Growth Metrics

Centene (CNC) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Centene has reported FCF Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.35% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put FCF Margin at 0.35% for Q4 2025, up 172.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 2.11% (up 240.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 2.22%, up 252.0%.
  • FCF Margin for Q4 2025 was 0.35% at Centene, down from 2.55% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, FCF Margin for CNC hit a ceiling of 10.4% in Q1 2023 and a floor of 5.39% in Q4 2022.
  • Median FCF Margin over the past 5 years was 2.54% (2025), compared with a mean of 2.7%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Margin: surged 955bps in 2021 and later tumbled -1207bps in 2024.
  • Centene's FCF Margin stood at 1.4% in 2021, then plummeted by -485bps to 5.39% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 100bps to 0.02% in 2023, then crashed by -5760bps to 1.38% in 2024, then soared by 125bps to 0.35% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Margin were 0.35% (Q4 2025), 2.55% (Q3 2025), and 3.24% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.