Growth Metrics

Centene (CNC) Net Margin (2016 - 2025)

Centene has reported Net Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 1.69% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Net Margin at 1.69% for Q4 2025, down 221.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 3.25% (down 521.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 3.43%, down 545.0%.
  • Net Margin for Q4 2025 was 1.69% at Centene, up from 14.77% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Net Margin for CNC hit a ceiling of 3.19% in Q1 2024 and a floor of 14.77% in Q3 2025.
  • Median Net Margin over the past 5 years was 1.8% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.43%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Net Margin: surged 331bps in 2023 and later tumbled -1646bps in 2025.
  • Centene's Net Margin stood at 1.94% in 2021, then tumbled by -134bps to 0.65% in 2022, then surged by 123bps to 0.15% in 2023, then soared by 241bps to 0.52% in 2024, then tumbled by -426bps to 1.69% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Net Margin were 1.69% (Q4 2025), 14.77% (Q3 2025), and 0.53% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.