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Centene quarterly revenue rises 1.9% to $50.65 billion

Centene's revenue growth has more than halved. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 27, 2026.

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Centene's revenue growth has more than halved: revenue rose 1.9% to $50.65 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $49.69 billion a year earlier, after 9.9% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $50.65 billion, versus $49.69 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, up 1.9%. The diluted loss was $0.14 a share, versus $13.50 a year earlier.

Bar chart: Centene: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ billions by fiscal quarter end, as of Oct 27, 2026. Dec 2024 40.81; Mar 2025 46.62; Jun 2025 48.74; Sep 2025 49.69; Dec 2025 49.73; Mar 2026 49.94; Jun 2026 53.58; Sep 2026 50.65. Latest quarter $50.65B, Up 1.9% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $40.81 billion; Mar 2025: $46.62 billion; Jun 2025: $48.74 billion; Sep 2025: $49.69 billion; Dec 2025: $49.73 billion; Mar 2026: $49.94 billion; Jun 2026: $53.58 billion; Sep 2026: $50.65 billion.

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Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 21.9%; Mar 2026 up 7.1%; Jun 2026 up 9.9%; Sep 2026 up 1.9%. On those figures, Centene's revenue growth has more than halved. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$CNC adjusted close, last 6 months $CNC adjusted close, last 6 months: series rising from 53.3 to 68.7 (+28.8%) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-27. Scale 50 to 75. 505560657075 2026-05-012026-10-27 $CNC ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS +28.8% 68.71
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-10-27Indicative, not investment advice.

Sources

  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — Centene earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 27, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — Centene XBRL financial data (company facts)

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