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Centene Corporation (CNC) vs Elevance Health, Inc. (ELV)

Centene Corporation and Elevance Health, Inc. are both Healthcare Plans companies. Elevance Health, Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $93.3B against $36.7B — 2.5× the size. Elevance Health, Inc. trades at the lower P/E: 18.2× against 23.5×. Centene Corporation grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 9.71% against 3.60%. Elevance Health, Inc. has the higher net margin (2.55% vs 0.72%) and the higher return on invested capital (12.8% vs 4.42%). Across the 22 metrics below, Elevance Health, Inc. leads on 15 and Centene Corporation on 7.

Valuation

Metric CNC ELV Healthcare Plans median
P/E 23.48 18.17 22.50
P/S 0.17 0.46 0.40
P/B 1.55 2.06 2.77
Price to free cash flow 8.73 14.16 14.76
EV/EBITDA 11.81 9.27 12.61
EV/Sales 0.13 0.42 0.36
Earnings yield 4.26% 5.50% 3.79%
Free cash flow yield 11.45% 7.06% 6.62%

Profitability

Metric CNC ELV Healthcare Plans median
Gross margin 7.78% 15.47% 19.35%
Operating margin 0.49% 3.81% 2.48%
Net margin 0.72% 2.55% 1.45%
Free cash flow margin 1.93% 3.23% 3.26%
Return on equity 6.74% 11.56% 13.58%
Return on assets 1.81% 4.10% 3.11%
Return on invested capital 4.42% 12.76% 5.93%

Growth

Metric CNC ELV Healthcare Plans median
Revenue growth (TTM) 9.71% 3.60% 6.77%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (314.42%) (1.83%) (8.27%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 11.88% 10.32% 11.88%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% 4.37% 0.00%

Health

Metric CNC ELV Healthcare Plans median
Debt to equity 0.70 0.69 0.67
Current ratio 1.16 1.47 1.32
Net debt to EBITDA 0.46 (0.44) 0.05

Dividend

Metric CNC ELV Healthcare Plans median
Dividend yield — 1.61% 2.11%
Payout ratio — 0.29 0.31

Size

Metric CNC ELV Healthcare Plans median
Market cap 36.72b 93.34b 24.02b

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