Growth Metrics

Centene (CNC) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Centene has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.26% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.26% for Q4 2025, down 33.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.26% (down 33.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.18%, down 24.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.26% at Centene, roughly flat from 0.26% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for CNC hit a ceiling of 0.08% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 0.26% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.06% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.03%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: grew 4bps in 2021 and later plummeted -34bps in 2025.
  • Centene's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.04% in 2021, then tumbled by -34bps to 0.02% in 2022, then soared by 167bps to 0.06% in 2023, then increased by 7bps to 0.07% in 2024, then tumbled by -482bps to 0.26% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.26% (Q4 2025), 0.26% (Q3 2025), and 0.05% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.