120-day forward avg gained 7.88%, beat the market by 4.69 pts; win rate 66.7%.

Top-quintile 6-month momentum

Active · now 95.25423728813558%

The stock ranks in the top 20% of the liquid US common-stock universe by 126-day adjusted return.

16 historical occurrences (since 2017-05-12)
Average forward return after Top-quintile 6-month momentum。20-day: Win 68.8%, Sample 16, Median +3.21%, Excess +1.95%, Beat mkt rate 68.8%；60-day: Win 50%, Sample 16, Median +0.29%, Excess +1.43%, Beat mkt rate 56.2%；120-day: Win 66.7%, Sample 15, Median +17.12%, Excess +2.81%, Beat mkt rate 60%

120 days after: historical avg +8.43%

20-day +3.53%
60-day +2.59%
120-day +8.43%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
68.8%
50%
66.7%
Sample
16
16
15
Median
+3.21%
+0.29%
+17.12%
Excess
+1.95%
+1.43%
+2.81%
Beat mkt rate
68.8%
56.2%
60%

Over 15 occurrences, 120-day forward avg gained 8.43%, beat the market by 2.81 pts; win rate 66.7%.

Valuation regime and forward returns

Daily TTM P/E is converted into an expanding own-history percentile, then grouped into five valuation regimes. Forward returns use adjusted prices over the next 240 trading days.

PE percentile bandSample days240-day avg returnMedianWin rateAvg excess (vs index)
0-20 You are here455-9.4% -14.8% 43.5% -27.2%
20-40 50+15.7% +12.6% 90% -11.4%
40-60 97+11.9% +5.5% 76.3% -7.1%
60-80 239-5.3% -6.6% 37.7% -25.4%
80-100 335+4.4% +3.8% 59.7% +1%

Quarterly EPS is aligned by SEC filing date before it is forward-filled to daily prices. The expanding percentile uses only information available up to each day.

Current TTM P/E is about 8.22, placing it in the 3.2 own-history percentile, inside the 0-20 bucket.

Valuation × momentum analogs

Each historical day is grouped by own-history P/E tercile and 60-day momentum direction, then tested for the next 120-trading-day adjusted return.

Valuation
Momentum
Cheap (own-history bottom third)
Middle
Expensive (own-history top third)
60-day momentum up
Now
-4.7%
Win rate 50.4% Excess -16.5%
337d
-7.7%
Win rate 7.9% Excess -19.5%
63d
-0.1%
Win rate 52.1% Excess +1%
290d
60-day momentum down
-8.8%
Win rate 38.5% Excess -21.2%
270d
-4.1%
Win rate 30.9% Excess -14.9%
110d
+5.9%
Win rate 61% Excess +0.7%
218d

Currently in “Cheap (own-history bottom third) × 60-day momentum up”: across 337 historical days, 120-day forward avg declined 4.7%, win rate 50.4%, lagged the market by 16.5%.

Days = trading days in this bucket; returns use adjusted prices, ex-costs. 60-day momentum: direction of this stock's price over the past 60 trading days.

Market-wide momentum baseline

Across 98,524 liquid US common-stock samples, top-quintile 6-month momentum was followed by an average 60-trading-day return of +6.12%, a 57.9% positive-return rate, and +2.77 percentage points of average excess return versus the S&P 500.

Baseline: weekly samples since 2016 where a liquid US common stock ranked in the top quintile by 126-trading-day momentum. Forward return is 60 trading days; excess return is versus S&P 500 (^GSPC).

Signals not active now

Inactive signals still show the stock-specific historical forward-return distribution for context.

Filed revenue acceleration

Pending

TTM revenue growth is at least 10% and improved versus the prior filed quarter; event date is the SEC filing date.

14 times historically; 60-day forward avg +5.26%, win rate 64.3%, beating the market by +2.12 pts on average.

EPS surprise beat

Pending

Reported EPS beat consensus estimate by at least 5%; event date is the earnings-surprise timestamp.

23 times historically; 60-day forward avg +3.13%, win rate 63.2%, beating the market by -1.53 pts on average.

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Method and limits

  • Returns use us_price:adj_close, adjusted for splits and dividends where available.
  • Excess returns use world_index:^GSPC as the S&P 500 benchmark proxy.
  • Quarterly fundamentals are aligned to SEC filing dates before daily valuation studies.
  • The promoted universe starts from active NYSE/NASDAQ common stocks, then applies price and dollar-volume gates.
  • Snapshot-only tables such as analyst consensus, DCF, us_ratios, and us_key_metrics are intentionally excluded from historical evidence.
  • Overlapping event windows are descriptive distributions, not independent samples.

This page is for historical data analysis and education only. It is not investment advice. Backtests and historical return distributions do not predict future performance; evaluate risk independently before trading.